Meanings
plural chadors · alternative chadar · alternative chaddar · alternative chuddar · alternative chadah · alternative chader · alternative chadur · alternative chuddah · alternative chudder · alternative chuddur · alternative chudah
- A loose robe made from a single cloth, worn as a combination head covering, veil and shawl by chiefly Muslim women (and occasionally by those of other faiths) in Iran and South Asia.
Holonym: hijab
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The Commodities are infinite: […] Pintados, Chints and Chadors, Shashes and Girdles, Cannakens[…]
1625, [Samuel] Purchas, “The English Ambassadors arrivall at Surat”, in Purchas His Pilgrimes. […], 1st part, London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 530, line 42If those tablets were in Arabia, I'd put on a chador and burn my driver's licence and go there.
1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 402The first few times Dolly stepped out into the city, cloaked by a chaddar that impaired her vision, she intuitively grabbed Sekond Lal's hand.
2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 262Synonyms: buibui
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA loose robe made from a single cloth, worn as a combination head covering, veil and shawl by chiefly Muslim women (and occasionally by those of other faiths) in Iran and South Asia.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Sanskritछत्त्र
- Classical Persianچَادُر
- Urduچادَر
- Hindiचादर
- Englishchador
Borrowed from Hindi चादर (cādar) / Urdu چادَر (cādar), from Classical Persian چَادُر (čādur) or چَادَر (čādar), from Sanskrit छत्त्र (chattra). Doublet of chatra and chatta. Spelling possibly influenced by modern Iranian Persian چادُر (čâdor) or another language.
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Arabic شَادُور
- شَادُور (šādur)a loose robe worn by women
Bengali চাদর
- চাদর (cador)a loose robe worn by women
Bulgarian чадра́
- чадра́ (čadrá)a loose robe worn by women
Catalan xador
- xadora loose robe worn by women
Chinese Mandarin 查多
- 查多 (cháduō)a loose robe worn by women
Czech čádor
- čádora loose robe worn by women
Danish chador
- chadora loose robe worn by women
Dutch chador
- chadora loose robe worn by women
Esperanto ĉadoro
- ĉadoroa loose robe worn by women
Finnish tšador
- tšadora loose robe worn by women
French tchador, chador
- tchadora loose robe worn by women
- chadora loose robe worn by women
German Tschador
- Tschadora loose robe worn by women
Greek τσαντόρ
- τσαντόρ (tsantór)a loose robe worn by women
Hindi चादर
- चादर (cādar)a loose robe worn by women
Hungarian csador
- csadora loose robe worn by women
Japanese チャドル, チャードル
- チャドル (chadoru)a loose robe worn by women
- チャードル (chādoru)a loose robe worn by women
Korean 차도르
- 차도르 (chadoreu)a loose robe worn by women
Norwegian Bokmål chador
- chadora loose robe worn by women
Polish czador, czadra
- czadora loose robe worn by women
- czadraa loose robe worn by women
Portuguese xador
- xadora loose robe worn by women
Punjabi ਚਾਦਰ, چادَر
- ਚਾਦਰ (cādar)a loose robe worn by women
- چادَر (cādar)a loose robe worn by women
Russian чадра́
- чадра́ (čadrá)a loose robe worn by women
Spanish chador
- chadora loose robe worn by women
Thai ชอโดร์
- ชอโดร์a loose robe worn by women
Turkish çador
- çadora loose robe worn by women
Ukrainian чадра́
- чадра́ (čadrá)a loose robe worn by women
Urdu چادَر
- چادَر (cādar)a loose robe worn by women
Vietnamese chàng mạng
- chàng mạnga loose robe worn by women
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Cite this entry
chador. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chador
“chador.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chador. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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