burqa

English

The head and upper torso portions of a burqa.

Alternative forms

• burka, burkha, burqua
• boorka, bourkha (obsolete)
• bourqa (rare)

Etymology

From Hindustani برقع / बुरक़ा (burqā), from Classical Persian برقع (burqa'), from Arabic بُرْقُع (burquʕ).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɜː.kə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɝ.kə/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)kə

Noun

burqa (plural burqas)

1. (strictly) An enveloping Central Asian garment which covers the whole body, incorporating a netted screen to cover the eyes, chiefly worn by women in fundamentalist denominations of Islam to observe sartorial hijab (the practice of wearing concealing clothing in front of adult men after the age of puberty).

   Synonyms: (especially in Central Asia) paranja, chadri

   Hypernym: purdah

   • 2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 69:

     He fished a sky blue burqa from the bag. The yards of pleated cloth spilled over his knees when he lifted it.

2. (loosely) Another kind of garment worn by Muslim women (of any denomination) to observe sartorial hijab:
   1. A garment incorporating a niqab (veil for the face).
   2. (sometimes proscribed) A hijab (traditional headscarf covering the hair and neck), such as a khimar or shayla .

Derived terms

• anti-burqa
• burqaed
• burqaless
• burqini

Translations

female garment that covers the whole body

• Arabic: بُرْقُع m (burquʕ)
• Armenian: փարանջա (pʻaranǰa)
• Azerbaijani: pərəncə
• Belarusian: паранджа́ f (parandžá)
• Bengali: বোরকা (bn) (bōrka)
• Bulgarian: фередже́ (bg) n (feredžé)
• Catalan: burca (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 罩袍 (zh) (zhàopáo), 波卡 (bōkǎ), 布嘎 (bùgā), 布爾卡 / 布尔卡 (bù'ěrkǎ)

• Czech: burka (cs) f
• Danish: burka (da) c
• Dutch: boerka (nl) m
• Esperanto: burko
• Faroese: burka f
• Finnish: burka (fi)
• French: burqa (fr), voile intégral (fr) m
• Georgian: პარანჯა (ṗaranǯa)
• German: Burka (de) f
• Greek: μπούρκα (el) f (boúrka), φερετζές (el) m (feretzés)
• Gujarati: બુરખો m (burkho)
• Hebrew: בּוּרְקָה (he) f (burka)
• Hindi: बुरक़ा m (burqā), बुरका (hi) m (burkā)
• Hungarian: burka (hu)
• Icelandic: búrka f
• Indonesian: burqa, burkak (id)
• Ingrian: parandža
• Japanese: ブルカ (ja) (buruka)
• Kazakh: бурқа (burqa), паранжы (paranjy), паранжа (paranja)
• Korean: 부르카 (ko) (bureuka)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: ferencî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: паранжы (paranjı), беренжи (ky) (berenji)
• Macedonian: бурка f (burka), фереџе (feredže)
• Norwegian: burka m
• Ottoman Turkish: فراجه (ferece, ferace)
• Pashto: بورقه f (borqá)
• Persian: برقع (fa) (borqa'), فرجی (fa) (faraji)
• Polish: burka (pl) f
• Portuguese: burca (pt)
• Russian: паранджа́ (ru) f (parandžá), чадра́ (ru) f (čadrá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бу̑рка f, фѐреџа f

  Roman: bȗrka (sh) f, fèredža (sh) f

• Spanish: burka (es) m, burqa (es) m
• Swahili: barakoa
• Swedish: burka (sv) c
• Tajik: фаранҷӣ (faranji)
• Tatar: пәрәнҗә (tt) (päräncä)
• Turkish: burka (tr)
• Ukrainian: паранджа́ f (parandžá)
• Urdu: برقع (ur) m (burqā)
• Uyghur: پەرەنجە (perenje)
• Uzbek: paranji (uz)

See also

• aba, abaya

French

Alternative forms

• burka

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /byʁ.ka/, /buʁ.ka/

Noun

burqa f (plural burqas)

1. burqa

See also

• niqab
• hijab

Portuguese

Noun

burqa f (plural burqas)

1. alternative spelling of burca

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuɾka/ [ˈbuɾ.ka]
• Rhymes: -uɾka
• Syllabification: bur‧qa

Noun

burqa m (plural burqas)

1. burqa