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jalabib

jalabib is the plural of jilbab.

Meaning of jilbab

Noun

jilbab (plural jilbabs or jalabib)

  1. A long, loose-fitting coat or similar garment worn by some Muslim women to fulfil hijab.
    • Most Indonesian women started wearing the jilbab in the last decade, after the fall in 1998 of President Suharto, who had kept a close grip on Islamic groups.2009 July 3, Norimitsu Onishi, “A Political Symbol, Demurely Worn, Emerges in Indonesia”, in New York Times

Questions about jalabib

What is jalabib the plural of?
Jalabib is the plural of jilbab.

Words near jalabib in the dictionary

  1. jakwood
  2. Jakšić
  3. JAL
  4. jalabiah
  5. jalabiahs
  6. jalabib
  7. jalabiya
  8. jalabiyah
  9. jalabiyahs
  10. jalabiyas
  11. Jalainur

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jalabib (page history and authors); jilbab (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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