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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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ḥiǧāb حِجاب , pl. ḥuǧub, var. ʔaḥǧibaẗ 
ID 192 • Sw – • BP 2373 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ḤǦB 
n. 
1 cover, wrap, drape; 2 curtain; 3 woman’s veil; 4 screen, partition, folding screen; 5 barrier, bar; 6 diaphragm (also al-ḥiǧāb al-ḥāǧiz, n. (anat.)); 7 amulet – WehrCowan1976. 
▪ From ↗ḥaǧaba ʻto veil, screen, separate, shelter, protect’.
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▪ See ↗ḥaǧaba.
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▪ See above, section CONC.
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl hijab, from Ar ḥiǧāb ‘curtain, veil’, from ḥaǧaba ‘to veil, cover’. 
►ḥaǧǧaba, vb. II, 1a to veil, hide, conceal; b to hide from sight, keep in seclusion (‑hā a woman); c to disguise, mask (bi‑ s.th. with): D-stem, can in some respects be regarded as denom. deriv. from ḥiǧāb.
►taḥaǧǧaba, vb. V, to conceal o.s., hide (ʕan from), flee from sight, veil o.s.: Dt-stem, refl. of II.

►muḥaǧǧab, adj., veiled, wearing a ḥiǧāb: PP II, denom. from ḥiǧāb.

For other values of the root, cf. ↗ḥaǧaba and ↗ḥāǧib as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√ḤǦB. 
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