What's The Name Of The Headband That Arab Men Use To Hold Their Head Covering In Place

[sandyRoe]

?

[eanceoil]

an agal

[Sqad]

iqal.

[eanceoil]

both answers correct sandyroe, depends if you are just curious or doing a crossword https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agal_(accessory)

[sandyRoe]

Agal or iqal are iqually acceptable. It was just curiosity.

[Peter Pedant]

jesus I didnt know

the q is a hard g in Egyptian Southern Arabic ( Gufti from Qift or Genawi from Qena - sudduv geddit ? )

The q is a glottal stop in Cairo ( as an essex chav says the t in bottle )
so that would be ift or ena or i'al

and it is a qaf in classical arabic which english doesnt have - try to do a 'k' with your larynx rather than upper throat

thanks I did wonder - any ideas for the woolen skull cap is ( any dialect )

[Mamyalynne]

This one?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taqiyah_(cap)

[Peter Pedant]

Oh thx mamal
the head band is usually called kefiyah

I dont think I ever pointed to a skull cap as it tended to stay on the head where as the keffiyah tends to go everywhere....

kufi from the article appears to be related to 'kepa; /kay-pah/ Hebrew ooer so I dont think that may catch on ( Arabic and Hebrew are both semitic languages whether or not the cultural groups are at each others' throats )
which is very very near both caput and cephale the latin and greek. Latin loan words do occur in Arabic - qalam - calamus scriptorius - reed pen springs effortessly to mind .....

thx mama

[Mamyalynne]

You're welcome.x

[sandyRoe]

And the word alcohol smoothly glided down from Arabic to us in the west. :-)

[Peter Pedant]

khalil ( Arabic Science - I am aware of the screaming irony of reading about Muslim science and culture of a thousand years ago whilst now their descendants gladly massacre christian women and children ) describes Latin into Arabic into English

Oh ! it could be Alembic

alembic
Origin
Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin alembicus, from Arabic al-'anbīq, from al- ‘the’ + 'anbīq ‘still’ (from Greek ambix, ambik- ‘cup, cap of a still’).