burka

Etymology 1
From  /, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) A Central Asian garment that covers the whole body, which has a net screen covering the eyes so they cannot be seen, and is worn by women.

Translations

 * Arabic: بُرْقُع
 * Armenian: փարանջա
 * Azerbaijani: pərəncə
 * Belarusian: паранджа́
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 波卡, 布嘎, 布爾卡
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: burko
 * Faroese: burka
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: პარანჯა
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: बुरक़ा,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: búrka
 * Indonesian: burqa
 * Ingrian: parandža
 * Japanese: ブルカ
 * Kazakh: бурқа, паранжы, паранжа
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: паранжы,
 * Macedonian: бурка, фереџе
 * Norwegian: burka
 * Ottoman Turkish: فراجه
 * Pashto: بورقه
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: бу̑рка, фѐреџа
 * Roman: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: barakoa
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: фаранҷӣ
 * Tatar:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: паранджа́
 * Urdu:
 * Uyghur: پەرەنجە
 * Uzbek:

Etymology 2
From ; further etymology is disputed.

Noun

 * 1) A dress made from felt or karakul (the short curly fur of young lambs of the breed of that name), traditionally worn by men of the Caucasus region.

Translations

 * Abaza: уапӏа
 * Abkhaz: ауа́па
 * Adyghe: кӏакӏо
 * Aghul: лит
 * Armenian:
 * Avar: бурти́на
 * Azerbaijani: yapıncı, kiyiz
 * Bagvalal: бу́туна
 * Budukh: йапунча́
 * Chamalal: бо́тун
 * Chechen: верта
 * Dargwa: варгьи
 * Esperanto: burko
 * Georgian: ნაბადი
 * Hunzib: къир, къу́ни
 * Ingush: ферта
 * Kabardian:
 * Karachay-Balkar: джамчы
 * Kumyk: ямучу
 * Lak: варси
 * Lezgi: япунжи
 * Mingrelian: ნაბადი
 * Nogai: ямышы
 * Ossetian: нымӕг
 * Russian:
 * Svan: ღა̈რთ
 * Tabasaran: япунжи́
 * Turkish:

Noun

 * 1)  female garment that covers the whole body

Noun

 * 1) long-nosed bandicoot

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) burka female garment

Etymology 1
Possibly from.

Noun

 * , female garment

Etymology
From or, from.

Noun

 * 1) a

Etymology
From or, from.

Noun

 * 1) a

Etymology 1
.

Etymology 2
.

Noun

 * 1)  long, voluminous outer garment with a hood and without sleeves, made of thick cloth, formerly worn when travelling

Noun

 * , burqa (female garment that covers the whole body)
 * 1)  (male garment from the Caucasus)

Noun

 * 1)  or burqa

Etymology
From

Noun

 * a

Usage notes

 * Compounds are formed with burka- including the a. Compounds with burk- are very rare due to the potential confusion with . In other terms such as /, this is considered an abomination that only belongs in colloquial usage.

Noun

 * 1) burqa
 * 2) burka