پردہ

Borrowed from Classical Persian پرده (parda).

پردہ • (parda) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਪਰਦਾ)

1. curtain
2. screen
3. veil

Borrowed from Classical Persian پرده (parda), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /pəɾ.d̪ɑ(ː)/
• Hyphenation: پَر‧دَہ

پَرْدَہ • (parda) m (Hindi spelling परदा)

1. 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

     Therefore, in the Holy Qur'an God Almighty makes the veil obligatory upon women stating that

2. (by extension, usually in the plural) excuse, cover; trick
   • 1915, امیر مینائی [Amir Meenai], جان سخن [Jaan-e-Sukhan]‎^[1], 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)

3. (household) curtain
4. (theater) curtain, screen
5. (drama) a scene
6. sail, sailcloth
7. modesty
8. (figuratively) honour
9. concealment, secrecy
10. hiding
11. (music) the string of a sitar
12. the skin of an almond (rare)
13. (anatomy) membrane
14. class, level

• → English: purdah

• “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, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “پرده”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.