peri

From Persian پری‎ (pari).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɪə.ɹi/

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peri (plural peris)

1. (Persian mythology) A sprite or supernatural being.
   • 1829, The Adventures of Hatim-Beni-Tye, The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies, Volume 27: January—June 1829, page 549,

     He sent a Peri to Chundum Dew with a message: "If you wish to live, release the mortal in your power: if not, every demon in your service will immediately be put to the sword."

   • 1916 (Mar 16), Alfred Richard Orage, ‎Arthur Moore, The New Age: A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature and Art, page 473

     In an hour they hovered above Hampstead Heath, and the peri looked down for a lonely spot where she might alight in the sulphurous gloom of a dog-day sunset too blinding for anyone to look at […]

   • 2008, A Fire in My Heart: Kurdish Tales, page 75

     The Padishah's son was also there, and he realized that the peri looked very familiar.

• (sprite): fairy, pixie, sprite

• pier, prie, ripe

peri

1. to thieve

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

peri

1. Third-person singular indicative past form of periä.
2. Indicative present connegative form of periä.
3. Second-person singular imperative present form of periä.
4. Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of periä.

• repi, ripe

peri (f plural)

1. plural of pero

• ripe

perī

1. second-person singular active imperative of pereō

Singular form pers, cognate with Lithuanian pẽras (“larva”), derived from perēt (“to nest, hatch”).[1]

• IPA^(key): [pæɾi]

peri m (1st declension)

1. (chiefly in the plural) bee larvae

   peru puve ― larvae rot (bee larvae disease)

   peru pieniņš ― larvae milk (a secretion of working bees used to feed the larvae)

There is a singular form pers, only sporadically attested.

peri m (plural peris)

1. peri

peri m pl

1. plural of păr

peri

1. pearl

peri

1. debt

From Persian پری‎ (peri).

• Hyphenation: pe‧ri

peri (definite accusative periyi, plural periler)

1. fairy, pixie

From Proto-Celtic *kʷert, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer-.

peri (first-person singular present paraf)

1. (transitive) to cause, to induce

   Synonym: achosi

• peiriant (“machine, engine”)