chador

English

Alternative forms

• chadar, chaddar, chuddar, chadah, chader, chadur, chuddah, chudder, chuddur, chudah

Etymology

From Hindi चादर (cādar), from Classical Persian چادر (čādar, čādur), from Sanskrit छत्त्र (chattra). Doublet of chatra and chatta.

Spelling possibly influenced by modern Iranian Persian چادر (čâdor) or another language.

Noun

chador (plural chadors)

1. A loose robe made from a single cloth, worn as a combination head covering, veil and shawl by chiefly Muslim women (and occasionally by those of other faiths) in Iran and South Asia.

   Synonym: buibui

   Holonym: hijab

   Coordinate terms: aba, abaya, burka, chadri, niqab

   • 1625, [Samuel] Purchas, “The English Ambassadors arrivall at Surat”, in Purchas His Pilgrimes. […], 1st part, London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 530, line 42:

     The Commodities are infinite: […] Pintados, Chints and Chadors, Shashes and Girdles, Cannakens […]

   • 2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 262:

     The first few times Dolly stepped out into the city, cloaked by a chaddar that impaired her vision, she intuitively grabbed Sekond Lal's hand.

Translations

a loose robe worn by women

• Arabic: شَادُور m (šādur)
• Armenian: չադրա (hy) (čʻadra)
• Azerbaijani: çador
• Belarusian: чадра́ f (čadrá)
• Bengali: চাদর (bn) (cador)
• Catalan: xador (ca) m
• Czech: čádor m
• Danish: chador
• Dutch: chador (nl)
• Esperanto: ĉadoro
• Finnish: tšador
• French: tchador (fr) m, chador (fr) m
• Georgian: ჩადრი (ka) (čadri)
• German: Tschador (de) m
• Hindi: चादर (hi) f (cādar)
• Hungarian: csador (hu)
• Japanese: チャドル (ja) (chadoru), チャードル (chādoru)
• Kazakh: шадыра (şadyra)
• Korean: 차도르 (ko) (chadoreu)
• Kyrgyz: чүмбөт (ky) (cümböt)
• Norwegian: chador
• Pashto: چادري (ps) f (čādarí), بوغره (ps) f (boǧrá)
• Persian:

  Classical Persian: چادر (fa) (čādur)

  Dari Persian: چادر (fa) (čādar)

  Iranian Persian: چادر (fa) (čâdor)

• Polish: czador (pl) m, czadra (pl) f
• Portuguese: xador (pt)
• Russian: чадра́ (ru) f (čadrá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ча̏дор m, ша̏тор m

  Roman: čȁdor (sh) m, šȁtor (sh) m

• Slovene: čador m
• Spanish: chador m
• Tajik: чодар (čodar)
• Turkish: çador (tr)
• Ukrainian: чадра́ f (čadrá)
• Urdu: چادر f (ćādar)
• Uzbek: chodir (uz)
• Vietnamese: chàng mạng

Anagrams

• Achord, Ardoch, Dorcha

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Urdu چادر (cādar), from Classical Persian چادر (čādur).

Noun

chador c (singular definite chadoren, plural indefinite chadorer)

1. chador

References

• “chador” in Den Danske Ordbog

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English chador, from Hindi चादर (cādar), from Classical Persian چادر (čādar, čādur), from Sanskrit छत्त्र (chattra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaˈdɔr/
• Rhymes: -ɔr
• Hyphenation: cha‧dòr

Noun

chador m (invariable)

1. chador (loose robe worn by Muslim women)

References

• chador in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English chador.

Noun

chador m (plural chadores)

1. Alternative spelling of xador

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian چادر (čādur), from Sanskrit छत्त्र (chattra).

Noun

chador m (plural chadores)

1. chador (robe)

Further reading

• “chador”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16