Baṭūlah: (Arabic), face mask covering the chin or slightly more, with varying eye cut-outs. Used by women in Bahrain, Emirates, Qatar, Oman, and southern Iran. More widely known in the Arab world as (burqa’) where the letter [qaf] in many Arab regions is pronounced [gah].
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