Definitions for yashmak

yashmak yash·mak

Spelling: [yahsh-mahk, yash-mak]
IPA: /yɑʃˈmɑk, ˈyæʃ mæk/

Yashmak is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 116 anagrams from letters in yashmak (aahkmsy).

Definitions for yashmak

noun

  1. the veil worn by Muslim women to cover the face in public.

Origin of yashmak

First recorded in 1835-45, yashmak is from the Turkish word yaşmak

Examples for yashmak

She wore no yashmak, for Selim, though professing the Moslem faith, was somewhat lax in carrying out its articles.

I would make a sensation in Bosna-Seraj, I can tell you, attired only in this and a yashmak.

He kissed his mother and then caressed the hair under the cap of the yashmak.

Its adoption is most probably connected with the Oriental veil or yashmak of the Eastern women.

She lowered her yashmak and looked at him with burning eyes.

Beside her a tall slender figure, in black tcharchaf and yashmak, made its appearance.

Their faces are veiled with something like the yashmak of Egypt, but it is of plain blue calico, a little embroidered.

"You forget that I do not know the name of the lady in the yashmak," objected Alexander.

Here you, my dear, Emruld, put your yashmak up a bit higher.

Which scarce her yashmak serves to hide, see Turkey gliding past.

Word Value for yashmak
Scrable

19

Words with friends

18

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