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purdah::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | sex segregation |
| Type of | segregation, separatism |
purdah::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | screen |
Examples of purdah
purdah
Here the term purdah has long been used to describe the weeks before an election.
From the guardian.co.uk
Because the area practices purdah, the women are not comfortable joining, they said.
From the india.blogs.nytimes.com
The French have moved one step closer to banning purdah and other veil-wearing in public.
From the scienceblogs.com
What's more, for months they put themselves into self-imposed purdah.
From the guardian.co.uk
He banned women from participating and from being spectators of sports and promoted purdah.
From the en.wikipedia.org
He spent several months in purdah, putting together a cabinet.
From the economist.com
The Muslim conquest in the Indian subcontinent brought the purdah practice in the Indian society.
From the en.wikipedia.org
An engineer by training, Hekmatyar is a religious extremist who would keep Afghan women in purdah.
From the time.com
Purdah rules prohibited women from saying their husband's name or having their photograph taken.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Solitude: a state of social isolation
- The traditional Hindu or Muslim system of keeping women secluded
- A screen used in India to separate women from men or strangers
- Purdah or pardah (from Persian: u067Eu0631u062Fu0647, meaning "curtain") is a religious and social practice of female seclusion prevalent among some Muslim communities in South Asia. The variation of purdah worn by Hindu women is known as Ghoonghat. It takes two forms: physical segregation of the sexes and the requirement that women cover their bodies so as to cover their skin and conceal their form...
- Purdah is a now less-common term to describe the pre-election period, used in United Kingdom politics to describe the time between an announced election and the final election result. ...
- A curtain, especially as used to conceal and divide women from men and strangers in some Hindu or Muslim traditions; A striped cotton cloth which is used to make curtains; A long veil, or other all-enveloping clothing, worn by women in some Muslim societies; The state or system of social gender ...
- A practice of confining women to their homes. This total seclusion of females can occur in some Muslim countries.
- The Taliban-required practice of secluding women and requiring them to wear the chadri when in public. Sometimes used to refer to the veil itself.
- The seclusion of women away from outside, public life, in fundamentalist Islam.
