hijab
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5.2
- noun
- /hɪˈdʒɑːb/
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hiyab
- What a great article on why women choose to wear hijab and how others perceive them!
- wear hijabs
- women wearing the hijab
- hijab, a headscarf
The burqa, the niqab, and to some extent the hijab are liberating.
- The burqa, the niqab, and to some extent the hijab are liberating.
- I just, I don't think I'm ready to kind of wear the hijab yet.
- And she's like, I dressed in a full hijab.
- And I said, by the hijab, I guess you're probably a Muslim.
- The non hijab women were in the minority.
- It's not as it's sometimes been portrayed, a movement against hijab through and through.
- Yeah, she blew up because of, you know, wearing the hijab type thing and that.
- You even smile in front of anti Arab protesters wearing your hijab because you know that you are stronger than them.
- So when I was young and impressionable, it was like, well, if I I need to be like what I see and they not wearing no kemar or no hijab.
- So this is where we had some people like this one woman, she was very, quite, very feminist oriented and she had an issue with women wearing their the hijab.
Examples
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Hijab is definitely a struggle and a lot of hijabis struggle with hijab every day.
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I was there two years ago doing a documentary on the hijab.
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I saw an older woman in a hijab.
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If in the United States, a woman wearing the hijab can succeed, why not in France?
Academic text (2006) -
So, for example, in Egypt, the hijab is not worn by all women.
Academic text (2003) -
You even smile in front of anti Arab protesters wearing your hijab because you know that you are stronger than them.
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The political and social implications of hijab have prompted researchers to explore this controversial phenomenon.
Blog text (12) -
Yet, in the Negev, nearly all younger Bedu women now wear the hijab, a dress unseen here some 30 years ago.
Academic text (2003) -
Contrary to what is often asserted by hijab-wearers, there is no universal prescription in Islam for women to wear it.
Academic text (2006) -
Many Muslim women still wear the hijab as a sign of modesty and piety.
Synonyms
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2.3
A piece of cloth often worn by women on the head for warmth, to cover hair, or for style
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2.2
Cloth or hat that people wear on the head, sometimes over the face
A long headscarf that covers hair, neck, shoulders and hangs just above the waist
A large cloth women wrap over their head and shoulders
A cloth worn on the head for cultural, religious, or protective reasons
Antonyms
How Modest
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hijab comes from the Arabic word hijāb, which means 'cover' or 'curtain' and is based on the simple root h-j-b meaning 'to hide' or 'to separate'. So a hijab is a cloth that covers the hair or head as a sign of 'modesty'.