uncover, remove purdah

set up or erect a cover

fall at someone's feet, touch someone's feet reverentially, prostrate oneself before a man of high position or caste, beg with great earnestness and humility

seek cover

behind, under cover, in ambush, under the pretence of

adopt a male child, legally take (another's son) and bring it up as one's own

anything natural or man-made behind which one can hide, cover, covert, hide, screen, fence, wall

at the pretext of time

'abd

to kiss or to be kissed

to ask for a kiss, to solicit a kiss

do something stealthily

subtly abuse one's benefactor

a kind word costs nothing

to give one's child to another for adoption

ehsaan

there is nothing lost by civility,

observe purdah to hide oneself

look for a pretext