పరదా

See also: పిరుదు

Telugu

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi पर्दा (pardā), Urdu پردہ (pardā), from Classical Persian پرده (parda, “curtain”).

Noun

పరదా • (paradā) ? (plural పరదాలు)

1. a curtain to screen women in a harem
2. (by extension) the custom of keeping women behind a screen.

Synonyms

• తెర (tera)

References

• "పరదా" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 713