jellaba

1. 1.

   a loose cloak with a hood; worn in the Middle East and northern Africa

   Broadercloak

Other forms of jellaba

plural

jellabas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about jellaba

What does jellaba mean?

jellaba means "a loose cloak with a hood; worn in the Middle East and northern Africa".

How many syllables are in jellaba?

jellaba has 3 syllables: jel-la-ba. The stress falls on "jel".

Is jellaba a common word?

jellaba is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.