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The abaya (colloquially and more commonly, Arabic: عباية ʿabāyah, especially in Literary Arabic: عباءة ʿabā'ah; plural عبايات ʿabāyāt, عباءات ʿabā'āt), sometimes also called an aba, is a simple, loose over-garment, essentially a robe-like dress, worn by some women in the Muslim world including most of the Middle East, North Africa, and parts of the Horn of ...
Balinese girls wearing kebaya. The kebaya is the national attire of women from Indonesia, although it is more accurately endemic to the Javanese, Sundanese and Balinese peoples. [2]
Abaya عباية Full-length, robe-like outer garment that covers the whole body except the head, feet, and hands. Usually worn with a headscarf or (especially in Saudi Arabia) gloves and niqab. al-Amira A two-piece veil. It consists of a close fitting cap, usually made from cotton or polyester, and an accompanying tube-like scarf. Bushiyya
A Qatari woman wearing an abaya and niqāb. The shayla, a black headscarf typically made of cotton, is used to conceal a woman's hair and neck. It is commonly worn even while at home. The ghashwa is a flowing, lightweight cotton fabric that fits over the abaya and shayla, used in public places to cover a woman's head. [3]
A kebaya [n 1] is an upper garment traditionally worn by women in Southeast Asia, notably in Brunei, [9] Indonesia, [10] Malaysia, [8] Singapore, [11] and Southern Thailand. [12] ...
While a few women in Egypt wear a black niqab along with a billowing black abaya as seen in countries such as Saudi Arabia, many choose to wear different colors of the niqab or manipulate the hijab to cover their face. Regardless, the growing trend of munaqqabat, or women who wear the niqab, has alarmed the authorities. They have begun to see ...
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When in public, most women in cities wear the abaya, a modest black dress or cloak worn over the clothes, and the hijab, the typical Muslim hair covering. [3]