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persa

See also: Persa and persà

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Etymology

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From persà, from Latin Persa, Persēs, from Ancient Greek Περσίς (Persís), from Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (p-a-r-s /⁠Pārsa⁠/, “Persia”).

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Adjective

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persa m or f (masculine and feminine plural perses)

  1. Persian (pertaining to Persia or the Persian people)
    Synonym: persà
  2. Persian (pertaining to the Persian language)

Noun

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persa m or f by sense (plural perses)

  1. Persian (an inhabitant of Persia or a member of the Persian people)

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persa m (uncountable)

  1. Persian (an Indo-Aryan language used primarily in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan)

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Hyponyms

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The three standard dialects:

Other local dialects:

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Esperanto

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Etymology

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perso +‎ -a

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Adjective

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persa (accusative singular persan, plural persaj, accusative plural persajn)

  1. Persian (of or pertaining to the Persian people or their language)
  2. Persian (of the Persian breed of cats) (of cats)

Galician

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Etymology

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From Latin Persa, Persēs, from Ancient Greek Περσίς (Persís), from Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (p-a-r-s /⁠Pārsa⁠/, “Persia”).

Adjective

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persa m or f (plural persas)

  1. Persian
    Synonym: persiano

Noun

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persa m or f by sense (plural persas)

  1. Persian (person)

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persa m (uncountable)

  1. Persian (language)
    Synonym: parsi

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Italian

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Latin Persa, Persēs, from Ancient Greek Πέρσης (Pérsēs), from Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (p-a-r-s /⁠Pārsa⁠/, “Persia”).

Noun

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persa m or f by sense (masculine plural persi, feminine plural perse)

  1. (archaic, literary) Persian (someone from Persia)
    Synonym: persiano
    • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XIX, pages 352–353, lines 112–117:
      Che poran dir li Perse a’ vostri regi, ¶ come vedranno quel volume aperto ¶ nel qual si scrivon tutti suoi dispregi? ¶ Lì si vedrà, tra l’opere d’Alberto, ¶ quella che tosto moverà la penna, ¶ per che ’l regno di Praga fia diserto.
      What to your kings may not the Persians say, when they that volume opened shall behold in which are written down all their dispraises? There shall be seen, among the deeds of Albert, that which ere long shall set the pen in motion, for which the realm of Prague shall be deserted.
    • 1807, Ugo Foscolo, Dei Sepolcri‎[1], Molini, Landi e comp., published 1809, page 16:
      un Nume […] nutría contro a’ Persi in Maratona […] la virtù Greca e l'ira.
      In Marathon, against the Persians, a deity was feeding the Greeks' virtue and rage.

Adjective

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persa (masculine plural persi, feminine plural perse)

  1. (archaic, literary) Persian

Etymology 2

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From Latin persea (“sebesten tree”), from Ancient Greek περσέα (perséa).

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Noun

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persa f (plural perse) (regional)

  1. Synonym of maggiorana (“marjoram”)

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

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persa f sg

  1. feminine singular of perso

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persa f sg

  1. feminine singular of perso

Further reading

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  • persa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

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Middle Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish persan, from Latin persōna.

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Noun

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persa f (genitive persan)

  1. person, individual
  2. (grammar) person

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Descendants

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  • Irish: pearsa
  • Scottish Gaelic: pearsa

Mutation

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Middle Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
persa phersa persa
pronounced with /b(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Etymology

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From Latin Persa, Persēs, from Ancient Greek Περσίς (Persís), from Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (p-a-r-s /⁠Pārsa⁠/, “Persia”). Displaced Old Galician-Portuguese perssião.

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  • Hyphenation: per‧sa

Noun

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persa m or f by sense (plural persas)

  1. Persian (member of ethnic group native to the Iranian plateau)
    Synonym: persiano
  2. Iranian (person from Iran)
    Synonym: iraniano

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persa m (plural persas)

  1. (uncountable) Persian; Farsi (national language of Iran)
    Synonyms: farsi, iraniano

Adjective

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persa m or f (plural persas, not comparable)

  1. Persian (of Persia)
    Synonyms: pérseo, persiano, pérsico
  2. Iranian (of Iran)
    Synonym: iraniano
  3. Persian (of the Persian language)
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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin Persa, Persēs, from Ancient Greek Πέρσης (Pérsēs), from Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (p-a-r-s /⁠Pārsa⁠/).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpeɾsa/ [ˈpeɾ.sa]
  • Rhymes: -eɾsa
  • Syllabification: per‧sa

Adjective

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persa m or f (masculine and feminine plural persas)

  1. Persian (of, from, or pertaining to Persia)

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Noun

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persa m or f by sense (plural persas)

  1. Persian (person from Persia)

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persa m (uncountable)

  1. Persian (language)
    Su padre es de Teherán, pero no empezó a aprender persa hasta este año.
    His/her father is from Tehran, but he/she didn't start to learn Persian until this year.

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