پرده

See also: پردہ and برده

Gulf Arabic

Alternative forms

• پردة
• بردة

Etymology

From Persian پرده (parde).

Noun

پرده • (parda) f

1. curtain

Iraqi Arabic

Etymology

From Persian پرده.

Noun

پرده (parda) f

1. curtain

Ottoman Turkish

پرده

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian پرده (parda, “curtain, screen, veil”).

Noun

پرده • (perde)

1. curtain, a piece of cloth covering a window or bed
2. blind, a movable covering for a window to keep out light
3. screen, a physical divider intended to block an area from view
4. veil, a piece of cloth used to protect or hide the face

   Synonyms: حجاب (hicab), نقاب (nikab), یاشمق (yaşmak)

5. curtain, a piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater
6. (by extension) act, a division of a theatrical performance
7. oil painting, an artwork done with oil paints
8. (in general) fold, layer, coat, covering of material
9. (music) tone, a whole tone, the pitch of the voice
10. (music) fret on a guitar, key of a piano
11. (figuratively, of a woman) chastity, immaculateness, modesty
12. (anatomy) covering membrane, fold, layer, septum

Derived terms

• پرده بیرون (perde-birūn, “bold, impudent”)
• پرده‌باز (perdebaz, “musician”)
• پرده‌جی (perdeci, “maker or seller of curtains”)
• پرده‌دار (perdedar, “curtained, screened”)
• پرده‌سز (perdesiz, “without curtains”)
• پرده‌لتمك (perdeletmek, “to make or let be covered”)
• پرده‌لك (perdelik, “stuff fit for a curtain”)
• پرده‌لمك (perdelemek, “to cover with a curtain”)
• پرده‌لندرمك (perdelendirmek, “to make or let become a curtain”)
• پرده‌لنمك (perdelenmek, “to get a veil or a curtain”)
• پرده‌لو (perdeli, “furnished with curtains”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: perde
• → Albanian: perde
• → Armenian: փէրտէ (pʻērtē)
• → Bulgarian: перде́ (perdé)
• → Greek: μπερντές (berntés)
• → Laz: ფერდე (perde)
• → Macedonian: перде (perde)
• → Romanian: perdea
• → Serbo-Croatian: перда / perda

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “perde”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3823
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “پرده”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 113b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پرده”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 319
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Velum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1725
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پرده”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 765
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “perde”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پرده”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 441

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian pltk' (pardag), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to cover, wrap; hide, cloth”). Cognate with Sanskrit पट (paṭa, “piece of cloth”), Northern Kurdish perî (“curtain; bridal curtain”), Central Kurdish پەردوو (perdû, “roofing material, such as leaves, barks, etc.”).

Compare also Old Armenian պարտակ (partak), Classical Syriac ܦܪܕܩܐ (pardəqā), Iranian borrowings.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [paɾ.ˈda]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰäɾ.d̪ǽ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰäɾ.d̪ǽ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰäɾ.d̪ǽ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰäɾ.d̪ǽ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰæɹ.d̪é]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰäɾ.d̪ǽ]

Readings
Classical reading?	parda
Dari reading?	parda
Iranian reading?	parde
Tajik reading?	parda

Noun

Dari	پرده
Iranian Persian
Tajik	парда

پرده • (parde) (plural پرده‌ها (parde-hâ))

1. curtain
2. (archaic) veil
3. screen
4. membrane
5. (music) tone, a whole tone (musical interval equal (exactly or approximately) to two semitones)
   • Rumi, "Ney-nameh", Masnavi-e Ma'navi
     • ... پرده‌هایش پرده‌های ما درید

       ... pardehâyaš, pardehâ-ye mâ darid

       (please add an English translation of this quotation)

6. (music) maqam
7. (music) fret

   Synonym: دستان (dastân)

Derived terms

• پشت پرده (pošt-e parde)
• پرده بکارت (parde-ye bekârat)
• پرده گوش (parde-ye guš)
• نیم پرده (nim-parde)
• عروسک پشت پرده ('arusak-e pošt-e parde)

Descendants

• → Middle Armenian: փարդայ (pʻarday), փարտայ (pʻartay), փարդէ (pʻardē), փարտէ (pʻartē), փէրտա (pʻērta), փէրտէ (pʻērtē)
  • Armenian: փարդա (pʻarda), ֆարդա (farda)
• → Azerbaijani: pərdə
• → Bengali: পর্দা (porda)
• → Bashkir: пәрҙә (pərźə)
• → Georgian: ფარდა (parda)
  • → Bats: ფარდ (pard)
  • → Mingrelian: ფარო (paro)
  • → Svan: ფარდა (parda)
• → Gulf Arabic: پرده
• → Malayalam: പർദ്ദ (paṟdda)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: परदा (pardā)

  Urdu: پردہ (pardah)

  • → English: purdah

• → Iraqi Arabic: پرده
• → Kazakh: перде (perde)
• → Punjabi: ਪਰਦਾ (pardā) / پردہ (parda)
• → Ottoman Turkish: پرده (perde)
  • Turkish: perde
  • → Albanian: perde
  • → Armenian: փէրտէ (pʻērtē)
  • → Bulgarian: перде́ (perdé)
  • → Greek: μπερντές (berntés)
  • → Laz: ფერდე (perde)
  • → Macedonian: перде (perde)
  • → Romanian: perdea
  • → Serbo-Croatian: перда / perda
• → Uyghur: پەردە (perde)
• → Uzbek: parda

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “պարտակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 69a
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 229
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “pltk'”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 65
• Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 361