پاراوان
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Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- پاراوانه (paravana)
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French paravent (“folding screen”), itself from Italian paravento, from parare (“to block”) + vento (“wind”).
Noun[edit]
پاراوان • (paravan)
- folding screen, a piece of furniture consisting of two or more frames connected by hinges
Descendants[edit]
- Turkish: paravan
Further reading[edit]
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “paravan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3776
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پاراوان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 311
- Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) “paravana”, in Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 344
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “paravan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük