Talk:Zenana

Latticework window
I visited Leighton House recently, which contains an Oriental chamber full of Turkish tiles, and a beautifully carved wooden projecting latticework window brought by Lord Leighton from Damascus, which the interpretation states is called a "zenana" and from which women could look down over the street without being seen themselves. There may be other terms for such a window, but should this use not figure in this article? Diomedea Exulans (talk) 21:10, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Etymology?
Wonder if "zenana" meaning "(place of) women" comes from Old Persian or Hindi and -- since both are Indo-European languages -- how it is related to Slavonic "žena/жена" = "woman" (also Greek "gynê" and eventually also Scandinavian "kvina", all meaning the same)? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.245.124.136 (talk) 08:49, 4 October 2017 (UTC)