The abaya (colloquially plus more generally, Arabic: عباية ʿabāyah, especially in Literary Arabic: عباءة ʿabā'ah; plural عبايات ʿabāyāt, عباءات ʿabā'āt), at times also referred to as an aba, is a straightforward, loose about-garment, fundamentally a robe-like costume, worn by some women in the Muslim environment toge