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jellabiya

jellabiya 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 jellabiya

pluraljellabiyas

Origin of jellabiya

From Arabic جَلَّابِيَّة (jallābiyya).

Questions about jellabiya

What is jellabiya the alternative form of?
Jellabiya is the alternative form of djellaba.

Words near jellabiya in the dictionary

  1. Jell-O shots
  2. jellaba
  3. jellabah
  4. jellabahs
  5. jellabas
  6. jellabiya
  7. jellabiyas
  8. Jellat Jellat
  9. jelled
  10. jelled out
  11. Jellett

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jellabiya (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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