پردہ

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See also: پرده and برده

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian پرده (parda).

Noun

پردہ (pardam (Gurmukhi spelling ਪਰਦਾ)

  1. curtain
  2. screen
  3. veil

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian پرده (parda), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (flat).

Pronunciation

Noun

پَرْدَہ (pardam (Hindi spelling परदा)

  1. veil, cover (purdah)
    • 1978, عبد المصطفیٰ اعظمى [ʻabdul muṣt̤afá aʻẓmī], جنتی زیور [jannatī zevar, Heavenly Jewellery], Jhelum, →OCLC, page 55:
      چناچہ قرآن مجید میں اللہ تعالیٰ نے عورتوں پر پردہ فرض فرماتے ہوئے ارشاد فرمایا کہ
      Therefore, in the Holy Qur'an God Almighty makes the veil obligatory upon women stating that
  2. (by extension, usually in the plural) excuse, cover; trick
    • 1915, امیر مینائی [Amir Meenai], جان سخن [Jaan-e-Sukhan]‎, page 63:
      ذبح کرنے میں کمی او ستم ایجاد نہ کر
      رحم کر رحم کے پردے میں یہ بیداد نہ کر
      ẕibaḥ karne meṉ kamī o sitam īyjād nah kar
      raḥm kar raḥm ke parde meṉ yih bedād nah kar
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  3. (household) curtain
  4. (theater) curtain, screen
  5. (drama) a scene
  6. sail, sailcloth
  7. modesty
  8. (figuratively) honour
  9. concealment, secrecy
  10. hiding
  11. (music) the string of a sitar
  12. the skin of an almond (rare)
  13. (anatomy) membrane
  14. class, level

Declension

Declension of پردہ
singular plural
direct پردَہ (pardah) پردے (parde)
oblique پردے (parde) پردوں (pardõ)
vocative پردے (parde) پردو (pardo)

Descendants

  • English: purdah

Further reading

  • پردہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • پردہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “پرده”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.