پری
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))
- (Iranian mythology) sprite or supernatural being in Iranian/Persian mythology opposed to دیوسان (daemon) and دیو (daeva); peri.
- (Roman mythology) fury
- (mythology) fairy
- (mythology) witch (parika in Avestan mythology)
- (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)
- Pashto: پريِ (parī)
- Tatar: пәри (päri)
- Tajik: парӣ (pari)
- Urdu: پری (parī)
- Uzbek: pari
Proper noun
پری • (pari)
- Diminutive form of several female Persian given names starting with this word.
- 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)
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), Kurdish, Central Kurdish پھرێ (pare). Also compare Shirazi [Term?] (parigru(z)), Southern Luri [script needed] (parig).
Adverb
- (archaic) the day before yesterday
Noun
پری • (pari, parē)
- (archaic) the day before yesterday
Derived terms
References
- ^ Nyberg H. S. (posthumous), Utas, Bo, editors (1988), Frahang-i pahlavīk, Toll, Christopher, collaborator, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 106
- ^ Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 69
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