djellaba

From French djellaba, from Moroccan Arabic جلابة‎ (jellāba), from جالب‎ (jallb, “attractive”) (from جلب‎ (jálaba, “to bring, fetch”)). Compare glb in Semitic roots.

djellaba (plural djellabas)

1. A loose-fitting, ankle-length hooded robe worn by men in North Africa.
   • 1988, Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, A Street in Marrakech: A Personal View of Urban Women in Morocco:

     Dignified gentlemen in sober djellabas, of excellent cut and material, their wives in equally sober djellabas, sat in the tea shops with their children and servants, sipping mint tea.

• djellabah
• galabea, galabeah, galabia, galabiah, galabieh, galabiya, galabiyah, gallabea, gallabeah, gallabia, gallabiah, gallabieh, gallabiya, gallabiyah, gallabiyeh
• jalabiah, jalabiya, jalabiyah, jellabiya
• jilaabah, jellaba
• jelab (archaic)

djellaba f (plural djellabas)

1. djellaba