Ahmad al-Shidyaq - Leg over Leg - Volumes One and Two

the lifāq ,

“two garments that have been sewn together”

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the muḥabbakah ,

“a garment that is tightly sewn and striped”

the mijwal ,

“a women’s garment”

the khamlah ,

“a certain garment with a nap like the kisāʾ (‘a kind of cloak’) and so on”; synonym khamīl

khāl ,

“smooth garments, or a striped garment of Yemen”

the diraql ,

“a garment resembling the armaniyyah ” 630

the mumarjil ,

“a garment with images of men on it”

the mumarjal ,

“a kind of embroidered garment” (the author of the Qāmūs lists the preceding word under r-j-l and the present word in an entry of its own) 631

the murammalah ,

“a thin garment”

the saḥl ,

“a certain white cotton garment”; synonym misḥal

the musalsalah ,

“a musalsal garment is one with striped decoration”

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the ʿaql ,

“a red garment”

the mufalfalah ,

[a garment] “decorated as though with peppercorns”

the qasṭalāniyyah ,

“[a garment] that derives its name from a certain governor” 632

the waṣīlah ,

“a striped Yemeni garment”

the muhalhalah ,

“a delicately woven garment”

the āmmiyyah ,

eponymous 633

the mubram ,

“a class of garments, or a garment whose yarn is double-twisted”

the jahramiyyah ,

“eponymously named [after Jahram, a town in Persia] garments similar to carpeting or made of linen”

the murassamah ,

“a striped garment”

the muraqqamah ,

“a striped garment ( raqm being a kind of decoration), or silk-wool, or wraps”

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the ʿaqm ,

“a red tunic, or any red garment”

the qadm ,

“a red garment”

the qirām ,

“a colored garment of wool with raqm -decoration and designs, or a delicate veil; synonym miqram ”

the abū qalamūn ,

“a Greek garment of many colors”

the milḥam ,

“a class of garment”

the nīm ,

“any bread or garment that is supple”

the ākhinī ,

“a striped garment”

the dafanī ,

“a striped garment”

urjuwān ,

“red garments”

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the sabaniyyah ,

“a silk garment on which are the likenesses of citrons”

shatūn ,

“supple garments”

the shādhakūnah ,

“a thick quilted garment made in Yemen”

the muʿarjanah ,

“a gament on which palm racemes are pictured”

the muʿayyanah ,

“a garment whose decoration includes small squares resembling the eyes of a wild beast”

the mufannanah ,

“a garment of diversified design containing strips made of a different cloth”

the mufawwahah ,

“[a garment] dyed with madder” (see in the Qāmūs under f-w-h : “ fuwwah , on the pattern of sukkar , are long thin red roots used in dyeing” etc. and under f-w-y : “ fuwwah , on the pattern of quwwah , are roots used in dyeing”)

the qūhī ,

“a certain white garment”

the nahnah ,

“a delicately woven garment”

the mulahlahah ,

garments described as mulahlah are those that are delicately woven; synonym muhalhal

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muwajjahah ,

“double-sided fabrics”

the miḥshaʾ ,

“a thick wrap, or a short white wrap which one wraps around one’s waist, or a waist wrap in which one envelops oneself”

the sabīḥah ,

“a black wrap”

the khasīj ,

“a wrap of wool”

the iḍrīj ,

“a yellow wrap, or red silk-wool”

the musabbaḥ ,

“a tough, strong wrap”; synonym mushabbaḥ

the sayḥ ,

“a striped wrap” synonym musayyaḥ

the bijād ,

“a striped wrap”

the burjud ,

“a thick wrap”

the jūdiyāʾ ,

“a wrap”

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the aghthar ,

“wraps made with large quantities of wool”

the khamīṣah ,

“a rectangular black wrap with two decorated borders”

the mirṭ ,

“a wrap of wool or silk-wool; plural murūṭ ”

the shamlah ,

“a wrap [similar to but] less [valuable] than the qaṭīfah ”

the ṭiml ,

“a black wrap, or a garment thoroughly dyed”

the mārī ,

“a small wrap with hanging threads”

the sharʿabī ,

“a kind of mantle”

the ʿaṣb ,

“a kind of mantle”

mukaʿʿab ,

“embroidered mantles, or a garment folded into stiff pleats”

the khilāj ,

“a kind of striped mantle”

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the shīḥ ,

“a Yemeni mantle”

the qurduḥ ,

“a kind of mantle”

the saʿīdiyyah ,

“a kind of Yemeni mantle”

the sanad ,

“a kind of mantle”

the baqīr ,

“a mantle that is divided in half and worn without sleeves; synonym baqīrah ”

ḥibar ,

“a kind of Yemeni mantle; singular ḥibarah , on the pattern of ʿinabah ”

the ḥabīr ,

“a decorated mantle, or new clothes”

the sīrāʾ ,

“a kind of yellow-striped mantle, or one mixed with silk”

the muṭayyar ,

“a kind of mantle”

the qiṭr ,

“another kind [of mantle]”

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the mushayyaz ,

“any red-striped garment”

the murayyash ,

“an embroidered mantle”

the fūf ,

“a kind of Yemeni mantle; the mufawwaf mantle is a delicate mantle, or one with white stripes”

the naṣīf ,

“a woman’s head wrap, or a bi-colored mantle”

the birkah ,

“a Yemeni mantle”

the marjal ,

“a Yemeni mantle”

the muraḥḥal ,

“[a garment] with camel’s saddle designs”

the taḥamah ,

“mantles striped with yellow”

the atḥamī ,

“a mantle too well known to require definition”

musahham ,

“striped mantles”

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the qaṭīfah ,

“a velvet cloak”

the muṭraf ,

“a cloak of silk-wool, rectangular, with decorated borders”

the janiyyah ,

“a cloak of silk-wool”

jīm ,

“silk brocade”

sundus ,

“a kind of bizyawn , 634or a kind of fine silk brocade”

istabraq ,

“thick silk brocade, or silk brocade worked with gold, or tightly woven silk garments”

mushajjar ,

“silk brocade that is mushajjar is that which has on it designs in the form of trees ( shajar )”

the sibb ,

“a length of fine cloth; synonym sabībah ”

the ṭarīdah ,