saafa

plural saafas

1. A headscarf or long cloth used to form a turban in parts of India.

   She tried to do things for him, get his slippers, fetch his saafa, button his kurta, dry his wet hair after a bath.

   1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 72

   2 more examples

   For years, she has been wrapping the traditional Rajasthani headgear, the saafa or pagdi, for the local deity Ghanghor.

   2007, India Today International, volume 6, page 6

   ‘Fashion is tangible; it can't be understood just by looking at it,' he would say admonishingly, pulling off a sari from here, a saafa from there and turning them around to show their undersides.

   2012, Shefalee Vasudev, Powder Room