جُنَّةٌ
Root: جن
Full Definition
جُنَّةٌ
A thing by which a person is veiled, concealed, hidden, covered, or protected: an arm, or armour, with which one protects himself: anything protective: or coats of mail, and any defensive, or protective, arm or armour: pl. جُنَنٌ.
2 A piece of cloth which a woman wears, covering the fore and kind parts of her head, but not the middle of it, and covering the face, and the two sides of the bosom, or, accord. to the M, the ornaments [حُلِىّ instead of جَنْبَى] of the bosom, and having two eyeholes, like the بُرْقُع.
2 A piece of cloth which a woman wears, covering the fore and kind parts of her head, but not the middle of it, and covering the face, and the two sides of the bosom, or, accord. to the M, the ornaments [حُلِىّ instead of جَنْبَى] of the bosom, and having two eyeholes, like the بُرْقُع.
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