پردہ
Punjabi
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian پرده (parda).
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian پرده (parda), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /pəɾ.d̪ɑ(ː)/
- Hyphenation: پَر‧دَہ
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
- cunācih qurān majīd meṉ allٰh taʻālá ne ʻaurtoṉ par pardah farẓ farmāte hū'e īrśād farmāyا kih
- 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)
- 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
Declension of پردہ | ||
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singular | plural | |
direct | پردہ (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 [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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