Etymograph

English

jilbab

Jilbab comes from Arabic جِلْبَاب ‘a long, loose-fitting outer garment’, and goes back to Ge'ez ግልባብ ‘covering, veil, wrapper’.

  1. Ge'ezmodernግልባብ‘covering, veil, wrapper’
  2. Arabicc. 500–presentجِلْبَابjilbāb‘a long, loose-fitting outer garment’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2009jilbab

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Ge'ezmodernግልባብ‘covering, veil, wrapper’
  2. Arabicc. 500–presentجِلْبَابjilbāb‘a long, loose-fitting outer garment’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2009jilbab

Earliest quotation: 2009, Norimitsu Onishi, A Political Symbol, Demurely Worn, Emerges in Indonesia: “Most Indonesian women started wearing the jilbab in the…”

Every English word from Ge'ez ግልባብ

Today it means

noun A long, loose-fitting coat or similar garment worn by some Muslim women to fulfil hijab.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Ge'ez ግልባብ / jilbab

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