djellaba

From French djellaba, from Algerian Arabic جلابة (jallāba).

djellaba (plural djellabas)

1. A loose-fitting, ankle-length hooded robe worn by men in North Africa.
   • 1988, Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, A Street in Marrakech: A Personal View of Urban Women in Morocco:

     Dignified gentlemen in sober djellabas, of excellent cut and material, their wives in equally sober djellabas, sat in the tea shops with their children and servants, sipping mint tea.

• djellabah
• galabea, galabeah, galabeya, galabia, galabiah, galabieh, galabiya, galabiyah, gallabea, gallabeah, gallabia, gallabiah, gallabieh, gallabiya, gallabiyah, gallabiyeh
• jalabiah, jalabiya, jalabiyah, jellabiya
• jilaabah, jellaba
• jelab (archaic)

Borrowed from French djellaba, from Moroccan Arabic جلابة (jallāba).

• IPA^(key): /dʒɛ.laː.baː/

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• Hyphenation: djel‧la‧ba

djellaba f (plural djellaba's)

1. a djellaba

• IPA^(key): /dʒɛ.la.ba/ ~ /dʒe.la.ba/

djellaba f (plural djellabas)

1. djellaba

• → Catalan: gel·laba
• → Dutch: djellaba
• → English: djellaba

• “djellaba”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.