iron curtain

See also: Iron Curtain

English

Etymology

PIE word *h₁ésh₂r̥

PIE word *ḱóm

From iron +‎ curtain.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌaɪən ˈkɜːtn̩/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌaɪ(ə)ɹn ˈkɜɹt(ə)n/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tən
• Hyphenation: iron cur‧tain

Noun

iron curtain (plural iron curtains)

1. (theater) A barrier made of iron in a theatre, lowered between the stage and the auditorium for safety or to prevent communication.
2. (figurative) Any impenetrable barrier.
   • 1982, Ervand Abrahamian, Iran Between Two Revolutions‎^[1], →ISBN, page 450:

     The coup d'etat also constituted an iron curtain for the social scientists.

Derived terms

• Iron Curtain

Translations

barrier made of iron in a theatre

• Hungarian: vasfüggöny (hu)
• Icelandic: járntjald n
• Polish: żelazna kurtyna (pl) f
• Portuguese: cortina de ferro f
• Scottish Gaelic: cùirtear iarainn m
• Tagalog: kurtinang pangyero

impenetrable barrier

• Arabic: السِتَار الحَدِيدِي m (as-sitār al-ḥadīdī) (definite), سِتَار حَدِيدِيّ m (sitār ḥadīdiyy) (indefinite)
• Armenian: երկաթե վարագույր (hy) (erkatʻe varaguyr)
• Azerbaijani: dəmir pərdə
• Belarusian: жале́зная засло́на f (žaljéznaja zaslóna)
• Bulgarian: желя́зна заве́са f (željázna zavésa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鐵幕／铁幕 (zh) (tiěmù)

• Czech: železná opona (cs) f
• Danish: jerntæppe n
• Dutch: ijzeren gordijn n
• Estonian: raudne eesriie
• Finnish: rautaesirippu (fi)
• French: rideau de fer (fr) m
• Georgian: რკინის ფარდა (rḳinis parda)
• German: eiserner Vorhang m
• Greek: σιδηρούν παραπέτασμα (el) n (sidiroún parapétasma)
• Hebrew: מָסַךְ הַבַּרְזֶל m
• Hindi: लौह पर्दा m (lauh pardā)
• Hungarian: vasfüggöny (hu)
• Icelandic: járntjald n
• Italian: cortina di ferro (it) f
• Japanese: 鉄のカーテン (てつのカーテン, tetsu no kāten)
• Kazakh: темір перде (temır perde)
• Khmer: វាំងននដែក (vĕəng nɔɔn daek)
• Korean: 철의 장막 (cheorui jangmak), 장벽(障壁) (ko) (jangbyeok)
• Kyrgyz: темир көшөгө (temir köşögö)
• Latvian: dzelzs priekškars m
• Lithuanian: geležinė uždanga f
• Macedonian: железна завеса f (železna zavesa)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: төмөр хөшиг (tömör xöšig)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jernteppe n

• Persian: پردهٔ آهنین (parde-ye âhanin)
• Polish: żelazna kurtyna (pl) f
• Portuguese: cortina de ferro f
• Romanian: cortină de fier f
• Russian: желе́зный за́навес (ru) m (želéznyj zánaves)
• Scottish Gaelic: cùirtear iarainn m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гвоздена завеса f, железна завеса f, жељезна завјеса f

  Roman: gvozdena zavesa f, železna zavesa f, željezna zavjesa f

• Slovak: železná opona f
• Slovene: železna zavesa f
• Swedish: järnridå (sv) c
• Tajik: пардаи оҳанин (pardayi ohanin)
• Thai: ม่านเหล็ก (mâan-lèk)
• Turkish: demir perde
• Turkmen: demir perde
• Ukrainian: залі́зна заві́са f (zalízna zavísa)
• Uyghur: تۆمۈر پەردە (tömür perde)
• Uzbek: temir parda
• Vietnamese: bức màn sắt

Further reading

• iron curtain on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Iron Curtain (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia