dishdasha

/ ˈdɪʃˌdæʃə /

noun

1. a white long-sleeved collarless garment worn by Muslim men in the Arabian peninsula

Word History and Origins

Origin of dishdasha¹

Arabic

Example Sentences

On Thursday morning, Saudi wedding guests and tourists - the men wearing white dishdasha robes and the women in brightly colored abayas - filtered through the sleek marbled lobby of the Four Seasons Hotel in Amman.

From Washington Times

“Look, we are not going to leave this land, you brought us floods and drought to make us migrate. We won’t leave, this is our ancestral land,” the sheikh, Khalifah Marwan, wearing a white dishdasha and blue checkered head wrap, shouted at officials seated at a conference table, according to a video shared with The Times.

From New York Times

It was hot and there was no shade in the late afternoon as the men gathered, the older ones in traditional dishdasha, the younger ones in more Western clothes, but all looking anxious, afraid to be hopeful.

From New York Times

Our driver wore a traditional dishdasha, a long white robe, with a red-and-white scarf, the traditional kaffiyeh, atop his head.

From Washington Post

“I knew nothing about the dishdasha when I came here,” one Bangladeshi tailor said.

From New York Times