haik

American  

[hahyk, heyk] / haɪk, heɪk /

Or haick

noun

1. an oblong cloth used as an outer garment by the Arabs.

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haik British  

/ heɪk, haɪk /

noun

1. an Arab's outer garment of cotton, wool, or silk, for the head and body

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Etymology

Origin of haik

1605–15; < Arabic hā'ik, hayk, akin to ḥāk weave

Example Sentences

One night last week, when Djamila, other relatives, and neighbors trooped homeward, the group also included an extra, heavily cloaked figure in a Moslem woman's head-to-foot white haik.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a tall man with haik over his turban, and blue selam on top of a yellow kaftan.

From The Blind Mother and The Last Confession by Caine, Hall, Sir

The white haik, or toga, is fastened around the temples.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 by Various

For Ibrahim that night was unwell, and was sleeping smothered in his haik.

From Bella Donna A Novel by Hichens, Robert Smythe

Their bodies were enveloped in a coarse haik, a species of serge of their own manufacture.

From Travels through the Empire of Morocco by Buffa, John