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In the Persian or Farsi, the head and body cover is a chador, not a hijab which covers only the hair. Perhaps you should follow your own advice, PP.

Not pp but, 
Farsi is a language 
Persian is a culture 
In Iran women can wear scarves to cover hair to meet government imposed requirements, no veil and, a "traditional" chador if they want to. [/quote]

Thanks PP for correcting the other PP. Hijab is used generically in Iran for modest dress, esp the expectation that women will cover their hair. Chador is the Persian equivalent of an abaya in Saudi Arabia. A manto is the cloak/coat/jacket that most younger/urban/upper middle class women wear instead of a chador; color, length, style varies widely. A rusari is a headscarf; a maghneh is the hooded scarf that you slip over your head. Both can be had in essentially any color. In Iran today, a really religious woman or someone in a high govt position will typically wear a manto and rusari or maghneh, with a chador on top!

I lived there, and wore every one of those at one point or another, not particularly well. But my Persian teachers would recoil at the notion that Farsi is the appropriate English word for the language. They insisted on calling it Persian - said calling it Farsi was like referring to the Spanish language as Espanol.[/quote]

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