puri

See also: Puri and purí

English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpʊəɹi/
  • Rhymes: -uːri

Etymology 1

From Hindi पूरी (pūrī), a kind of pancake

Noun

puri (countable and uncountable, plural puris)

  1. A type of unleavened bread from India and Pakistan, usually deep-fried.
    • 1831, Arnot (translator), Sandford, “Indian Cookery, as Practised and Described by the Natives of the East”, in Miscellaneous Translations from Oriental Languages‎, volume I, London: J.L. Cox, retrieved 2016-07-03, page 28:
      No. 17 PURI. Take Flour, ½ ser (1lb.)

Etymology 2

From Balinese puri, from Old Javanese purī (“palace, royal residence”).

Noun

puri (plural puris)

  1. In Bali and other parts of Indonesia, a palace, or other residence of a member of the royal family or ruling class.

Anagrams

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *buriz (“favourable wind”). Cognate to Finnish purje. A Baltic origin is also possible; compare Lithuanian burė.

Noun

puri (genitive purje, partitive purje)

  1. sail

Inflection
Declension of puri (type puri)
singular plural
nominative puri purjed
genitive purje purjede
partitive purje purjesid
illative purjesse / purje purjedesse
inessive purjes purjedes
elative purjest purjedest
allative purjele purjedele
adessive purjel purjedel
ablative purjelt purjedelt
translative purjeks purjedeks
terminative purjeni purjedeni
essive purjena purjedena
abessive purjeta purjedeta
comitative purjega purjedega

Finnish

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -uri

Verb

puri

  1. Third-person singular indicative past form of purra.

Anagrams

Indonesian

Noun

puri (plural puri-puri, first-person possessive puriku, second-person possessive purimu, third-person possessive purinya)

  1. castle (fortified building)
  2. palace, royal residence

See also

Italian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈpu.ri/

Adjective

puri

  1. plural of puro

Anagrams

Latin

Noun

pūrī

  1. dative singular of pūs

Adjective

pūrī

  1. nominative masculine plural of pūrus
  2. genitive masculine singular of pūrus
  3. genitive neuter singular of pūrus
  4. vocative masculine plural of pūrus

Latvian

Noun

puri m

  1. (dialectal form) nominative plural form of purs
  2. (dialectal form) vocative plural form of purs

Romani

Noun

puri

  1. Alternative form of pori

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