paravent

From French paravent.

paravent (plural paravents)

1. A windscreen.

Verb-object compound, composed of para (“to stop”) +‎ vent (“wind”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˌpa.ɾəˈβen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˌpa.ɾəˈvent]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˌpa.ɾaˈvent]

paravent m (plural paravents)

1. shutter

   Synonym: finestró

2. folding screen

   Synonym: mampara

3. (agriculture) windbreak

   Synonyms: tallavent, trencavent

• “paravent”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Borrowed from Italian paravento.

• IPA^(key): /pa.ʁa.vɑ̃/

paravent m (plural paravents)

1. folding screen
   • 1943, Antoine Saint-Exupéry, chapter VIII, in Le petit prince [The Little Prince], New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 34:

     — Je ne crains rien des tigres, mais j'ai horreur des courants d'air. Vous n'auriez pas un paravent ?

     “I am not at all afraid of tigers,” she went on, “but I have a horror of drafts. I suppose you wouldn't have a screen for me?”

• → Czech: paraván
• → English: paravent
• → German: Paravent
• → Ottoman Turkish: پاراوان (paravan), پاراوانه (paravana)
  • Turkish: paravan
• → Romanian: paravan

• “paravent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.