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dashiki

/dəˈʃiːkiː/

dashiki noun: a loose and brightly-colored African shirt.

dashiki: a loose and brightly-colored African shirt
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Noun

dashiki (plural dashikis)

  1. A loose and brightly-colored African shirt.
    • Royce: African colors. Subtle... You want me to start wearing dashikis? Go all Marion Barry an' shit?2006 Oct. 1, Dennis Lehane, "Refugees", The Wire, 00:31:10

Forms of dashiki

pluraldashikis
alternative formdaishiki
alternative formdanshiki
alternative formdasheki

Origin of dashiki

Borrowed from Yoruba dàńṣíkí.

Words that rhyme with dashiki

11 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about dashiki

What does dashiki mean?
Dashiki means a loose and brightly-colored African shirt.
What part of speech is dashiki?
Dashiki is a noun.
How do you pronounce dashiki?
Dashiki is pronounced /dəˈʃiːkiː/.
What is the plural of dashiki?
The plural of dashiki is dashikis.

Words near dashiki in the dictionary

  1. dashi
  2. Dashiell
  3. Dashiells
  4. dashier
  5. dashiest
  6. dashiki
  7. dashikis
  8. dashine
  9. dashines
  10. dashing
  11. dashing down

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dashiki (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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