khimar

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Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic خِمَار (ḵimār).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɪˈmɑː(ɹ)/, /xɪˈmɑː(ɹ)/

Noun

khimar (plural khimars)

  1. A long veil worn by Muslim women as part of hijab.
    • 2009 May 22, Clyde Haberman, “Interfaith Understanding Wins Out, and a Plot Loses”, in New York Times:
      Nor would universal healing arrive with the Sabbath candlesticks from Poland that had been in Rina Lubit’s family for five generations or with the khimar, a scarf to cover a Muslim woman’s face, that was handed down from Tayssir Abdullah’s great-grandmother in Yemen.

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