persiana
Catalan
Related terms
Further reading
- “persiana” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /perˈsja.na/
- Rhymes: -ana
- Hyphenation: per‧sià‧na
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /peʁ.siˈɐ̃.nɐ/ [peh.sɪˈɐ̃.nɐ], (faster pronunciation) /peʁˈsjɐ̃.nɐ/ [pehˈsjɐ̃.nɐ]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /peɾ.siˈɐ̃.nɐ/ [peɾ.sɪˈɐ̃.nɐ], (faster pronunciation) /peɾˈsjɐ̃.nɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /peʁ.siˈɐ̃.nɐ/ [peχ.sɪˈɐ̃.nɐ], (faster pronunciation) /peʁˈsjɐ̃.nɐ/ [peχˈsjɐ̃.nɐ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /peɻ.siˈɐ.na/ [peɻ.sɪˈɐ.na], (faster pronunciation) /peɻˈsjɐ.na/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɨɾˈsjɐ.nɐ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /pɨɾˈsja.nɐ/
- Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐnɐ, (Brazil) -ɐ̃nɐ
- Hyphenation: per‧si‧a‧na
Noun
persiana f (plural persianas)
- Venetian blind (blind consisting of overlapping horizontal slats)
- Synonym: veneziana
Related terms
Spanish

A windows blinds

A shutter

A roller shutter
Etymology
Borrowed from French persienne, because of its origin. The feminine gender perhaps comes from the gender of French fenêtre f and/or Spanish ventana f, both meaning “window”.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peɾˈsjana/ [peɾˈsja.na]
- Rhymes: -ana
- Syllabification: per‧sia‧na
See also
- enrollarse como las persianas
Further reading
- “persiana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
persiana on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
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