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A keffiyeh is a square cloth traditionally worn on the head (and sometimes the shoulders) by Arab men, often folded into a triangle and held with a cord. Many are woven in a check pattern: black and white, or red and white. It keeps off sun, dust, and wind, so it is practical clothing, not a costume. In recent decades the black-and-white keffiyeh has also become a strong political symbol, especially tied to Palestinian identity, and you will see it worn around the neck as a scarf far from the Middle East. Spellings vary (keffiyeh, kaffiyeh, kufiya). It is not a : a is wound cloth; a keffiyeh is a draped square. In English it is a borrowed cultural word, used in news and everyday talk when people mean this specific headcloth.
阿拉伯頭巾、克菲耶(格紋那一種;黑白格在新聞裡常連到巴勒斯坦)
組成English borrowed it from Arabic كُوفِيَّة (kūfiyya). It does not split into English pieces.
同家族的字
- kofiakofia, an East African cap, is a doublet: both names come from the same Arabic word kūfiyya
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
keffiyehnoun/kəˈfiː(j)ə/
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An Iraqi headdress from the city of Kufa that is traditionally worn by some Arabs, also used as a scarf.
- Hos head showed again the dignity of the Arab dress, the inevitable keffiyah of black and white held in place by the black silk agal.
- This guy's already awake! And chipper! He wraps on a keffiyeh!
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。