necktie

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Etymology

From neck +‎ tie.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈnɛk.taɪ/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -ɛktaɪ

Noun

necktie (plural neckties)

A strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front.
- 1896, A. E. Housman, “Terence, this is stupid stuff”, in A Shropshire Lad:
  Oh I have been to Ludlow fair / And left my necktie God knows where / And carried half way home, or near, / Pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.

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Related terms

bowtie

Translations

strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front

Afrikaans: das (af), strop
Albanian: kravatë (sq) f, kollare (sq) f
Amharic: ክራባት (kərabat)
Arabic: رِبَاط (ar) m (ribāṭ), رَبْطَة الْعُنُق f (rabṭat al-ʕunuq), رِبَاط الْعُنُق m (ribāṭ al-ʕunuq), كَرَافَة f (karāfa), كَرَافَتَة f (karāfata)
Egyptian Arabic: جرفتّه f (garafatta)

Gulf Arabic: كرفتة f (karafitta)

Hijazi Arabic: كرفتة f (karafitta, karavitta)
Aragonese: corvata f
Armenian: փողկապ (hy) (pʻoġkap)
Asturian: corbata
Azerbaijani:
Arabic: بويون باغى (bōyūn-bāghi), کالوستوک (kalûstuk), قراوات (kıravat) (South Azerbaijani)

Roman: qalstuk (az), boyunbağı (az), kravat (az) (South Azerbaijani)
Basque: korbata
Belarusian: га́льштук (be) m (hálʹštuk), га́лстук m (hálstuk)
Bengali: নেকটাই (nekṭai)
Breton: kravatenn (br)
Bulgarian: вратовръ́зка (bg) f (vratovrǎ́zka), връ́зка (bg) f (vrǎ́zka) (colloquial)
Burmese: လည်စည်း (my) (lanycany:)
Catalan: corbata (ca) f
Cebuano: korbata
Chinese:
Cantonese: 領帶／领带 (leng⁵ daai^3-2), 呔 (taai¹)

Hakka: 領帶／领带 (liang¹ dai⁴) (Meixian, Guangdong), 拉西 (la² xi¹) (Meixian, Guangdong)

Hokkien: 領帶／领带 (zh-min-nan) (niá-tòa)

Mandarin: 領帶／领带 (zh) (lǐngdài)
Czech: vázanka (cs) f, kravata (cs) f
Danish: slips (da) n
Dutch: stropdas (nl) f, das (nl) f
Esperanto: kravato
Estonian: lips (et)
Faroese: slips n
Finnish: solmio (fi), kravatti (fi)
French: cravate (fr) f
Galician: gravata (gl) f
Georgian: ჰალსტუხი (ka) (halsṭuxi), ყლინჯი (q̇linǯi)
German: Krawatte (de) f, Schlips (de) m
Greek: γραβάτα (el) f (graváta), λαιμοδέτης (el) m (laimodétis)
Greenlandic: qilernerusaq
Gujarati: નેકટાઈ f (nekṭāī)
Haitian Creole: cravant
Hebrew: עֲנִיבָה (he) f (anivá)
Hindi: नेकटाई f (nekṭāī), टाई (hi) f (ṭāī)
Hungarian: nyakkendő (hu)
Hunsrik: Kravatt f
Icelandic: bindi n, slifsi n
Ido: kravato (io)
Indonesian: dasi (id)
Irish: carbhat
Italian: cravatta (it) f
Japanese: ネクタイ (ja) (nekutai)
Karelian: galstukku
Kazakh: галстук (galstuk)
Khmer: ក្រាវាត់ (kraavat), ក្រវាត់ក (km) (krɑvat kɑɑ), ក្រវាត់ (km) (krɑvat)
Korean: 넥타이 (ko) (nektai), 갈쓰뚝 (galsseuttuk) (Koryo-mar)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: بۆینباغ (boyinbaẍ)

Northern Kurdish: boyinbax (ku), kravat (ku), rîbat (ku), stubend (ku)
Kyrgyz: галстук (ky) (galstuk)
Lao: ກາລະວັດ (lo) (kā la wat), ຜ້າມັດຄໍ (phā mat khǭ)
Latin: fōcāle n, (New) fascia f
Latvian: kaklasaite f
Lingala: kalaváti, nkɛ́kɛ́lɛ́
Lithuanian: kaklaraištis m
Luxembourgish: Krawatt (lb)
Macedonian: вратоврска f (vratovrska), крава́та f (kraváta)
Malay: tai (ms), tali leher
Maltese: ingravata f
Maori: neketai
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: зангиа (mn) (zangia), галстук (mn) (galstuk)

Mongolian: ᠵᠠᠩᠭᠢᠶ᠎ᠠ (ǰanggiy-a), ᠭᠠᠯᠰᠲ᠋ᠤᠺ (ɣalstuk)
Nahuatl: quechquentli
Navajo: zéédéeláhí, zéénáztʼiʼí, zéédéetʼiʼí, zénáztʼiʼí
Norman: cravate f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: slips n

Nynorsk: slips n
Ottoman Turkish: بویون باغی (bôyûn bâğı), بیون باغی (boyûn bâğı)
Pashto: نکټايي (ps) f (nekṭāyi), نېکټائي f (nekṭāyi)
Persian:
Dari: نیکْتَایِی (nēktāyī)

Iranian Persian: کِراوات (fa) (kerâvât)
Plautdietsch: Schlips m
Polish: krawat (pl) m
Portuguese: gravata (pt) f
Romanian: cravată (ro) f
Russian: га́лстук (ru) m (gálstuk)
Scottish Gaelic: taidh f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: крава̀та f, хр̀ватка f

Roman: kravàta (sh) f, hr̀vatka (sh) f
Sinhalese: ටයි එක (ṭayi eka)
Slovak: viazanka f, kravata f
Slovene: kravata (sl) f
Somali: garawati
Spanish: corbata (es) f
Sundanese: dasi
Swahili: tai (sw)
Swedish: slips (sv) c
Tagalog: kurbata
Tajik: галстук (galstuk)
Thai: เนคไท (nék-tái), ไท (th) (tai)
Tigrinya: ክራባታ (kərabata)
Turkish: kravat (tr), boyunbağı (tr)
Turkmen: galstuk
Ukrainian: крава́тка (uk) f (kravátka), га́лстук (uk) m (hálstuk)
Urdu: نِک ٹائی f (nik ṭāī), نِکْٹائی f (nikṭāī), نِیک ٹائی f (nīk ṭāī), نِیکْٹائی f (nīkṭāī), ٹائی f (ṭāī)
Uyghur: گالىستۇك (galistuk)
Uzbek: boʻyinbogʻ (uz), galstuk (uz)
Venetan: croata (vec)
Vietnamese: cà vạt (vi)
Volapük: please add this translation if you can
Waray-Waray: kurbata
Welsh: tei (cy) m or f
Yiddish: קראַוואַט m (kravat), שניפּס m (shnips)

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