پرس

See also: ترش, ترس, پرش, برش, and برس

Persian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English press.

Pronunciation

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰe.ɹés]

Readings
Iranian reading?	peres

Noun

پرس • (peres) (plural پرس‌ها (peres-hâ))

1. mechanical press (machine)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from an Aramaic vocalization variant *pursā otherwise found as Classical Syriac ܦܪܣܐ (pərāsā, pārsā), later reinforced by French portion or Russian по́рция (pórcija).

Pronunciation

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰoɹs]

Readings
Iranian reading?	pors

Noun

پرس • (pors)

1. portion of food (for one person, e.g. when ordering at a restaurant)

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

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

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰʊɹs]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰʊɹs]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰʊɹs]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰuɹs]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰoɹs]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰuɹs]

• Rhymes: -urs

Readings
Classical reading?	purs
Dari reading?	purs
Iranian reading?	pors
Tajik reading?	purs

Verb

پرس • (pors)

1. present stem form of پرسیدن (porsidan, “to ask”)

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Classical Syriac ܦܪܣܐ (persā).

Pronunciation

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

• Rhymes: -ars

Readings
Classical reading?	pars

Noun

پرس • (pars) (Tajik spelling парс)

1. curtain, drapes

Further reading

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “پرس”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press.
• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “پرس”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Nöldeke, Theodor (1892), Persische Studien (Sitzungsberichte der Kais. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse; 126)‎^[1] (in German), volume II, Vienna, →DOI, page 39
• Vullers, Johann August (1855), “پرس”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 342b