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.

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
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 (pʿeri)
  • Azerbaijani: pəri
  • 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)
  • 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.

References

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), Kurdish [script needed] (piērīē), Central Kurdish پهرێ (pare). Also compare Shirazi [script needed] (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

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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