hijab
Appearance
English
[edit]
Alternative forms
[edit]- hejab, hijaab, hajib, hijabi (nonstandard)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic حِجَاب (ḥijāb, “veil”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /hɪˈd͡ʒɑːb/, /hɪˈd͡ʒæb/[1]
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɑːb
- Hyphenation: hi‧jab
Noun
[edit]hijab (countable and uncountable, plural hijabs)
- (countable) A traditional headscarf worn by Muslim women, covering the hair and neck.
- 2016 February 18, Kyung Lah, “Fearing attacks, Muslim women learn self-defense”, in CNN[1], archived from the original on 12 April 2021:
- “When I’m dressed like this, they know,” says Lufta Islam, touching her hijab and long dress. ” ‘OK, she’s a Muslim girl.’ “
- (uncountable, Islam) The practice, among Muslim women, of covering the body after the age of puberty in front of non-related (non-family) adult males.
- 2010, Jawairriya Abdallah-Shahid, Veiled Voices, →ISBN, page 13:
- The belief that Muslim females observe hijab because men force them to do so insults some Muslim females who have based their decision on their understanding of Islam.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Portuguese: hijabe
Translations
[edit]headscarf
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practice of wearing a headscarf
References
[edit]- ^ “hijab”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Further reading
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈhidʒɑb/, [ˈhidʒɑ̝b]
- Rhymes: -idʒɑb
- Syllabification(key): hi‧jab
- Hyphenation(key): hi‧jab
Noun
[edit]hijab
- hijab (headscarf)
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of hijab (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | hijab | hijabit | |
| genitive | hijabin | hijabien | |
| partitive | hijabia | hijabeja | |
| illative | hijabiin | hijabeihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | hijab | hijabit | |
| accusative | nom. | hijab | hijabit |
| gen. | hijabin | ||
| genitive | hijabin | hijabien | |
| partitive | hijabia | hijabeja | |
| inessive | hijabissa | hijabeissa | |
| elative | hijabista | hijabeista | |
| illative | hijabiin | hijabeihin | |
| adessive | hijabilla | hijabeilla | |
| ablative | hijabilta | hijabeilta | |
| allative | hijabille | hijabeille | |
| essive | hijabina | hijabeina | |
| translative | hijabiksi | hijabeiksi | |
| abessive | hijabitta | hijabeitta | |
| instructive | — | hijabein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Further reading
[edit]- “hijab”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /i.ʒab/
Audio (Canada (Shawinigan)): (file)
Noun
[edit]hijab m (plural hijabs)
- alternative spelling of hidjab
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “hijab”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic حِجَاب (ḥijāb).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hijab m (invariable)
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic حِجَاب (ḥijāb).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hijab m (definite singular hijaben, indefinite plural hijaber, definite plural hijabene)
- a hijab
References
[edit]- “hijab” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic حِجَاب (ḥijāb).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hijab m (definite singular hijaben, indefinite plural hijabar, definite plural hijabane)
- a hijab
References
[edit]- “hijab” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English hijab.
Noun
[edit]hijab m (plural hijabs)
- alternative form of hijabe
Swahili
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hijab class IX (plural hijab class X)
- alternative form of hijabu
Tagalog
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Arabic حِجَاب (ḥijāb, “veil”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /hiˈd͡ʒab/ [hɪˈd͡ʒab̚]
- Rhymes: -ab
- Syllabification: hi‧jab
Noun
[edit]hijáb (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒᜇ᜔ᜌᜊ᜔)
- hijab (headscarf)
See also
[edit]Categories:
- English terms derived from Arabic
- English terms borrowed from Arabic
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ɑːb
- Rhymes:English/ɑːb/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- en:Islam
- en:Headwear
- Finnish terms derived from Arabic
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/idʒɑb
- Rhymes:Finnish/idʒɑb/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish risti-type nominals
- French terms with aspirated h
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- Italian terms borrowed from Arabic
- Italian terms derived from Arabic
- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian indeclinable nouns
- Italian terms spelled with J
- Italian masculine nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål terms borrowed from Arabic
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Arabic
- Norwegian Bokmål terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Norwegian Bokmål/ɑb
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns
- nb:Headwear
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms borrowed from Arabic
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Arabic
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Norwegian Nynorsk/ɑb
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk masculine nouns
- nn:Headwear
- Portuguese terms derived from English
- Portuguese terms derived from Arabic
- Portuguese unadapted borrowings from English
- Portuguese terms borrowed from English
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Swahili terms with audio pronunciation
- Swahili lemmas
- Swahili nouns
- Swahili class IX nouns
- Tagalog terms derived from Arabic
- Tagalog terms borrowed from Arabic
- Tagalog unadapted borrowings from Arabic
- Tagalog 2-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tagalog/ab
- Rhymes:Tagalog/ab/2 syllables
- Tagalog terms with mabilis pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script
- Tagalog terms spelled with J
- tl:Islam
- tl:Headwear
