پری

See also: تري, ترى, بری, and تري-

Persian

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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

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

• Armenian: փերի (pʻeri)
• Azerbaijani: pəri
• Bengali: পরী (porī)
• Kurdish: perî
• Kyrgyz: пери (peri)
• Ottoman Turkish: پری (peri)
  • Albanian: perri
  • Crimean Tatar: peri
  • Turkish: peri
• Pashto: پريِ (parī)
• Tatar: пәри (päri)
• Tajik: парӣ (parī)
• Urdu: پری (parī)
• Uzbek: pari

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, Hračʻeay (1979) “պարիկ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 61b
• Bartholomae, Christian (1904) Altiranisches Wörterbuch [Old Iranian Dictionary]‎^[1] (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, 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), Kurdish, Central Kurdish پھرێ (pare). Also compare Shirazi [Term?] (parigru(z)), Southern Luri [script needed] (parig).

Adverb

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)