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jalabiyah

jalabiyah is the alternative form of djellaba.

Meaning of djellaba

Noun

djellaba (plural djellabas)

  1. A loose-fitting, ankle-length hooded robe worn by men in North Africa.
    • Dignified gentlemen in sober djellabas, of excellent cut and material, their wives in equally sober djellabas, sat in the tea shops with their children and servants, sipping mint tea.1988, Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, A Street in Marrakech: A Personal View of Urban Women in Morocco

Forms of jalabiyah

pluraljalabiyahs

Questions about jalabiyah

What is jalabiyah the alternative form of?
Jalabiyah is the alternative form of djellaba.

Words near jalabiyah in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jalabiyah (page history and authors); djellaba (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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