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Wiktionary
n. (synonym of aba English)
WordNet
n : (Arabic) a loose black robe from head to toe; traditionally worn by Muslim women
Wikipedia
The abaya "cloak" ( colloquially and more commonly, , especially in Literary Arabic: ; plural , ), sometimes also called an aba, is a simple, loose over- garment, essentially a robe-like dress, worn by some women in parts of the Muslim world including in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Traditional abayat are black and may be either a large square of fabric draped from the shoulders or head or a long caftan. The abaya covers the whole body except the face, feet, and hands. It can be worn with the niqāb, a face veil covering all but the eyes. Some women also wear long black gloves, so their hands are covered as well.
The Indonesian and Malaysian women's traditional dress kebaya gets its name from the abaya.
Abaya is one of the woredas in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. It is part of former Gelana Abaya woreda what was divided for Abaya and Gelana woredas. Part of the Borena Zone, Gelana Abaya was bordered on the south by Hagere Mariam, and on the west, north and east by the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region (SNNPR). Lake Abaya, on the western border, is divided between this woreda and the SNNPR. However, the Guji Oromo who live in Nechisar National Park are claimed to be administratively part of this woreda, in a kebele called "Irgansaa".
The abaya is an Islamic dress.
Abaya may also refer to:
- Abaya (surname)
- Lake Abaya, a lake in Ethiopia
- Abaya (woreda), a woreda in Ethiopia
Abaya is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- César Abaya (born 1984), Chadian professional football player
- Craig Abaya (born 1979), American musician
- Joseph Emilio Abaya (born 1966), Filipino politician
- Marc Abaya (born 1979), Filipino musician and television host
Usage examples of "abaya".
A woman shrouded from head to toe in the ubiquitous abaya scuttled like a black spider beneath candlelit second stories and balconies on the narrow, cobbled street.
Besides the body-cloaking black abaya, she wore a traditional white pushi that covered most of her face and revealed only her dark eyes, which were neither properly downcast nor idle.
Instantly she pulled dinars from her voluminous abaya, slid into the throng, and added her voice to those calling for the farmer's merchandise.
The bent old woman in the black abaya and face-hiding pushi who had carried the message to the King Sargon Hotel threaded among pedestrians and past plywood stalls where used parts and Iraqi ingenuity for repair flourished.
He spun just in time to see the woman in the long black abaya slide like a shadow out the front door.
Her long abaya flapping around her legs, she moved as swiftly as her bent shape allowed back toward the tire shop.
About ten minutes before his plane was to board, a tall Muslim woman wearing the traditional black head covering and long black robesa pushi and abaya, not the chador, which covered the eyes as well as the head and bodysat down across the aisle from him.
Numbers of locals, heading for the buses, came straight down Abaya Prospekt and passed directly in front of Sergei's bench.
Because the Prophet had worn a beard and a loose-fitting abaya, so did he.