shiraa

== Swahili == === Etymology === Borrowed from Arabic شِرَاع (širāʕ, “tent”). === Noun === shiraa class IX (plural shiraa class X) tent-like veil === References === Hecht, E. D. (1987), “Harar And Lamu — A Comparison Of Two East African Muslim Societies”, in Transafrican Journal of History‎[1], volume 16, page 3 of 1-23: Hillewaert, Sarah (2019), Morality at the Margins: Youth, Language, and Islam in Coastal Kenya, New York: Fordham University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 136: “a tent-like construction covering the entire body, held up by two sticks, previously used by upper-class women to leave the house”