hijabi

Borrowed from Arabic حِجَابِيّ‎ (ḥijābiyy).(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

hijabi (plural hijabis)

1. A woman who wears a hijab.
   • 2008, Saba Alvi, An Analysis of how Hijabi Youth Experience Social Activities in Ottawa Secondary Schools →ISBN

     The findings and implications of this study have been categorized into themes in order to illustrate the essence of how hijabi youth experience social activities in Ottawa secondary schools.

   • 2011, Farheen Khan, From Behind the Veil: A Hijabi's Journey to Happiness →ISBN
   • 2014, Nitin Agarwal, Online Collective Action, →ISBN, page 219:

     […] state that their motivation for blogging is to promote Islamic-appropriate dress, modest fashion options, and pride in the American hijabi identity. They blog to share ideas about designing couture that is both fashionable and modest, […]

   • 2014, Shabana Mir, Muslim American Women on Campus: Undergraduate Social Life, →ISBN:

     Almost all hijabis I encountered—except Intisar, Elizabeth, Sharmila, and Muna—were chic hijabis typically garbed in attractive, elegant, yet modest ensembles.

Borrowed from Hausa hijabi, from Arabic حِجَاب‎ (ḥijāb).

hijabi (plural hijabis)

1. (chiefly in a West African context) Alternative form of hijab.
   • 1999, Civil Society and the Political Imagination in Africa →ISBN, page 239:

     Unlike sheer veils that hug shoulders suggestively and espouse their wearer's movements gracefully, the stiff brocade of the hijabi hides a woman's upper torso so completely as to render impossible the definition of her body contours.

   • 2009, Adeline Masquelier, Women and Islamic Revival in a West African Town, →ISBN, page 228:

     As an example of the way dress functions as “public display” (LeBlanc 2000:448), the hijabi is worn when going out— whether on top of one's “good clothes” or over one's everyday faded clothes. One would not wear a hijabi to attend a […]

   • 2013, African Dress: Fashion, Agency, Performance →ISBN, page 97:

     […] if I waited for it to dry I would be wasting my time. So I asked if there was anyone in the house who had a hijabi. There was not one, except a […]

Borrowed from Arabic حِجَاب‎ (ḥijāb).

hìjābī̀ m (possessed form hìjābìn)

1. hijab (custom of wearing a veil)
2. hijab (veil)