English
kamees
Kamees comes from Arabic قَمِيص ‘a short and usually form-fitting upper-body…’.
- Arabicc. 500–presentقَمِيصqamīṣ‘a short and usually form-fitting upper-body outer garment’
- Englishearliest quotation 2023kamees
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Arabicc. 500–presentقَمِيصqamīṣ‘a short and usually form-fitting upper-body outer garment’
- Englishearliest quotation 2023kamees
Earliest quotation: 2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges: “Komal caresses the edge of her kameez with her…”
Linked words
through Proto-West Germanic *hamō ‘wrapping, binding’
Today it means
noun A long, loose shirt or blouse worn in some South Asian and Islamic countries.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Arabic قَمِيص / kamees