پاراوان
Ottoman Turkish
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Alternative forms
[edit]- پاراوانه (paravana)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French paravent (“folding screen”), itself from Italian paravento, from parare (“to block”) + vento (“wind”).
Noun
[edit]پاراوان • (paravan)
- folding screen, a piece of furniture consisting of two or more frames connected by hinges
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: paravan
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “paravan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3776
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پاراوان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 311
- Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) “paravana”, in Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 344
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “paravan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük