purree

English edit

Etymology edit

From a Hindi word for "yellow".

Noun edit

A substance used in making the pigment Indian yellow.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “purree”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Finnish edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈpurːeː/, [ˈpurːe̞ː]
Rhymes: -urːeː
Syllabification^(key): pur‧ree

Verb edit

purree

third-person singular present potential of purra