kaffiyeh

noun

an Arab headdress consisting of a square piece of cloth folded into a triangle and fastened over the crown by an agal

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The word kaffiyeh breaks down into one root of Arabic origin: the root kaffiyeh, from Arabic kufiyya (“headdress”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.