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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
niqaabi is a noun meaning "an observant Muslim woman who covers her face and hands when in public or in the presence of any man outside her immediate family". It carries one recorded sense.
an observant Muslim woman who covers her face and hands when in public or in the presence of any man outside her immediate family
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for niqaabi come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.