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jelab

jelab is the archaic 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 jelab

pluraljelabs

Questions about jelab

What is jelab the archaic form of?
Jelab is the archaic form of djellaba.

Words near jelab in the dictionary

  1. Jekyll/Hyde syndrome
  2. Jekyllesque
  3. Jekyllian
  4. Jekylls and Hydes
  5. jel
  6. jelab
  7. jelabee
  8. jelabees
  9. jelabs
  10. jelak
  11. Jelambar

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jelab (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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