Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

غِطَايَةٌ

Root: غطو

Full Definition

غِطَايَةٌ A thing, of the stuffing of clothes, with which a woman has covered herself, beneath her clothes, such as the غِلَالَة [q. v.] and the like: [it is said that] the ى therein is substituted for و.


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