English

Noun

hijabi ‎(plural hijabis)

1. A woman who wears a hijab.
   • 2008, Saba Alvi, An Analysis of how Hijabi Youth Experience Social Activities in Ottawa Secondary Schools (ISBN 0494485868)

     The findings and implications of this study have been categorized into themes in order to illustrate the essence of how hijabi youth experience social activities in Ottawa secondary schools.

   • 2011, Farheen Khan, From Behind the Veil: A Hijabi's Journey to Happiness (ISBN 1596597100)
   • 2014, Nitin Agarwal, Online Collective Action (ISBN 3709113407), page 219:

     […] state that their motivation for blogging is to promote Islamic-appropriate dress, modest fashion options, and pride in the American hijabi identity. They blog to share ideas about designing couture that is both fashionable and modest, […]

   • 2014, Shabana Mir, Muslim American Women on Campus: Undergraduate Social Life (ISBN 1469610809):

     Almost all hijabis I encountered—except Intisar, Elizabeth, Sharmila, and Muna—were chic hijabis typically garbed in attractive, elegant, yet modest ensembles.

2. (chiefly in an African context) Alternative form of hijab.
   • 1999, Civil Society and the Political Imagination in Africa (ISBN 0226114139), page 239:

     Unlike sheer veils that hug shoulders suggestively and espouse their wearer's movements gracefully, the stiff brocade of the hijabi hides a woman's upper torso so completely as to render impossible the definition of her body contours.

   • 2009, Adeline Masquelier, Women and Islamic Revival in a West African Town (ISBN 0253003466), page 228:

     As an example of the way dress functions as “public display” (LeBlanc 2000:448), the hijabi is worn when going out— whether on top of one's “good clothes” or over one's everyday faded clothes. One would not wear a hijabi to attend a […]

   • 2013, African Dress: Fashion, Agency, Performance (ISBN 0857858203), page 97:

     […] if I waited for it to dry I would be wasting my time. So I asked if there was anyone in the house who had a hijabi. There was not one, except a […]