Similar words: bay, bayou, at bay, bayonet, bombay, sickbay, bay leaf, keep at bay. Meaning: n. (Arabic) a loose black robe from head to toe; traditionally worn by Muslim women.
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(1) Her abaya was beautifully embroidered.
(2) A woman in a brown abaya, hijab and gloves proceeded forward.
(3) Ammar gave me his business card. "Ammar Stores - exporter, " it said. "Abaya factory, oriental gifts, leather goods, all kinds of ladies' wear. "
(4) Some wearing traditional long black abaya, others clad in jeans and T-shirts[sentencedict.com], wait to see a female doctor.
(5) For example, almost all Qatari women wear the black abaya (also donned in Saudi Arabia).
(6) He was a silent even kind of shy man. He was thin and had bushy whiskers and he looked like a weak scholar as he often weared a white abaya and speaked gently.
(7) On a recent afternoon at the main Sadr office in Sadr City, a woman dressed in a black head-to-toe abaya arrived and began explaining that her husband was beating her.
(8) When I met her in a Sanaa newspaper office, she was wearing a third-grader-size black abaya, the full covering Yemeni women use in public after puberty.
(9) In keeping with their strict religious observance, his wife was dressed in a black abaya, a draping gown, as well as the full head covering often referred to as hijab.
(10) She came out Friday with her two young daughters, and spoke through the veil of her black abaya, decorated with an Egyptian-flag headband.
(11) Luckily, the stores in Kuwait stay open until after 2 am in the run up to Eid. So, I was able to race out and buy an abaya (a loose gown) just after midnight.
More similar words: bay, bayou, at bay, bayonet, bombay, sickbay, bay leaf, keep at bay, bay window, hudson bay, bay of bengal, bay of naples, chesapeake bay, san francisco bay, maya, mayan, kayak, aba, play at, malaya, papaya, stay at, gaba, payable, gray area, play away, ramayana, stay away, pay a call, layabout.