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keffiyeh

/kəˈfiː(j)ə/

keffiyeh noun: an Iraqi headdress from the city of Kufa that is traditionally worn by some Arabs, also used as a scarf.

keffiyeh: an Iraqi headdress from the city of Kufa that is traditionally worn by some Arabs, also used as a...
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Noun

keffiyeh (plural keffiyehs)

  1. An Iraqi headdress from the city of Kufa that is traditionally worn by some Arabs, also used as a scarf.
    • Hos head showed again the dignity of the Arab dress, the inevitable keffiyah of black and white held in place by the black silk agal.1951, Agatha Christie, They Came to Baghdad
    • This guy's already awake! And chipper! He wraps on a keffiyeh!2015, Joe Sacco, Palestine, Fantagraphics, →ISBN, page 31
    Synonyms:
    chafiye, cemedanî, ghutra, hattah, kufiya, mashadah, rezza, scarf, shawl

keffiyeh meaning in Tamil, Arabic and Persian

keffiyeh in Tamil

தலைக்குட்டை

keffiyeh in Arabic

Arabian headdress
كُوفِيَّة kūfiyya, شُمَاغ šumāḡ, غُتْرَة ḡutra, حَطَّة ḥaṭṭa, مَشَدَة mašada

keffiyeh in Persian

Arabian headdress
چفیه čafiye, دستمال یزدی dastmâl yazdi

Synonyms of keffiyeh

All synonyms of keffiyeh

Forms of keffiyeh

pluralkeffiyehs
alternative formkaffiyah
alternative formkuffiyeh
alternative formkufiya
alternative formkufiyah
alternative formkufiyya

Origin of keffiyeh

From Arabic كُوفِيَّة (kūfiyya). Doublet of kofia.

Questions about keffiyeh

What does keffiyeh mean?
Keffiyeh means an Iraqi headdress from the city of Kufa that is traditionally worn by some Arabs, also used as a scarf.
What is keffiyeh in Tamil?
Keffiyeh in Tamil is தலைக்குட்டை. See Keffiyeh meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is keffiyeh?
Keffiyeh is a noun.
How do you pronounce keffiyeh?
Keffiyeh is pronounced /kəˈfiː(j)ə/.
What is the plural of keffiyeh?
The plural of keffiyeh is keffiyehs.

Words near keffiyeh in the dictionary

  1. keffels
  2. Keffer
  3. Keffers
  4. keffiyah
  5. keffiyahs
  6. keffiyeh
  7. keffiyehs
  8. kefi
  9. kefir
  10. kefir grain
  11. kefir grains

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Adapted from Wiktionary: keffiyeh (page history and authors); keffiyeh (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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