blouse
French
noun
Definitions
- uniform or coat with buttons down the front
Etymology
Borrowed from Occitan lano blouso (pure short wool) derived from Old High German blōz (naked, bare) derived from Old French bliau derived from Frankish *blīfald (topcoat of scarlet colour) inherited from Latin pelusia.
Origin
Latin
pelusia
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- blouse English
- blouseless English
- blouselike English
- blousy English
- deblouse English
- downblouse English
- overblouse English
- unblouse English
- underblouse English
- pelusia Latin
- Bluse German
- Blöße German
- bloß German
- blúz Hungarian
- blúzok Hungarian
- blúzt Hungarian
- blusa Italian
- blusotto Italian
- bloes Dutch, Flemish
- doorkijkbloes Dutch, Flemish
- блуза Russian
- луза Russian
- blusa Spanish, Castilian
- bluse Norwegian Bokmål
- *blautaz Proto-Germanic
- ブラウス Japanese
- ブルーズ Japanese
- bluza Polish
- bluse Norwegian Nynorsk
- bluse Danish
- bliau Old French
- bluza Serbo-Croatian
- brusa Catalan, Valencian
- blússa Icelandic
- بلوز Persian
- blawos Cebuano
- blus Indonesian
- blows Welsh
- blōz Old High German
- bluz Turkish
- bluzla Turkish
- bluzlu Turkish
- bluzsa Turkish
- bluzsuz Turkish
- blu Vietnamese
- bloß Middle High German
- Blus Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- blouss Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- lano blouso Occitan
- 블라우스 Korean
- *blīfald Frankish
- blaus Tok Pisin
- libhulawozi Swati
- بلوزة Hijazi Arabic
- akanjo bilaozy Malagasy
- blós Kashubian
- bliaunt ONF.
- blusa Chavacano