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Punjabi
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian پرده (parda).
Noun
پردہ • (parda) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਪਰਦਾ)
- curtain
- screen
- veil
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian پرده (parda), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”).
Pronunciation
Noun
پَرْدَہ • (parda) m (Hindi spelling परदा)
- 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
- (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)
- (household) curtain
- (theater) curtain, screen
- (drama) a scene
- sail, sailcloth
- modesty
- (figuratively) honour
- concealment, secrecy
- hiding
- (music) the string of a sitar
- the skin of an almond (rare)
- (anatomy) membrane
- class, level
Declension
Declension of پردہ
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singular
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plural
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direct
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پردَہ (pardah)
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پردے (parde)
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oblique
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پردے (parde)
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پردوں (pardõ)
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vocative
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پردے (parde)
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پردو (pardo)
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Descendants
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, 2025.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “پرده”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.