Maria is wearing a burqa.
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Burqa
//ˈbɜː.kə//
Synonyms for "burqa" (3 found)
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Translations
73 translations across 52 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- burkë noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Arabic
1 entries- بُرْقُع noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Armenian
2 entries- բուրկա noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
- փարանջա noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- pərəncə noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Belarusian
1 entries- паранджа́ noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Bengali
1 entries- বোরকা noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Bulgarian
1 entries- фередже́ noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Catalan
1 entries- burca noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 布嘎 noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
- 布爾卡 /布尔卡 noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
- 波卡 noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
- 罩袍 noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Czech
1 entries- burka noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Danish
1 entries- burka noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Dari
1 entries- بُرْقَع noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Dutch
1 entries- boerka noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Esperanto
1 entries- burko noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Faroese
1 entries- burka noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Finnish
1 entries- burka noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
French
2 entries- burqa noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
- voile intégral noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Georgian
2 entries- ბურკა noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
- პარანჯა noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
German
1 entries- Burka noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Greek
2 entries- μπούρκα noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
- φερετζές noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Gujarati
1 entries- બુરખો noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Hebrew
1 entries- בּוּרְקָה noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Hindi
2 entries- बुरक़ा noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
- बुरका noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Hungarian
1 entries- burka noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Icelandic
1 entries- búrka noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Indonesian
2 entries- burkak noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
- burqa noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Ingrian
1 entries- parandža noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Iranian Persian
2 entries- بُرْقَع noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
- فَرَجی noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Japanese
1 entries- ブルカ noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Kazakh
3 entries- бурқа noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
- паранжа noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
- паранжы noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Korean
1 entries- 부르카 noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- беренжи noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
- паранжы noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Macedonian
2 entries- бурка noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
- фереџе noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Malay
1 entries- burqa noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- ferencî noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- burka noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- فراجه noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Pashto
1 entries- بورقه noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Polish
1 entries- burka noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Portuguese
1 entries- burca noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Russian
3 entries- бу́рка noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
- паранджа́ noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
- чадра́ noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- bȗrka noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
- fèredža noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
- бу̑рка noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
- фѐреџа noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Spanish
2 entries- burka noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
- burqa noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Swahili
1 entries- barakoa noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Swedish
1 entries- burka noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Tajik
1 entries- фаранҷӣ noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Tatar
1 entries- пәрәнҗә noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Turkish
2 entries- burka noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
- ferace noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Ukrainian
1 entries- паранджа́ noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Urdu
1 entries- بُرْقَع noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Uyghur
1 entries- پەرەنجە noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Uzbek
1 entries- paranji noun (female garment that covers the whole body)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
The burqa is a choice.
Source: tatoeba (3154403)
As we no longer alter the spellings of loanwords to match typical English spelling conventions, this leads to many words with unusual spellings, like "guanxi", "qarin", "kawaii" and "burqa".
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"Did you know that his daughter wears a burqa?" "It's not a burqa, mum, it's called a hijab!"
Source: tatoeba (9772438)
Showing 4 of 8 available sentences.
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