¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hejab
1. a covering for a Muslim woman's head and face [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hejab
Literary usage of Hejab
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Behind the Red Line: Political Repression in Sudan by Jemera Rone, Brian Owsley, Human Rights Watch/Africa (1996)
"Indeed, the energies of the Public Order and Behavior Police were largely used
during its early existence to enforce the hejab. The regular police force ..."
2. Behind an Eastern Veil: A Plain Tale of Events Occuring in the Experience of by Charles James Wills (1894)
"Nanna hejab now brought me a pair of coarse green canvas garments which puzzled
me altogether; each of these things resembled nothing so much as a gigantic. ..."
3. The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara by Rosita Torr Forbes (1921)
"Hamla. Baggage camels. Hatia. A depression containing brushwood. Hawa* Baggage
saddle. "Haya atta Salat! Haya alia falah." The Moslem call to prayer. hejab. ..."
4. A Dictionary of the Bible: Dealing with Its Language, Literature, and by Samuel Rolles Driver, James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie (1908)
"This may contain for the Moslem a few words from the Koran, called a hejab,
covering, protection ; and i/ for a Christian, a picture of the Virgin and Child ..."
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