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A Burqa; also transliterated burkha, burka or burqua from Arabic; is an enveloping outer garment worn by women in some Islamic traditions to cover their bodies in public places. The Burqa is usually understood to be the women's loose body-covering, plus the head-covering, plus the face veil.
The word comes from the Arabic root /r/+/q/+/ʕ/, which means "to patch up" or "to sew up". The face-veil portion is usually a rectangular piece of semi-transparent cloth whose top side is sewn to corresponding portion of the head-scarf, so that the veil hangs down loose from the scarf, and it can be turned up if the woman wishes to reveal her face (otherwise the whole face would be covered). In other cases, the niqāb part can be a side-attached cloth that covers the face below the eyes' region.
The face-veil portion is also called purdah, a Persian word meaning "curtain".
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burqa
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