English[edit]
A woman wearing a Muslim headscarf
Alternative forms[edit]
headscarf (plural headscarves or headscarfs)
- A more or less square piece of material worn over the head, typically by women, often to protect the hair, or for religious reasons.
- Synonym: headsquare
As far as only the Quran itself is concerned, wearing a headscarf is neither required nor prohibited.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
piece of material worn over the head
- Albanian: plah f, pëlhurë (sq)
- Apache:
- Jicarilla: báayoo
- Arabic: حِجَاب (ar) m (ḥijāb), خِمَار (ḵimār)
- Moroccan Arabic: حجاب (ḥijāb), درة (darra), زيف (zīf)
- Armenian: գլխաշոր (hy) (glxašor), թաշկինակ (hy) (tʻaškinak)
- Azerbaijani: yaylıq (az), örpək (az), atqı, kəlağayı (az)
- Bashkir: яулыҡ (yawlıq), (thick, woolen) шәл (şəl)
- Belarusian: ху́стка f (xústka)
- Bengali: রূমাল (rumal)
- Bulgarian: забра́дка (bg) f (zabrádka)
- Catalan: mocador de cap
- Chhattisgarhi: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 頭巾／头巾 (zh) (tóujīn)
- Czech: šátek (cs) m
- Danish: tørklæde
- Dutch: sjaal (nl), hoofddoek (nl)
- Esperanto: kaptuko
- Estonian: pearätt (et), pearätik (et)
- Ewe: ɖuku n
- Faroese: turriklæði n
- Finnish: päähuivi (fi), pääliina (fi), huivi (fi)
- French: foulard (fr) m
- Galician: pano da cabeza f
- Georgian: თავსაფარი (ka) (tavsapari)
- German: Kopftuch (de) n
- Greek: μαντήλα f (mantíla)
- Ancient: κρήδεμνον n (krḗdemnon)
- Hebrew: שָׁבִיס (he) m (shavís)
- Hindi: रुमाल (hi) m (rumāl)
- Hungarian: fejkendő (hu)
- Hunsrik: Koppduch n
- Hutterisch: Tiechel
- Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
- Irish: caifirín m
- Italian: foulard (it), copricapo (it) m
- Japanese: ヘッドスカーフ (heddosukāfu), 頭巾 (ja) (ずきん, zukin), ショール (shōru)
- Kashubian: mamòta f
- Kazakh: жаулық (jaulyq), орамал (oramal)
- Khmer: ក្រមា (km) (krɑmaa)
- Korean: 두건 (ko) (dugeon), 숄 (syol)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: لەچک (leçk)
- Kyrgyz: жоолук (ky) (jooluk), оромол (oromol)
- Latvian: galvas lakats m, lakats m
- Macedonian: шамија f (šamija), марама f (marama), забратка f (zabratka)
- Malayalam: തട്ടം (ml) (taṭṭaṁ)
- Maori: pōtae kāmeta
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian: hodetørkle
- Pashto: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: روسری (fa) (ru-sari), لچک (fa) (lačak, laček), حجاب (fa) (hejâb)
- Polish: chusta (pl) f, chustka (pl) f, apaszka (pl) f, zawój (pl) m (sometimes), rańtuch m (sometimes), podwika (pl) f (sometimes), podwijka (pl) f (sometimes)
- Portuguese: xaile (pt) (Portugal), xale (pt) (Brazil), lenço (pt)
- Romanian: basma (ro) f, batic (ro) n
- Russian: плато́к (ru) m (platók), шаль (ru) f (šalʹ), косы́нка (ru) f (kosýnka)
- Scottish Gaelic: sgarfa-cinn m or f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: марама f
- Roman: marama (sh) f
- Slovak: šatka f
- Spanish: pañueleta f
- Swahili: buibui (sw)
- Swedish: huvudduk (sv) c, huckle (sv) n
- Tajik: рӯймол (rüymol), рӯмол (rümol)
- Tatar: яулык (tt) (yawlıq)
- Turkish: makrama (tr), eşarp (tr), başörtüsü (tr)
- Ukrainian: ху́стка f (xústka)
- Urdu: رومال (rumāl)
- Uzbek: roʻmol (uz)
- Vietnamese: khăn trùm đầu
- Volapük: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: sgarff m or f, pensgarff m or f
- Yiddish: טיכל (tikhl)
- Yup'ik: pelatuuk
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