burkini

Blend of burqa +‎ bikini or burka +‎ -kini.

• Rhymes: -iːni

burkini (plural burkinis)

1. Alternative spelling of burqini.
   • 2016 August 26, Romaissaa Benzizoune, “At the Beach in My Burkini”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     In my mind, the burkini was always the practical, inevitable swimwear goal; the final stage in my journey to becoming a proper hijabi.

   • 2016 August 29, Edward Wong, “‘Facekini’-Wearing Chinese Stand Up for the Right to Bare Nothing”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     In recent days, people on Twitter and other social media platforms have mocked the banning of burkinis by dozens of French beachside towns by asking what French officials would do if Chinese beachgoers showed up wearing facekinis.

Borrowed from English burqini.

• IPA^(key): /ˈburkini/, [ˈburk̟ini]
• Rhymes: -urkini
• Syllabification^(key): bur‧ki‧ni
• Hyphenation^(key): bur‧ki‧ni

burkini

1. A burqini.

• “burkini”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

From burka +‎ -kini.

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burkini m (plural burkinis)

1. a burkini

• IPA^(key): /buɾˈkini/ [buɾˈki.ni]
• Rhymes: -ini
• Syllabification: bur‧ki‧ni

burkini m (plural burkinis)

1. burkini