Etymologies
- Arabic دشداشة (dišdāšä). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Ferraris also mis-uses alhumdil’Allah, she writes bazaar instead of suq; and I heard it called a dishdasha more often than a thobe, and gutra or shamgh rather than keffiyeh which is Palestinian.”
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“He explained that the kandura is the official dress of the Emirates but other countries have their own version of the kandura, also known as a dishdasha, thawb, throbe or suriyah depending what country you are in.”
“He was dressed in the traditional Arab garment that looked like a long nightshirt known as a dishdasha.”
“Men wear an ankle-length, loose-fitting garment, known as kandoura or dishdasha, which is usually made of white cotton, although darker, heavier materials may sometimes be seen in the winter.”
“After the man disappeared, a thin, kindly old man in a dishdasha and a white knit prayer cap came and stood over me.”
“At the counter, he held an urgent conference with the cook, a plump young man in a dirty dove gray dishdasha.”
“He was wearing a long white dishdasha and bearing a karaoke machine.”
““And he is wearing a dishdasha and dressed like a sheikh.””
“(Soundbite of laughter) SAGAL: On the off chance that any of our bosses at NPR are listening, whenever I get on a plane and see guys in Muslim garb, I always think - that, my friend, is a handsome dishdasha.”
“As the top was tossed away, a haggard man in a charcoal-colored dishdasha began to move.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dishdasha’.
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250 Cherry-Picked Words
Juicy words for the intermediate and advanced speller
consomme, miniaceous, nankeen, smaragdine, stramineous, vitellary, allemande, beguine, bransle, charabanc, margaritaceous, chaconne and 238 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, D
dodecahedron, din, diglyceride, dysphotopsia, decoction, deboss, diatonic, dithyramb, divagate, discalced, dishdasha, daft and 281 more...
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Newsweek
All the words that are fit to be made up. Or, you know, to get into a weekly newsmagazine. I've been meaning to make this list for a long time.
brohawk, blasian, ghitalian, mcmansion, mcstrip mall, cornet wales, i could tell you ..., mackerel-snapper, tous les beaux es..., in the tank, longheadedness, kusa and 101 more...
Tweets
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reesetee Also kandura or khameez, yes? Or are they all different? Apr 24, 2008
bilby Also known as a thawb. Apr 24, 2008
reesetee I always loved this word. :-) Apr 24, 2008
chained_bear "Dressed in a gray pin-striped dishdasha and sporting a walrus mustache ..."
Kevin Paraino, "Destination Martyrdom," Newsweek (April 28, 2008), 27 Apr 23, 2008