perruque

See also: pèrruque

English

Noun

perruque (plural perruques)

1. Alternative form of peruke

French

Etymology

Probably borrowed from western Lombard perrucca, parrucca. Compare the phonetic changes of intervocalic -L- into -R- of Italian parlare and Sicilian parrari.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛ.ʁyk/ ~ /pe.ʁyk/

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Noun

perruque f (plural perruques)

1. wig
2. (historical) wig, periwig, peruke

Derived terms

• arbre à perruque

Related terms

• perruquier

Descendants

• → Arabic: بَرُوكَة (barūka)
• → Catalan: perruca
• → Czech: paruka
• → Danish: paryk
• → German: Perücke
• → Greek: περούκα (peroúka)
• → English: periwig
• → English: peruke
• → English: wig
• → Esperanto: peruko
• → Spanish: peluca
• → Estonian: parukas
• → Finnish: peruukki
• → Galician: perruca
• → Ido: peruko
• → Italian: parrucca
• → Luxembourgish: Parréck
• → Lithuanian: perukas
• → Latvian: parūka
• → Macedonian: перика (perika)
• → Dutch: pruik
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: parykk
• → Norwegian: parykk
• → Plautdietsch: Pruck
• → Polish: peruka
• → Portuguese: peruca
• → Romanian: perucă
• → Turkish: peruk
• → Russian: парик (parik)
  • → Azerbaijani: parik
  • → Georgian: პარიკი (ṗariḳi)
  • → Turkmen: parik
  • → Uzbek: parik

Further reading

• “perruque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.