پردہ

parda, s.m. A curtain, screen, cover, veil, anything which acts as a screen, a wall, hangings, tapestry; film, fine web, pellicle, lid (of the eye); drum (of the ear); sail (of a ship); the piece which covers the chest in an angarkhāor coat; the surface of the earth; secrecy, privacy, modesty; seclusion, concealment; secret, mystery, reticence, reserve; screen, shelter, pretext, pretence; a musical tone or mode; a note of the gamut; the frets of a guitar, etc.:—parda uṭhānā(-kā), To lift or raise the curtain, etc.; to unveil, expose, lay open, reveal: parda uṭhnāor uṭh-jānā, v.n. To be unveiled, etc.; to be revealed, be laid open, be exposed:—parda parda, adv. Secretly, privately (=dar parda):—parda paṛnā, v.n. 'Curtain to be let fall,' to be concealed; to be veiled or covered (by, -par):—parda-posh, adj. Keeping a secret; keeping secret or hiding (one's) misdeeds:—parda-poshī, s.f. Concealing (a blemish), conniving at (a fault or offence); keeping one's secret; preserving confidence:—parda-poshīkarnā(-kī), To connive (at), to hide or cover the misdeeds (of):—parda phāṛnā(-kā), To rend the veil (from), to reveal the faults (of), to expose (=parda fāsh karnā):—parda ćhoṛnā, v.n. To drop the curtain or veil;—to lay aside concealment; to come into public:—parda-dār, adj. Confidential, secret; also=parda-nishīn, q.v.:—parda-dārī, s.f.=parda-poshī. q.v.:—parda-dar, adj. & s.m. Tearing or rending the veil; laying bare, exposing, divulging, betraying; a betrayer of secrets:—parda-darī, s.f. The betraying of secrets, exposure;—pardadarīkarnā(-kī), To betray the secrets (of), to expose:—parda ḍālnā, v.n. To drop the curtain, draw the veil:—parda ḍhāṅknā= parda-poshīkarnā, q.v.:—parda ḍhakna or ḍhak-jānā(-kā), One's misdeeds to be covered, to be connived (at):—parda rakhnā(-se), v.n. To conceal (a thing from), to keep one's secret; to relate a matter in such terms as to be understood by part only of the hearers, to give obscure hints:—parda-sarā, s.m. A pavilion (=sarā-parda):—parda-fāsh, adj. & s.m.=parda-dar, q.v.;—parda fāsh karnā(-kā), To divulge or betray the secrets (of), to expose the misdeeds (of); to lose one's credit, become bankrupt:—parda karnā, v.n. To conceal, hide, draw the curtain or screen:—parda kholnā(-kā) = parda fāsh karnā:—parda lagnā, v.n. To sit behind the curtain, not to appear before strange men:—parda-nishīn, adj. & s.f. Kept, or remaining, behind a curtain; modest;—a woman who is kept concealed behinda curtain:—parda-wār = parda-nishīn, q.v.:—parda honāor ho-jānā, v.n. To be veiled or concealed, to be made private, to be private (e.g. yahāṅparda hai, 'this is private,' used when it is desired to keep men from entering, or passingthrough or by, a place where women are):—parde-meṅzarda lagānā= parde-meṅsurāḵẖkarnā, To indulge secretly in licentious intercourse with strange men (said of a parda-nishīn).