How to say "skirt" in Arabic

Not חצאית but תנור, 'oven', is the word to watch: lexicographers regularly derive tannūra from تنّور, the same ancient word for a clay oven that gives Hebrew תנור (both ultimately from Akkadian tinūru) — the flared, wide-mouthed shape of the garment said to echo the oven's own flare. It's a debated route — some trace the skirt-sense instead through a Persian or Aramaic 'tannūra' meaning a dervish's wrap — but either way the skirt and the oven share a name. Hebrew תנור never made that leap; it just stayed an oven. One vivid extra sense worth knowing: tannūra is also the specific word for the wide flared skirt worn by whirling (Sufi) dervishes, so the same word covers everything from a school uniform to a performance costume.