burqa

• burka, burkha, burqua
• boorka, bourkha (obsolete)
• bourqa (rare)

From Hindustani برقع / बुरक़ा (burqā), from Classical Persian برقع (burqa'), from Arabic بُرْقُع (burquʕ).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɜː.kə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɝ.kə/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)kə

burqa (plural burqas)

1. (strictly) An enveloping Central Asian garment which covers the whole body, incorporating a netted screen to cover the eyes, chiefly worn by women in fundamentalist denominations of Islam to observe sartorial hijab (the practice of wearing concealing clothing in front of adult men after the age of puberty).

   Synonyms: (especially in Central Asia) paranja, chadri

   Hypernym: purdah

   • 2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 69:

     He fished a sky blue burqa from the bag. The yards of pleated cloth spilled over his knees when he lifted it.

2. (loosely) Another kind of garment worn by Muslim women (of any denomination) to observe sartorial hijab:
   1. A garment incorporating a niqab (veil for the face).
   2. (sometimes proscribed) A hijab (traditional headscarf covering the hair and neck), such as a khimar or shayla .

• aba, abaya

• burka

• IPA^(key): /byʁ.ka/, /buʁ.ka/

burqa f (plural burqas)

1. burqa

• niqab
• hijab

burqa f (plural burqas)

1. alternative spelling of burca

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuɾka/ [ˈbuɾ.ka]
• Rhymes: -uɾka
• Syllabification: bur‧qa

burqa m (plural burqas)

1. burqa