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From Turkish yaşmak.[1]
yashmak (plural yashmaks)
- A veil worn by Muslim women to cover parts of the face when they are in public.
1930, Sax Rohmer, The Day the World Ended, published 1969, page ix. 88:Through her gauzy yashmak I could see that she was smiling.
1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 46:Mungo cannot make out her face, which is concealed behind a yashmak – the double horsehair veil worn by Muslim women in public – but he is immediately struck by her feet and hands.
a veil worn by Muslim women
- Arabic: خِمَار m (ḵimār), نِقَاب m (niqāb)
- Azerbaijani: yaşmaq
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 面紗／面纱 (zh) (miànshā)
- Czech: nikáb (cs) m
- Dutch: nikab (nl)
- Finnish: niqab (fi)
- French: litham (fr) m, voile (fr) m, niqab (fr) m
- German: Schleier (de) m, Niqab (de) m
- Hindi: निक़ाब m (niqāb), नकाब (hi) m (nakāb)
- Hungarian: nikáb (hu), jasmak
- Indonesian: niqab, purdah (id)
- Japanese: ヤシュマク (yashumaku)
- Kazakh: ниқаб (niqab)
- Malay: niqab, purdah
- Maltese: yaxmak m
- Ottoman Turkish: یاشمق (yaşmak), پرده (perde)
- Persian: روبنده (fa) (rubande), نقاب (fa) (neqâb)
- Polish: nikab (pl) m, kwef m, czarczaf (pl) m, jaszmak (pl) m
- Portuguese: niqab (pt) m
- Romanian: iașmac (ro) n
- Russian: чадра́ (ru) f (čadrá), яшма́к m (jašmák), вуа́ль (ru) f (vuálʹ), ника́б (ru) m (nikáb)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: зар m, марама f, вео m
- Roman: zar (sh) m, marama (sh) f, veo (sh) m
- Spanish: nicab m
- Swedish: niqab (sv) c, nikab c
- Turkish: yaşmak (tr)
- Urdu: نقاب m (niqāb)
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- ^ "yashmak." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. 2008.
