پرده

From Middle Persian *pardag. Compare Old Armenian պարտակ (partak), Classical Syriac ܦܪܕܩܐ‎ (pardəqā), Iranian borrowings.

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 usage example)

6. (music) maqam

• fret

• (fret): دستان‎ (dastân)

• پشت پرده‎ (pošt-e-parde)
• پرده بکارت‎ (parde-ye bekârat)
• پرده گوش‎ (parde-ye guš)

• Azerbaijani: pərdə
• Bashkir: пәрҙә (pärðä)
• English: purdah
• Georgian: ფარდა (parda)
• Hindi: पर्दा (pardā)
• Middle Armenian: փարդայ (pʿarday), փարտայ (pʿartay), փարդէ (pʿardē), փարտէ (pʿartē), փէրտա (pʿērta), փէրտէ (pʿērtē)
  • Armenian: փարդա (pʿarda), ֆարդա (farda)
• Ottoman Turkish
  • Albanian: perde
  • Bulgarian: перде (perde)
  • Greek: μπερντές (berntés)
  • Romanian: perdea
  • Serbo-Croatian: перда / perda
  • Turkish: perde
• Punjabi: ਪਰਦਾ (pardā) / پردہ‎ (parda)
• Urdu: پردہ‎ (parda)
• Uyghur: پەردە‎ (perde)
• Uzbek: parda

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “պարտակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 69a
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 229