پاراوان

Ottoman Turkish

پاراوان

Alternative forms

• پاراوانه (paravana)

Etymology

Borrowed from French paravent (“folding screen”), itself from Italian paravento, from parare (“to block”) + vento (“wind”).

Noun

پاراوان • (paravan)

1. folding screen, a piece of furniture consisting of two or more frames connected by hinges

Descendants

• Turkish: paravan

Further reading

• 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