peri
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- pari (directly from Persian)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پری (peri), from Persian پری (pari).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]peri (plural peris)
- (Iranian mythology) A sprite or supernatural being.
- January-June 1829, “The Adventures of Hatim-Beni-Tye”, in The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies[1], volume 27, page 549:
- He sent a Peri to Chundum Dew with a message: "If you wish to live, release the mortal in your power: if not, every demon in your service will immediately be put to the sword."
- March 16 1916, Alfred Richard Orage, Arthur Moore, The New Age: A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature and Art, page 473:
- In an hour they hovered above Hampstead Heath, and the peri looked down for a lonely spot where she might alight in the sulphurous gloom of a dog-day sunset too blinding for anyone to look at […]
- 2008, A Fire in My Heart: Kurdish Tales, page 75:
- The Padishah's son was also there, and he realized that the peri looked very familiar.
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
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See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]'Are'are
[edit]Verb
[edit]peri
- to thieve
References
[edit]- Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)
Basque
[edit]Noun
[edit]peri
- dative indefinite of pe
Finnish
[edit]Verb
[edit]peri
- inflection of periä:
Anagrams
[edit]Indonesian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Sanskrit परि (pari, “about”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *pári, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pári, from Proto-Indo-European *péri. Doublet of peri-.
Noun
[edit]pêri (first-person possessive periku, second-person possessive perimu, third-person possessive perinya)
- about, concerning; with regard to; on account of; on the subject of; to affect.
- conduct.
- Synonym: laku
- event.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]pêri (first-person possessive periku, second-person possessive perimu, third-person possessive perinya)
Derived terms
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From Persian پری (pari, “fairy”), from Middle Persian plyk' (parīg, “witch”).
Noun
[edit]pêri (first-person possessive periku, second-person possessive perimu, third-person possessive perinya)
Etymology 3
[edit]From Sanskrit परि (pari, “abundantly, fully”).
Noun
[edit]pêri (first-person possessive periku, second-person possessive perimu, third-person possessive perinya)
Further reading
[edit]- “peri” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Italian
[edit]Noun
[edit]peri
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]perī
Latvian
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Etymology
[edit]Singular form pers, cognate with Lithuanian pẽras (“larva”), derived from perēt (“to nest, hatch”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]peri m (1st declension)
- (chiefly in the plural) bee larvae
- peru puve ― larvae rot (bee larvae disease)
- peru pieniņš ― larvae milk (a secretion of working bees used to feed the larvae)
Usage notes
[edit]There is a singular form pers, only sporadically attested.
Declension
[edit]singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
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nominative (nominatīvs) | — | peri |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | — | perus |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | — | peru |
dative (datīvs) | — | periem |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | — | periem |
locative (lokatīvs) | — | peros |
vocative (vokatīvs) | — | peri |
References
[edit]- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “peri”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
Portuguese
[edit]Noun
[edit]peri m (plural peris)
Romanian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]peri m pl
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Verb
[edit]peri (Cyrillic spelling пери)
Sranan Tongo
[edit]Noun
[edit]peri
Tocharian B
[edit]Noun
[edit]peri m sg
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish پری (peri), from Persian پری (pari).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]peri (definite accusative periyi, plural periler)
Declension
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Nominative | peri | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | periyi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Singular | Plural | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nominative | peri | periler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | periyi | perileri | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | periye | perilere | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | peride | perilerde | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | periden | perilerden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | perinin | perilerin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “peri”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “peri”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “peri”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
Turkmen
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Persian پری (pari).
Noun
[edit]peri
Welsh
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *kʷareti, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer-.
Verb
[edit]peri (first-person singular present paraf)
Conjugation
[edit]singular | plural | impersonal | ||||||
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first | second | third | first | second | third | |||
present indicative/future | paraf | peri | pair, pâr | parwn | perwch, parwch | parant | perir | |
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/ conditional |
parwn | parit | parai | parem | parech | parent | perid | |
preterite | perais | peraist | parodd | parasom | parasoch | parasant | parwyd | |
pluperfect | paraswn | parasit | parasai | parasem | parasech | parasent | parasid, paresid | |
present subjunctive | parwyf | perych | paro | parom | paroch | paront | parer | |
imperative | — | pâr | pared | parwn | perwch, parwch | parent | parer | |
verbal noun | peri | |||||||
verbal adjectives | paredig paradwy |
Inflected colloquial forms | singular | plural | ||||
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first | second | third | first | second | third | |
future | para i, paraf i | pari di | parith o/e/hi, pariff e/hi | parwn ni | parwch chi | paran nhw |
conditional | parwn i, parswn i | paret ti, parset ti | parai fo/fe/hi, parsai fo/fe/hi | paren ni, parsen ni | parech chi, parsech chi | paren nhw, parsen nhw |
preterite | parais i, pares i | paraist ti, parest ti | parodd o/e/hi | paron ni | paroch chi | paron nhw |
imperative | — | para | — | — | parwch | — |
Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh. |
Derived terms
[edit]- peiriant (“machine, engine”)
Mutation
[edit]Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
peri | beri | mheri | pheri |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “peri”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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