పరదా
See also: పిరుదు
Telugu
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi पर्दा (pardā), Urdu پردہ (parda), from Persian پرده (parde, “curtain”).
Noun
పరదా • (paradā) ? (plural పరదాలు)
- a curtain to screen women in a harem
- (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