burqa

Meanings

1. An enveloping Central Asian garment which covers the whole body, incorporating a netted screen to cover the eyes, chiefly worn by women in fundamentalist denominations of Islam to observe sartorial hijab (the practice of wearing concealing clothing in front of adult men after the age of puberty).
2. Another kind of garment worn by Muslim women (of any denomination) to observe sartorial hijab:
3. A garment incorporating a niqab (veil for the face).
4. A hijab (traditional headscarf covering the hair and neck), such as a khimar or shayla .

Etymology

From Hindustani بُرْقَع (burqa') / बुरक़ा (burqā), from Classical Persian بُرْقَع (burqa'), from Arabic بُرْقُع (burquʕ).