djellabah


Also found in: Wikipedia.

djel·la·ba

or djel·la·bah also jel·la·ba  (jə-lä′bə) or ga·la·bi·a (gə-lä′bē-ə)
n.
A long, loose, hooded garment with full sleeves, worn especially in Muslim countries.

[French, from Arabic jallāba, variant of Arabic jallābīya (perhaps originally meaning "garment worn by traders"), from jallāb, trader, importer, from jalaba, to attract, bring, fetch, import; see glb in Semitic roots.]
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

djel•la•bah

or djel•la•ba

(dʒəˈlɑ bə)

n., pl. -bahs or -bas.
a loose-fitting hooded gown or robe worn by men in North Africa.
[1915–20; < Arabic jallabah]
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
Translations

djellabah

[ˈdʒeləbə] Nchilaba f
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
Mentioned in ?
References in periodicals archive ?
I walked toward it and, as I approached, the dot looked more like a djellabah crowned by a pointed hood.
La valeur marchande de cette saisie, composee de 460 souliers, 200 djellabah pour femme,....
Tous habilles d'un meme costume ou presque : Djellabah de couleur blanche, turban blanc ou jaune et un fil de laine rouge, ornemente en [beaucoup moins que] mouzoun [beaucoup plus grand que] brillant.
Merah, lying on the ground below his second-storey apartment, was wearing a flak jacket and black djellabah robe.
This lack of any concrete support for the culturalist position helps explain the sense of relief, even excitement, in certain political circles when it became known that van Gogh was killed by a jihadist with a beard and djellabah: Mow nobody can deny, the chorus chanted.
(161) Even more familiar to the Western reader is the mother's detailed description of her suffering in traditional clothing: "I had to keep my djellabah hood on my head for days at a time, and even though this made me sweat I couldn't take it off until I got home.
a man wearing a djellabah on a bicycle selling postcards of his sister; one heavily armed electric scooter; a rapid attack Peugeot 304 GL; the Al Chokey-Chokey lst Diesel Taxis; and the Saddam Household Private Light Goods.
What is reiterated and haunts the narrative is that Nissim was dressed in a white djellabah and a cotton turban when the narrator imagines having seen him last.