saafa

saafa

English

Noun

saafa (plural saafas)

1. A headscarf or long cloth used to form a turban in parts of India.
   • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins 2013, p. 72:

     She tried to do things for him, get his slippers, fetch his saafa, button his kurta, dry his wet hair after a bath.

   • 2007, India Today International, Vol. 6, p. 6:

     For years, she has been wrapping the traditional Rajasthani headgear, the saafa or pagdi, for the local deity Ghanghor.

   • 2012, Shefalee Vasudev, Powder Room:

     ‘Fashion is tangible; it can't be understood just by looking at it,' he would say admonishingly, pulling off a sari from here, a saafa from there and turning them around to show their undersides.