FromArabicعَبَايَة(ʕabāya). Compareaba. First attested in 1856.

• (General American)IPA^(key):/əˈbeɪ.jə/

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abaya (pluralabayas)

1. Synonym ofaba.
   • 2023 August 28, Aurelien Breeden, “France to Ban Full-Length Muslim Robes in Public Schools”, inThe New York Times‎^[1],→ISSN:

     France will bar children in public schools from wearing theabaya, a loosefitting, full-length robe worn by some Muslim women, the government said this week.

• Philip Babcock Gove (editor),Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909],→ISBN)
• Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abaya”, inThe Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.:Oxford University Press,→ISBN, page 2.

• 3abaya

Borrowed fromArabicعَبَايَة(ʕabāya).

• IPA^(key):/a.ba.ja/

abaya f (pluralabayas)

1. abaya

Borrowed fromArabicعَبَايَة(ʕabāya), alternative form ofعَبَاءَة(ʕabāʔa,“cloak”). .

• IPA^(key):[ˈabaja]
• Hyphenation:aba‧ya

abaya (pluralabaya-abaya)

1. abaya,aba

• “abaya” inKamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta:Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Unadapted borrowing fromArabicعَبَايَة(ʕabāya), alternative form ofعَبَاءَة(ʕabāʔa,“cloak”), derived from the rootع ب ء(ʕ b ʔ).

• IPA^(key):/aˈba.ja/
• Rhymes:-aja
• Hyphenation:a‧bà‧ya

abaya f (invariable)

1. (neologism,Islam)abaya,aba

• abaya in Treccani.it –Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Unadapted borrowing fromArabicعَبَايَة(ʕabāya), alternative form ofعَبَاءَة(ʕabāʔa,“cloak. frock”), derived from the rootع ب ء(ʕ b ʔ).

• IPA^(key):/aˈbaja/

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• Rhymes:-aja
• Hyphenation:ab‧ay‧a

abaya m (definite singularabayaen,indefinite pluralabayaer,definite pluralabayaene)

1. (Islam) anabaya, muslim women's piece of clothing used in the area around the Persian Gulf which consists of a long, black cloak that in some cases also covers the head
   • 2001 February 16,VG:

     aldri tidligere har så mange irakiske kvinner dekket seg til i den svarte abayaen

     never before have so many Iraqi women covered themselves in the black abaya

• chador(“chador”),burka(“burka”),hijab(“hijab”),kaftan(“kaftan”)

• “abaya” inThe Bokmål Dictionary.
• “abaya” inDet Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “abaya” inStore norske leksikon

• Rhymes:-aʝa
• Syllabification:a‧ba‧ya

abaya f (pluralabayas)

1. abaya

Borrowed fromArabicعَبَايَة(ʕabāya).

• (Standard Tagalog)IPA^(key):/ʔaˈbaja/[ʔɐˈbaː.jɐ]
• Rhymes:-aja
• Syllabification:a‧ba‧ya

abaya (Baybayin spellingᜀᜊᜌ)

1. abaya;aba(loose-fitting sleeveless garment, made from aba or silk, specially worn by women)

• “abaya”, inPambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila,2018

abaya

1. dativesingular ofaba

• abaa

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abaya

1. thoseover there,yonder;class 2 remote demonstrative.