jilbab
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of jilbab
from Arabic
Example Sentences
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She sat on a broken block from the debris of her destroyed house with her red gown, or jilbab, draped over her head down to the ground.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2025
More than 85 percent of Indonesians are Muslim, and in recent years women have begun to embrace conservative dress and the head scarf, called the jilbab in Indonesia.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2023
Warsame wrote a letter and spoke to the manager on behalf of the woman, who was able to keep her job and continue to wear her jilbab at work.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2018
Maysa had initially adopted the jilbab to “hide some weight I’d put on”, she says.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 26, 2015
She was immediately stripped of her western identity and cloaked in a jilbab, a form of traditional Arabic attire for women.
From Newsweek ● Sep. 5, 2013
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