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

“an oblong length of silk cloth”

saraq ,

“oblong lengths of white silk, or of silk generally”

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the batt ,

“a taylasān of silk-wool or the like”

the sundūs ,

“a green taylasān ”

the ṭils ,

“a black taylasān ”

the ṭāq ,

“a taylasān , or a green taylasān ”

the sāj ,

“a green and black taylasān ”

the ṣuttiyyah ,

“an enveloping over-robe, or a certain Yemeni garment”

the shawdhar ,

“an enveloping over-robe, or a mid-leg shift”

the duwāj ,

“a sheet of cloth worn as a garment”

the mishmāl ,

“an enveloping over-robe”

the lifāʿ ,

“an enveloping over-robe, or a wrap, or a mat of hide, or a mantle, or anything that a woman wraps around herself”

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the murajjal ,

“a waist wrap of silk-wool with a decorated border”

the mudārah ,

“an embroidered waist wrap”

the ḥaqw ,

“a waist wrap”; synonym khiṣār

the ṣidād ,

“anything a woman veils herself with; synonym sitr ”

fuwaṭ ,

“garments imported from Sind, or striped waist wraps”

the dithār ,

“any cloth worn over the shiʿār ”

ḥulal ,

“singular ḥullah , meaning a waist wrap, or a robe, or a mantle, or anything else of the same sort; a ḥullah always consists of two pieces of cloth or a single piece with a lining”

the sirbāl ,

“a shirt, or a chemise, or anything that is worn”

the qurṭaq ,

“a garment, too well known to require definition”

the yalmaq ,

“a tunic” (Arabized from yalmah )

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qarqar ,

“women’s garments”

the qurzaḥ ,

“a garment that their women used to wear”

the mifḍal ,

“the mifḍal , the mifḍalah , and the fuḍul are garments which women wear long, so that they trail on the ground, or which they wrap themselves in”

the ḥiqāb ,

“a thing onto which women hang ornaments and which they tie around their waists; synonym ḥaqab ”

the niṭāq ,

“a length of cloth that a woman wears and ties around her middle in such a way that the upper part hangs down over the lower, reaching the ground, and the lower trails on the ground,” etc.

the mijann ,

“the wishāḥ ” (already mentioined under the rubric of ornaments)

the itb ,

“a woman’s collarless sleeveless mantle split down the sides, or a baqīrah , or a woman’s shirt”

the jawb ,

“a woman’s dirʿ or shirt”

the uṣdah ,

“a shirt worn under a garment”

the khaylaʿ ,

“a sleeveless shirt”

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the rādiʿah ,

“a shirt that has been splashed with saffron or with perfume”

qumuṣ sunbulāniyyah ,

“long loose-fitting shirts, or those named after a town in Anatolia”

the shiʿār ,

“what is worn next to the hair of the body under the dithār ; also shaʿār ”

the qidʿah ,

“the mijwal , which is the small tunic split in front”

the jīd ,

“a small woolen open-fronted tunic”

the ghilālah ,

“any undergarment; synonym ghullah ”

haffāf ,

“ haffāf shirts are those that are fine and diaphanous, synonym hafhāf ”

the shalīl ,

“the undergarment that is worn under the chemise”

the qarqal ,

“a woman’s shirt, or a sleeveless garment”

the ghiṭāyah ,

“undergarments that a woman covers herself with, such as the ghilālah and the like”

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the farwah ,

“too well known to require definition” [“fur-edged coat”]

the sabanjūnah ,

“a coat edged with fox fur”

the shaʿrāʾ ,

“a fur-edged coat”

the mustuqah ,

“a fur-edged coat with long sleeves”

the khayʿal ,

“a fur, or a piece of cloth with unsewn edges, or a shift…” etc.

the miʿqab ,

“a woman’s head covering”

the niqāb ,

“anything with which a woman covers her face”

the khimār ,

“a naṣīf , which is a turban, or anything with which the head is covered”

waṣāwiṣ ,

“small face-veils that reveal the eyes”

the miqnaʿah ,

“anything with which a woman veils her head; the qināʿ … is wider”

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the ʿiṣābah ,

“anything tied around the head, or a turban”

the sīdārah ,

“a protective covering under the miqnaʿah and the miqnaʿ and the ʿiṣābah ”

the ʿamārah ,

“anything worn on the head”

the ʿamar ,

“a kerchief with which a free-born woman covers her head”

the khunbuʿah ,

“a small miqnaʿah for a woman”

the bukhnaq ,

“a piece of cloth that a girl covers her face with, tying the two ends under her chin to protect the khimār from moisture and the moisture from dust, or a small face-veil that reveals the eyes, or a small cloak”

the ṣiqāʿ ,

“a small face-veil that reveals the eyes… and a piece of cloth that protects the khimār from moisture; synonym ṣawqaʿah ”

the qunbuʿ ,

“a piece of sewn cloth resembling the burnus , or a khunbuʿah or something resembling it”

the qunzuʿah ,

“what a woman puts on her head, synonym qundhuʿah ”

the hunbuʿ ,

“something like a miqnaʿah for girls, the front of which is sewn”

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the qurzul ,

“the thing a woman puts on her head; synonym qunzuʿah ”

the junnah ,

“a piece of cloth a woman wears to cover her head in front and behind but not from the sides and which covers her face and the two sides of her chest; it has two eyeholes cut in it, like the burquʿ ”

tasākhīn ,

“boots, or things like a ṭaylasān ”

jarāmīq ,

“the jurmūq [singular] is the thing worn above the boot”

kawth ,

“the qafsh , meaning short boots, that are worn on the feet”

the rān ,

“a thing like a boot but with no foot and taller than a boot”

jawrab ,

“a wrapping for the feet; one says jawrabtuhu meaning ‘I put his stockings on for him’”

quffāz ,

“things stuffed with cotton made for the hands that a woman wears against the cold, or a kind of ornament, etc.”

and, to round this out, three hundred and sixty-five aḥbās and a similar number of maqārim (the ḥibs [singular] being a silver eyelet made in the middle of a red curtain, while the miqramah [singular] is a bedspread), plus the same number of pairs of underdrawers made of