headscarf

See also: head scarf

English

A woman wearing a Muslim headscarf

Alternative forms

• head scarf, head-scarf

Noun

headscarf (plural headscarves)

1. A more or less square piece of material worn over the head, typically by women, often to protect the hair, or for religious reasons.

   As far as only the Qur'an itself is concerned, wearing a headscarf is neither required nor prohibited.

Derived terms

• headscarfless

Translations

piece of material worn over the head

• Apache:

  Jicarilla: báayoo

• Arabic: حِجَاب (ar) m (ḥijāb), خِمَار (ḵimār)
• Armenian: գլխաշոր (hy) (glxašor), թաշկինակ (hy) (tʻaškinak)
• Azerbaijani: yaylıq (az), örpək (az), atqı
• 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), 头巾 (zh) (tóujīn)

• Czech: šátek (cs) m
• Danish: tørklæde
• Dutch: sjaal (nl), hoofddoek (nl)
• Esperanto: kaptuko
• Estonian: pearätt, pearätik
• Ewe: ɖuku n
• Faroese: turriklæði n
• Finnish: päähuivi (fi), pääliina (fi), huivi (fi)
• French: foulard (fr) m
• Georgian: თავსაფარი (tavsapari)
• German: Kopftuch (de) n
• Greek: μαντήλα f (mantíla)

  Ancient: κρήδεμνον n (krḗdemnon)

• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: रुमाल (hi) m (rumāl)
• Hungarian: fejkendő (hu)
• 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 (ずきん, zukin), ショール (shōru)
• Kazakh: жаулық (jaulyq), орамал (oramal)
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• Khmer: ក្រមា (km) (krɑmaa)
• Korean: 두건 (ko) (dugeon), 숄 (syol)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Kyrgyz: жоолук (ky) (jooluk), оромол (oromol)
• Latvian: galvas lakats m, lakats m
• Macedonian: шамија f (šamija), марама f (marama)
• 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: velo (es) m
• Swahili: buibui (sw)
• Swedish: huvudduk (sv) c
• Tajik: рӯймол (rüymol), рӯмол (rümol)
• 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

Further reading

• headscarf on Wikipedia.Wikipedia