پری

پری

See also: پري‎, تري‎, ترى‎, بری‎, and تري-‎

Azerbaijani

Noun

پری

1. Arabic spelling of pəri

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian پری‎ (pari).

Noun

پری • (peri)

1. fairy
2. (figurative) beautiful person

Descendants

• Turkish: peri
• → Albanian: perri
• → Armenian: փերի (pʿeri)
• → Crimean Tatar: peri
• → English: peri
• → French: péri
• → Russian: пе́ри (péri)

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “دزد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 321

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Persian

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian [script needed] (plyk' /parīg/, “witch”), ultimately from Old Persian *parikā. Compare Manichaean Middle Persian pryg‎ (pryg), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬐𐬁‎ (paⁱrikā, “sorceress, witch”), Sogdian [script needed] (pṛʿyk-, “female demoness”) and Old Armenian պարիկ (parik), an Iranian borrowing. Connections that have been proposed include Middle Irish airech (“concubine”), , Middle Persian parīg, Khotanese 𑀧𑀮𑀻𑀓𑀸 (palīkā), Sanskrit पारक्य (pārakya, “strange,alien”). Pokorny derives this from Proto-Indo-European *parīkā (“concubine”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /paɾiː/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /paɾiː/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /pæɾiː/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /paɾiː/

Noun

پری • (pari) (plural پریان‎ (pariyân) or پری‌ها‎ (pari-hâ))

Dari	پری
Iranian Persian
Tajik	парӣ (parī)

1. (Iranian mythology) sprite or supernatural being in Iranian/Persian mythology opposed to دیوسان‎ (daemon) and دیو‎ (daeva); peri.
2. (Roman mythology) fury
3. (mythology) fairy
4. (mythology) witch (parika in Avestan mythology)
5. (figuratively) a beautiful woman

   Synonym: هولو‎ (hulu)

Derived terms

• پریسا‎ (parisâ)
• پریا‎ (pariyâ)
• پریوش‎ (parivaš)
• پریچهر‎ (paričehr)
• پریزاد‎ (parizâd)
• پریناز‎ (parinâz)
• نازپری‎ (nâzpari)
• پریچه‎ (pariče)
• پریخوان‎ (parixân)
• پریستان‎ (pariyestân, “a fairyland”)

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: pəri
• Bengali: পরী (pôrī)
• Chagatai: پری‎
  • Uyghur: پەرى‎ (peri)
  • Uzbek: pari
• Hindustani:
  • Hindi: परी (parī)
  • Urdu: پری‎ (parī)
• Kazakh: пері (perı)
• Northern Kurdish: perî
• Southern Kurdish: پەری‎ (perî)
• Kyrgyz: пери (peri)
• Malay: peri
  • Indonesian: peri (“fairy”)
• Ottoman Turkish: پری‎ (peri)
  • Turkish: peri
  • → Albanian: perri
  • → Armenian: փերի (pʿeri)
  • → Crimean Tatar: peri
  • → English: peri
  • → French: péri
  • → Russian: пе́ри (péri)
• Punjabi: پری‎ (parī)
• Pashto: پري‎ (parī)
• Sindhi: پري‎ (parī)
• Tajik: парӣ (parī)
• Tatar: пәри (päri)
• Turkmen: peri

Proper noun

پری • (pari)

1. Diminutive form of several female Persian given names starting with this word.
2. a female given name, Pari or Paree, from Middle Persian

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “parīg”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 65
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1979), “պարիկ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume IV, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 61b
• Bartholomae, Christian (1904) Altiranisches Wörterbuch [Old Iranian Dictionary]‎ (in German), Strassburg: K. J. Trübner, columns 863–864
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “پری”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press

Etymology 2

پر‎ (por, “full”) +‎ ی‎ (-i, “-ness”)

Noun

پری • (pori)

1. fullness

Synonyms

• پر بودن‎ (por budan)

Etymology 3

From پریر‎ (parir, parēr, “day before yesterday”), from Middle Persian 𐬞𐬭𐬌𐬭‎ (prir /parīr/), [Book Pahlavi needed] (plʾyyl), [Book Pahlavi needed] (plʾyyʾl /parīr, parēr/, “the day before yesterday”), from Proto-Iranian *parāyarah[1][2], from *para- +‎ *ayarah (“day”) (compare Avestan 𐬀𐬫𐬀𐬭𐬇‎ (ayarə̄, “day”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyer- (“day, morning”). Cognate with Bakhtiari [script needed] (parey), Bashkardi پریر‎ (parir), Kermanic [script needed] (pare), Baluchi [script needed] (parērī), [script needed] (pairērī), Northern Kurdish pêr, Central Kurdish پەرێ‎ (perê). Also compare Shirazi [Term?] (parigru(z)), Southern Luri [script needed] (parig).

Adverb

پری • (pari, parē)

1. (archaic) the day before yesterday

Noun

پری • (pari, parē)

1. (archaic) the day before yesterday

Derived terms

• پریروز‎ (pariruz)
• پریشب‎ (parišab)
• پریدوش‎ (pariduš) (archaic)

References

1. Nyberg H. S. (posthumous); Utas, Bo, editor (1988) Frahang-i pahlavīk, Toll, Christopher, collaborator, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 106
2. Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 69

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Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian پری‎ (pari), from Middle Persian plyk' (parīg).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /pə.ɾiː/

Noun

پری • (parī) f (Hindi spelling परी)

1. fairy
2. peri
3. (figuratively) a beautiful woman

Declension

Declension of پری
	singular	plural
direct	پری‎ (parī)	پریاں‎ (pariyā̃)
oblique	پری‎ (parī)	پریوں‎ (pariyō̃)
vocative	پری‎ (parī)	پریو‎ (pariyō)

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “پری”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press