headscarf

headscarf

See also: head scarf

English

A woman wearing a Muslim headscarf

Alternative forms

• head scarf, head-scarf

Noun

headscarf (plural headscarves or headscarfs)

1. A more or less square piece of material worn over the head, typically by women, often to protect the hair, or for religious reasons.

   Synonym: headsquare

   As far as only the Qur'an itself is concerned, wearing a headscarf is neither required nor prohibited.

Derived terms

• headscarfless

Translations

piece of material worn over the head

Albanian: plah f, pëlhurë (sq) Apache: Jicarilla: báayoo Arabic: حِجَاب‎ (ar) m (ḥijāb), خِمَار‎ (ḵimār) Moroccan Arabic: حجاب‎ (ḥijāb), درة‎ (darra), زيف‎ (zīf) Armenian: գլխաշոր (hy) (glxašor), թաշկինակ (hy) (tʿaškinak) Azerbaijani: yaylıq (az), örpək (az), atqı, kəlağayı (az) Bashkir: яулыҡ (yawlıq), (thick, woolen) шәл (şäl) Belarusian: ху́стка f (xústka) Bengali: রূমাল (rūmal) Bulgarian: забра́дка (bg) f (zabrádka) Catalan: mocador de cap Chhattisgarhi: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 頭巾／头巾 (zh) (tóujīn) Czech: šátek (cs) m Danish: tørklæde Dutch: sjaal (nl), hoofddoek (nl) Esperanto: kaptuko Estonian: pearätt, pearätik Ewe: ɖuku n Faroese: turriklæði n Finnish: päähuivi (fi), pääliina (fi), huivi (fi) French: foulard (fr) m Galician: pano da cabeza f Georgian: თავსაფარი (tavsapari) German: Kopftuch (de) n Greek: μαντήλα f (mantíla) Ancient: κρήδεμνον n (krḗdemnon) Hebrew: כיסוי ראש‎ (he) m (kisúy rosh) Hindi: रुमाल (hi) m (rumāl) Hungarian: fejkendő (hu) Hunsrik: Koppduch n Hutterisch: Tiechel Icelandic: please add this translation if you can Irish: caifirín m Italian: foulard (it), copricapo (it) m Japanese: ヘッドスカーフ (heddosukāfu), 頭巾 (ja) (ずきん, zukin), ショール (shōru) Kazakh: жаулық (jaulyq), орамал (oramal) Khmer: ក្រមា (km) (krɑmaa) Korean: 두건 (ko) (dugeon), 숄 (syol) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: لەچک‎ (ku) (leçk) Kyrgyz: жоолук (ky) (jooluk), оромол (oromol) Latvian: galvas lakats m, lakats m Macedonian: шамија f (šamija), марама f (marama) Malayalam: തട്ടം (ml) (taṭṭaṃ) Maori: pōtae kāmeta Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: hodetørkle Pashto: please add this translation if you can Persian: روسری‎ (fa) (ru-sari), لچک‎ (fa) (lačak, laček), حجاب‎ (fa) (hejâb) Polish: chusta (pl) f, chustka (pl) f, apaszka (pl) f, zawój (pl) m (sometimes), rańtuch m (sometimes), podwika (pl) f (sometimes), podwijka (pl) f (sometimes) Portuguese: xaile (pt) (Portugal), xale (pt) (Brazil), lenço (pt) Romanian: basma (ro) f, batic (ro) n Russian: плато́к (ru) m (platók), шаль (ru) f (šalʹ), косы́нка (ru) f (kosýnka) Scottish Gaelic: sgarfa-cinn m or f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: марама f Roman: marama (sh) f Slovak: šatka f Spanish: pañueleta f Swahili: buibui (sw) Swedish: huvudduk (sv) c Tajik: рӯймол (rüymol), рӯмол (rümol) Tatar: яулык (tt) (yaulıq) Turkish: makrama (tr), eşarp (tr), başörtüsü (tr) Ukrainian: ху́стка f (xústka) Urdu: رومال‎ (rumāl) Uzbek: roʻmol (uz) Vietnamese: khăn trùm đầu Volapük: please add this translation if you can Welsh: sgarff m or f, pensgarff m or f Yiddish: טיכל‎ (tikhl) Yup'ik: pelatuuk

Further reading

• headscarf on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• hardfaces