پردہ
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Punjabi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Persian پرده (parda).
Noun
[edit]پردہ • (parda) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਪਰਦਾ)
Urdu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Persian پرده (parda), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /pəɾ.d̪ɑ(ː)/
- Hyphenation: پَر‧دَہ
Noun
[edit]پَرْدَہ • (parda) m (Hindi spelling परदा)
- veil, cover (purdah)
- (by extension, usually in the plural) excuse, cover; trick
- 1915, امیر مینائی [Amir Meenai], جان سخن [Jaan-e-Sukhan][1], 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)
- ẕibaḥ karne meṉ kamī o sitam īyjād nah kar
- (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
[edit]Declension of پردہ | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
direct | پردَہ (pardah) | پردے (parde) | ||||||
oblique | پردے (parde) | پردوں (pardõ) | ||||||
vocative | پردے (parde) | پردو (pardo) |
Descendants
[edit]- → English: purdah
Further reading
[edit]- “پردہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “پردہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “پرده”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
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