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Veil vs Hijab - What's the difference?

veil | hijab |

As nouns the difference between veil and hijab

is that veil is something hung up, or spread out, to hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphanous material, to hide or protect the face while hijab is the practice, among Muslim women, of covering the body after the age of puberty in front of non-related adult males.

As a verb veil

is to don, or garb with, a veil.

veil

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something hung up, or spread out, to hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphanous material, to hide or protect the face.
  • * Bible, Matthew xxvii. 51
    • The veil of the temple was rent in twain.
  • * Milton
    • She, as a veil down to the slender waist, / Her unadorned golden tresses wore.
  • A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
  • * Shakespeare
    • [I will] pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming Mistress Page.
  • * 2007 . Zerzan, John. Silence . p. 4.
    • Beckett complains that "in the forest of symbols" there is never quiet, and longs to break through the veil of language to silence.
  • The calyptra of mosses.
  • A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum.
  • A covering for a person or thing; as, a caul; a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil; a Moslem veil.
  • (zoology) velum (A circular membrane round the cap of medusa)
  • (mycology) A thin layer of tissue which is attached to or covers a mushroom.

    • Verb

  • To don, or garb with, a veil.
  • To conceal as with a veil.
    • The forest fire was veiled by smoke, but I could hear it clearly.

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    hijab

    English

    (wikipedia hijab) ("hijab on Wikiquote")

    Alternative forms

    * hejab * hijaab * * hajib, hijabi (nonstandard)

    Noun

  • (uncountable, Islam) The practice, among Muslim women, of covering the body after the age of puberty in front of non-related adult males.
  • * 2010 , Jawairriya Abdallah-Shahid, Veiled Voices (ISBN 1450053025), page 13:
    • The belief that Muslim females observe hijab because men force them to do so insults some Muslim females who have based their decision on their understanding of Islam.
  • (countable) A traditional headscarf worn by Muslim women, covering the hair and neck.

    • Related terms

    * hijabi

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