Iron Curtain

Etymology


A specialized use of, probably partly a which was used in speeches in the 1940s that were translated into English. The English term appeared in telegrams from the British Prime Minister (1874–1965) to the President of the United States  (1884–1972) in 1945, before being popularized in a speech given by Churchill at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, on 5 March 1946: see the quotations.

Proper noun

 * 1)  Chiefly preceded by the: the dividing line between Western Europe and the Soviet controlled regions, especially during the Cold War (1947–1991).

Translations

 * Afrikaans: Ystergordyn
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: سِتَار حَدِيدِيّ, السِتَار الحَدِيدِي
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: cortina de fierro
 * Azerbaijani: dəmir pərdə
 * Basque: Altzairuzko oihala
 * Bavarian: Eiserner Vorhang
 * Belarusian: жале́зная засло́на
 * Breton: rideoz houarn
 * Bulgarian: желя́зна заве́са
 * Catalan: Teló d'Acer
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: jerntæppe
 * Dutch: ijzeren gordijn
 * Esperanto: fera kurteno
 * Estonian: raudne eesriie
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: pano de aceiro
 * Georgian: რკინის ფარდა
 * German:, eiserner Vorhang
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole: rido fè
 * Hebrew: מָסַךְ הַבַּרְזֶל
 * Hindi: लौह पर्दा
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: járntjald
 * Ido: fera kurteno
 * Indonesian: Tirai Besi
 * Interlingua: cortina de ferro
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 鉄のカーテン
 * Kazakh: темір перде
 * Khmer: វាំងននដែក
 * Korean: 철-의 장막
 * Kyrgyz: темир көшөгө
 * Latvian: dzelzs priekškars
 * Lithuanian: geležinė uždanga
 * Luxembourgish: Eisene Rideau
 * Macedonian: железна завеса
 * Malay: Tirai Besi
 * Malayalam: അയൺ കർട്ടൻ
 * Maltese: Purtiera tal-Ħadid
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: төмөр хөшиг
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: jernteppe, jernteppet
 * Nynorsk: jarnteppet, jernteppet
 * Occitan: ridèl de fèrre
 * Persian: پرده آهنین
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: cortina de ferro
 * Romanian: cortină de fier
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: Cùirtear Iarainn
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: гвоздена завеса, железна завеса, жељезна завјеса
 * Roman: gvozdena zavesa, železna zavesa, željezna zavjesa
 * Slovak: železná opona
 * Slovene: železna zavesa
 * Spanish: cortina de hierro, telón de acero
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: Kortinang Bakal, Kurtinang Bakal
 * Tajik: пардаи оҳанин
 * Tamil: இரும்புத் திரை
 * Thai: ม่านเหล็ก
 * Turkish: demir perde
 * Turkmen: demir perde
 * Ukrainian: залі́зна заві́са
 * Urdu: آہنی پردہ
 * Uyghur: تۆمۈر پەردە
 * Uzbek: temir parda
 * Vietnamese: bức màn sắt
 * Waray-Waray: Puthaw nga Kurtina
 * Welsh: Llen Haearn
 * West Frisian: Izeren Gerdyn
 * Western Panjabi: آہنی پردہ
 * Yiddish: אײַזערנער פֿירהאַנג