peri

See also: Peri, perí, péri, pèri, perì, perî, peří, peri-, péri-, and pēri

English

WOTD – 12 November 2013, 12 November 2014

Alternative forms

pari (directly from Persian)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پری‎ (peri), from Persian ‎ (pari).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɪə.ɹi/
Audio (AU) (file)

Noun

peri (plural peris)

(Persian 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, 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

(sprite): fairy, pixie, sprite

Translations

sprite in Persian mythology

Armenian: փերի (hy) (pʿeri)
Azerbaijani: pəri
French: péri (fr)
German: Peri
Hindi: परी (hi) f (parī)
Kazakh: пері (perı)
Kumyk: пери (peri)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: perî (ku)
Kyrgyz: пери (ky) (peri)
Marathi: परी (mr) f (parī)
Nepali: परी (ne) (parī)
Persian: پری‎ (fa) (pari)
Russian: пери (ru) (peri)
Spanish: peri
Swedish: peri
Tajik: парӣ (tg) (parī)
Turkish: peri (tr)
Uzbek: pari (uz)

Anagrams

pier, prie, ripe

'Are'are

Verb

peri

to thieve

References

Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

Basque

Noun

peri

dative indefinite of pe

Finnish

Verb

peri

third-person singular past indicative of periä
present active indicative connegative of periä
second-person singular present imperative of periä
second-person singular present active imperative connegative of periä

Anagrams

repi, ripe

Indonesian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [pəˈri]
Hyphenation: pê‧ri

Etymology 1

From Sanskrit परि (pari, “about”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *pári, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pári, from Proto-Indo-European *péri. Doublet of peri-.

The word sense is related to Sanskrit परिभाषा (paribhāṣā, “definition”)

Noun

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.
Synonyms: hal, sifat, keadaan
conduct.
Synonym: laku
event.
Synonyms: kejadian, peristiwa

Derived terms

peri kehidupan
peri kemanusiaan
peri kesopanan

Related terms

peri-
perilaku

Noun

pêri (first-person possessive periku, second-person possessive perimu, third-person possessive perinya)

(archaic) word.
Synonym: kata

Derived terms

berperi
memerikan
pemerian
perian
terperikan

Related terms

peribahasa

Etymology 2

From Persian ‎ (pari, “fairy”), from Middle Persian plyk' (parīg, “witch”).

Noun

pêri (first-person possessive periku, second-person possessive perimu, third-person possessive perinya)

fairy.

Etymology 3

From Sanskrit परि (pari, “abundantly, fully”).

Noun

pêri (first-person possessive periku, second-person possessive perimu, third-person possessive perinya)

heavy rain.

Italian

Noun

peri

plural of pero

Anagrams

iper-, ripe

Latin

Verb

perī

second-person singular active imperative of pereō

Latvian

Peri

Etymology

Singular form pers, cognate with Lithuanian pẽras (“larva”), derived from perēt (“to nest, hatch”).[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [pæɾi]

Noun

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

There is a singular form pers, only sporadically attested.

Declension

Declension of peri (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	—	peri
accusative (akuzatīvs)	—	perus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	—	peru
dative (datīvs)	—	periem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	—	periem
locative (lokatīvs)	—	peros
vocative (vokatīvs)	—	peri

References

Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “peri”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

Portuguese

Noun

peri m (plural peris)

peri

Romanian

Noun

peri m pl

plural of păr

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

peri (Cyrillic spelling пери)

second-person singular imperative of prati

Sranan Tongo

Noun

peri

pearl

Tocharian B

Noun

peri m sg

debt

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish پری‎ (peri), from Persian ‎ (pari).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /peˈɾi/
Hyphenation: pe‧ri

Noun

peri (definite accusative periyi, plural periler)

fairy, pixie

Declension

Inflection

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

Possessive forms
Nominative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	perim	perilerim
2nd singular	perin	perilerin
3rd singular	perisi	perileri
1st plural	perimiz	perilerimiz
2nd plural	periniz	perileriniz
3rd plural	perileri	perileri
Definite accusative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	perimi	perilerimi
2nd singular	perini	perilerini
3rd singular	perisini	perilerini
1st plural	perimizi	perilerimizi
2nd plural	perinizi	perilerinizi
3rd plural	perilerini	perilerini
Dative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	perime	perilerime
2nd singular	perine	perilerine
3rd singular	perisine	perilerine
1st plural	perimize	perilerimize
2nd plural	perinize	perilerinize
3rd plural	perilerine	perilerine
Locative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	perimde	perilerimde
2nd singular	perinde	perilerinde
3rd singular	perisinde	perilerinde
1st plural	perimizde	perilerimizde
2nd plural	perinizde	perilerinizde
3rd plural	perilerinde	perilerinde
Ablative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	perimden	perilerimden
2nd singular	perinden	perilerinden
3rd singular	perisinden	perilerinden
1st plural	perimizden	perilerimizden
2nd plural	perinizden	perilerinizden
3rd plural	perilerinden	perilerinden
Genitive
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	perimin	perilerimin
2nd singular	perinin	perilerinin
3rd singular	perisinin	perilerinin
1st plural	perimizin	perilerimizin
2nd plural	perinizin	perilerinizin
3rd plural	perilerinin	perilerinin

Predicative forms
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	periyim	perilerim
2nd singular	perisin	perilersin
3rd singular	peri peridir	periler perilerdir
1st plural	periyiz	perileriz
2nd plural	perisiniz	perilersiniz
3rd plural	periler	perilerdir

Derived terms

ilham perisi
iyilik perisi
peribacası
pericik
peri gibi
peri hastalığı
perileri bağdaşmak
peri masalı
peri masası
peri oyunu
peri piramidi
perisi hoşlanmamak
superisi

Turkmen

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian ‎ (pari).

Noun

peri

fairy

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kʷert, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer-.

Verb

peri (first-person singular present paraf)

(transitive) to cause, to induce
Synonym: achosi

Conjugation

Conjugation (literary)

	singular			plural			impersonal
	first	second	third	first	second	third	impersonal
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

Conjugation (colloquial)

Inflected colloquial forms	singular			plural
Inflected colloquial forms	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

peiriant (“machine, engine”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
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.

[1] Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “peri”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

peri

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Synonyms

Translations

Anagrams

'Are'are

Verb

References

Basque

Noun

Finnish

Verb

Anagrams

Indonesian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Derived terms

Related terms

Noun

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

Noun

Etymology 3

Noun

Further reading

Italian

Noun

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

Latvian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Usage notes

Declension

References

Portuguese

Noun

Romanian

Noun

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

Sranan Tongo

Noun

Tocharian B

Noun

Turkish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

Turkmen

Etymology

Noun

Welsh

Etymology

Verb

Conjugation

Derived terms

Mutation