Through her gauzy yashmak I could see that she was smiling.
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Yashmak
//ˈjæʃ.mæk//
Synonyms for "yashmak" (7 found)
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48 translations across 26 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- خِمَار noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
- نِقَاب noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- yaşmaq noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 面紗 /面纱 noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
Czech
1 entries- nikáb noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
Dutch
1 entries- nikab noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
Finnish
1 entries- niqab noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
French
3 entries- litham noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
- niqab noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
- voile noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
German
2 entries- Niqab noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
- Schleier noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
Hindi
2 entries- नकाब noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
- निक़ाब noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
Hungarian
2 entries- jasmak noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
- nikáb noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
Indonesian
2 entries- niqab noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
- purdah noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
Japanese
1 entries- ヤシュマク noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
Kazakh
1 entries- ниқаб noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
Malay
2 entries- niqab noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
- purdah noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
Maltese
1 entries- yaxmak noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- پرده noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
- یاشمق noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
Persian
2 entries- روبنده noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
- نقاب noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
Polish
4 entries- czarczaf noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
- jaszmak noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
- kwef noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
- nikab noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
Portuguese
1 entries- niqab noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
Romanian
1 entries- iașmac noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
Russian
4 entries- вуа́ль noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
- ника́б noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
- чадра́ noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
- яшма́к noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- marama noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
- veo noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
- zar noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
- вео noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
Spanish
1 entries- nicab noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
Swedish
2 entries- nikab noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
- niqab noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
Turkish
1 entries- yaşmak noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
Urdu
1 entries- نقاب noun (a veil worn by Muslim women)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
Mungo cannot make out her face, which is concealed behind a yashmak – the double horsehair veil worn by Muslim women in public – but he is immediately struck by her feet and hands.
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