jilbab

• jilbaab

Borrowed from Arabic جِلْبَاب‎ (jilbāb), from Ge'ez ግልባብ (gəlbab, “covering, veil, wrapper”), from ገልበበ (gälbäbä, “to cover, to veil, to wrap, to envelop”).

jilbab (plural jilbabs or jalabib)

1. A long, loose-fitting coat or similar garment worn by some Muslim women to fulfil hijab.
   • 2009 July 3, Norimitsu Onishi, “A Political Symbol, Demurely Worn, Emerges in Indonesia”, in New York Times‎:

     Most Indonesian women started wearing the jilbab in the last decade, after the fall in 1998 of President Suharto, who had kept a close grip on Islamic groups.

• Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, page 102
• Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎ (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 53