# gilet
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from French gilet (“vest, waistcoat”), from regional Italian gileccu (Calabria), gilecco (Genoa), gelecco (Naples), ggileccu (Sicily), etc. (standard Italian gilè is borrowed from French), from Turkish yelek (“jelick; vest, waistcoat”) (ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yẹl (“wind”, noun)) with the final syllable modified to match other types of clothing such as corselet and mantelet. The Oxford English Dictionary does not regard the French word as having derived from Arabic جَلِيقَة (jalīqa), which it views as a recent borrowing from Italian into Algerian Arabic. Doublet of jelick.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈʒiːleɪ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈʒɪleɪ/, /ʒɪˈleɪ/
* Rhymes: (one GA pronunciation) -eɪ
* Hyphenation: gi‧let

### Noun

gilet (plural gilets)
* (historical)
** A waistcoat worn by a man.
** A bodice worn by a woman similar to a man's waistcoat; also, a decorative panel at the front of such a bodice, or worn separately.
* (by extension) A sleeveless jacket resembling a waistcoat but generally closed at the neck; specifically, one which is padded to provide warmth.
    Synonym: bodywarmer

#### Translations
### Notes

* 1 2 From the collection of the Museum Rotterdam in Rotterdam, South Holland, the Netherlands.

### References

* ↑ “gilet, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “gilet, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

### Further reading

* gilet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* “gilet”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

### Anagrams

* leg it, legit

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from French gilet.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʒiˈlɛt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: gi‧let
* Rhymes: -ɛt

### Noun

gilet n (plural gilets, diminutive giletje n)
* waistcoat, vest

## French
### Etymology

From regional Italian gileccu (Calabria), gilecco (Genoa), gelecco (Naples), ggileccu (Sicily), etc. (standard Italian gilè is borrowed from French), from Turkish yelek (“jelick; vest, waistcoat”) (ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yẹl (“wind”, noun)) with the final syllable modified to match other types of clothing such as corselet and mantelet. The Oxford English Dictionary does not regard the word as having derived from Arabic جَلِيقَة (jalīqa), which it views as a recent borrowing from Italian into Algerian Arabic. Compare Greek γιλέκο (giléko), Spanish chaleco.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʒi.lɛ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

gilet m (plural gilets)
* waistcoat, vest
* sweater
    Synonyms: pull, tricot, chandail

#### Derived terms

* gilet de sauvetage
* gilet jaune
* gilet pare-balle/gilet pare-balles

#### Descendants

* → Dutch: gilet
* → English: gilet
* → Franco-Provençal: g·ilèt
* → Italian: gilè
* → Russian: жиле́т (žilét)

### References

* ↑ “gilet, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “gilet, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

### Further reading

* “gilet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Picard
### Noun

gilet m
* sweater; jumper