پری

See also: پري, تري, ترى, بری, and تري-

Azerbaijani

Noun

پری

1. Arabic spelling of pəri

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian پری (pari).

Noun

پری • (peri)

1. fairy
2. (figurative) beautiful person

Descendants

• Turkish: peri
• → Albanian: perri
• → Armenian: փերի (pʿeri)
• → Crimean Tatar: peri
• → English: peri
• → French: péri
• → Russian: пе́ри (péri)

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دزد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 321

Persian

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian [script needed] (plyk' /⁠parīg⁠/, “witch”), ultimately from Old Persian *parikā. 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. Connections that have been proposed include Middle Irish airech (“concubine, wanton woman”), and from Indo-European root *pelē- ‘to fill,’ Latin plēnus ‘full.’ Middle Persian parīg, Khotanese 𑀧𑀮𑀻𑀓𑀸 (palīkā), Latin parcae (“fates”), Ancient Greek Παλλάς (Pallás, “youth, maiden”), Sanskrit पारक्य (pārakya, “strange, alien”). Pokorny derives this from Proto-Indo-European *parīkā (“concubine”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [pa.ˈɾiː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰä.ɾíː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰä.ɾíː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰä.ɾíː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰä.ɾí]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰæ.ɹíː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰä.ɾí]

Readings
Classical reading?	parī
Dari reading?	parī
Iranian reading?	pari
Tajik reading?	parī

Noun

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

Dari	پری
Iranian Persian
Tajik	парӣ

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

• Azerbaijani: pəri
• → Bengali: পরী (pori)
• Chagatai: پری
  • Uyghur: پەرى (peri)
  • Uzbek: pari
• → Gujarati: પરી (parī)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: परी (parī)

  Urdu: پری (parī)

• Kazakh: пері (perı)
• Northern Kurdish: perî
• Southern Kurdish: پەری (perî)
• Kyrgyz: пери (peri)
• Malay: peri
  • Indonesian: peri (“fairy”)
• Ottoman Turkish: پری (peri)
  • Turkish: peri
  • → Albanian: perri
  • → Armenian: փերի (pʿeri)
  • → Crimean Tatar: peri
  • → English: peri
  • → French: péri
  • → Russian: пе́ри (péri)
• Pashto: پري (pari)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਪਰੀ (parī)

  Shahmukhi script: پری (parī)

• Sindhi: پري (parī)
• Tajik: парӣ (parī)
• Tatar: пәри (päri)
• Turkmen: peri

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, Hračʿeay (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]‎^[2] (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, parêr, “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), Northern Kurdish pêr, Central Kurdish پەرێ (perê). Also compare Shirazi [Term?] (parigru(z)), Southern Luri [script needed] (parig).

Adverb

پری • (pari, parê)

1. (archaic) the day before yesterday

Noun

پری • (pari, parê)

1. (archaic) the day before yesterday

Derived terms

• پریروز (pariruz)
• پریشب (parišab)
• پریدوش (pariduš) (archaic)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian پری (parī), from Middle Persian plyk' (parīg).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /pə.ɾiː/

Noun

پَری • (parī) f (Hindi spelling परी)

1. fairy
2. peri
3. (figuratively) a beautiful woman

Declension

Declension of پری
	singular	plural
direct	پری (parī)	پریاں (pariyā̃)
oblique	پری (parī)	پریوں (pariyō̃)
vocative	پری (parī)	پریو (pariyō)

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “پری”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press