English
a Soviet soldier drying his footwraps, Y.G. Gorelov, "Do the Russians Want War?", 1962
Noun
footwrap (plural footwraps)
- A strip of cloth worn around the feet before the wide availability of socks or to avoid chafing, absorb sweat and improve the foothold.
Synonyms
Translations
a strip of cloth worn around the feet
- Belarusian: ану́ча f (anúča)
- Bulgarian: парте́нка (bg) f (parténka)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 包腳布 (zh), 包脚布 (zh) (bāojiǎobù)
- Czech: onuce (cs) f, ovinka f, zavinovačka f
- Finnish: jalkarätti (fi)
- French: chaussette russe f (Russian sock)
- German: Fußlappen (de) m
- Japanese: ポルチャンキ (poruchanki) (from Russian plural form)
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- Kazakh: шұлғау (şulğaw)
- Polish: onuca (pl) f
- Russian: портя́нка (ru) f (portjánka), ону́ча (ru) f (onúča)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: обојак m
- Roman: obojak (sh) m
- Slovak: onuca f, ovinka f, ovinovačka f
- Ukrainian: ону́ча f (onúča)
- Vietnamese: vải bọc chân, xà cạp
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