agal
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of agal
1850–55; < dialectal Arabic ʿagāl, variant of ʿiqāl cord, rope
Example Sentences
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Mr Menhali, who is wearing white robes, the ghutra headdress and the agal - cords to hold the headdress in place - is heard repeatedly asking why police stopped him.
From BBC
Mr Menhali, who is wearing white robes, the ghutra headdress and the agal, cords to hold the headdress in place, is heard repeatedly asking why police had stopped him.
From BBC
One of the women tosses toward the men an "agal," the black rope worn by Saudi men over their traditional checkered head cloths.
From US News
The clip shows the official angrily taking off his agal - the rope used to keep the traditional Arab head dress in place - and repeatedly hitting the driver with it.
From BBC
It is called also agal?wood and aloes wood.
From Project Gutenberg
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