yashmak vs veil

yashmak and veil both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
yashmak	Yes	No	No	No
veil	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, veil is a hypernym of yashmak; that is, veil is a word with a broader meaning than yashmak:

Other hypernyms of yashmak include head covering.

yashmak (noun)	veil (noun)
the face veil worn by Muslim women	a garment that covers the head and face
	a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl
	the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)
	a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms

yashmak (verb)	veil (verb)
	make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
	to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil