Yashmak
{{Short description|Turkish and Turkmen type of veil or niqab worn by women}}
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{{Islamic female dress}}
A yashmak, yashmac or yasmak (from {{langx|tr|yaşmak}}, "a veil"From an identical Old Turkic verb meaning "to cover, hide". The original verb has become obsolete and a new verb, {{lang|tr|yaşmak-la-mak}} [segmented {{lang|la|ad hoc}}], "to veil", has developed.) is a Turkish and Turkmen type of veil or niqāb worn by women to cover their faces in public. Today, there is almost no usage of this garment in Turkey. In Turkmenistan, however, it is still consciously used by some married women in the presence of elder relatives of a husband.{{cite book|author=Adrienne Lynn Edgar|title=Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Q11AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA235|date=5 September 2006|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-1-4008-4429-6|pages=235–238}}{{cite book|author1=Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood|author2=W. J. Vogelsang|title=Covering the Moon: An Introduction to Middle Eastern Face Veils|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6JknAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA61|date=1 December 2008|publisher=Peeters|isbn=978-90-429-1990-7|pages=200–206}}
Description
Unlike an ordinary veil, a yashmak contains a head-veil and a face-veil in one, thus consisting of two pieces of fine muslin, one tied across the face under the nose, and the other tied across the forehead draping the head.
A yashmak can also include a rectangle of woven black horsehair attached close to the temples and sloping down like an awning to cover the face, called peçe, or it can be a veil covered with pieces of lace, having slits for the eyes, tied behind the head by strings and sometimes supported over the nose by a small piece of gold.
See also
Notes
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Sources
- {{cite book|author=Adrienne Lynn Edgar|title=Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Q11AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA235|date=5 September 2006|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-1-4008-4429-6|pages=235–238}}
- {{cite book|author1=Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood|author2=W. J. Vogelsang|title=Covering the Moon: An Introduction to Middle Eastern Face Veils|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6JknAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA61|date=1 December 2008|publisher=Peeters|isbn=978-90-429-1990-7|pages=61–63}}
External links
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- [http://www.kismeta.com/diGrasse/OttomanCostume.htm "The Costumes of Ottoman Women"]
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Category:Islamic female clothing
Category:Clothing of the Ottoman Empire
Category:Turkish words and phrases
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