yashmak

English

Alternative forms

• yashmac
• yashmack

Etymology

From Turkish yaşmak.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: yash‧mak

Noun

yashmak (plural yashmaks)

1. 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.

Synonyms

• (veil that covers parts of the face): niqab, veil, hijab, purdah, scarf

Translations

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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