# پرده
## Iraqi Arabic
### Etymology

From Persian پرده.

### Noun

پرده (parda) f
* curtain

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

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

### Noun

پرده • (perde)
* curtain, a piece of cloth covering a window or bed
* blind, a movable covering for a window to keep out light
* screen, a physical divider intended to block an area from view
* veil, a piece of cloth used to protect or hide the face
    Synonyms: حجاب (hicab), نقاب (nikab), یاشمق (yaşmak)
* curtain, a piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater
* (by extension) act, a division of a theatrical performance
* oil painting, an artwork done with oil paints
* (in general) fold, layer, coat, covering of material
* (music) tone, a whole tone, the pitch of the voice
* (music) fret on a guitar, key of a piano
* (figuratively, of a woman) chastity, immaculateness, modesty
* (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, Vienna: F. Beck, page 113b
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پرده”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, 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, 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, Vienna, column 765
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “perde”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پرده”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, 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: [paɾ.ˈda]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [pʰäɾ.d̪ǽ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [pʰäɾ.d̪ǽ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [pʰäɾ.d̪ǽ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [pʰäɾ.d̪ǽ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [pʰæɹ.d̪é]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [pʰäɾ.d̪ǽ]

### Noun

پرده • (parde) (plural پرده‌ها (parde-hâ))
* curtain
* (archaic) veil
* screen
* membrane
* (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)
* (music) maqam
* (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