# perla
## Asturian
### Alternative forms

* perlla

### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

perla f (plural perles)
* pearl (rounded shelly concretion produced by certain mollusks)

## Catalan
### Etymology

Unknown, probably based on Vulgar Latin *pernula, diminutive of Latin perna, a kind of oyster. Cognate with Italian perla, French perle and Spanish perla.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈpɛr.lə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈpɛɾ.la]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

perla f (plural perles)
* pearl
* (heraldry) pall

#### Derived terms

* emperlar
* perla barroca
* perla cultivada
* perlat
* perlejar
* perler
* perlí
* pesca de perles

#### Related terms

* perlé

### Further reading

* “perla” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Chavacano
### Etymology

Inherited from Spanish perla (“pearl”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpeɾla/, [ˈpeɾ.la]
* Hyphenation: per‧la

### Noun

perla
* Alternative form of perlas

## Czech
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpɛrla]

### Noun

perla f (relational adjective perlový)
* pearl (rounded shelly concretion produced by certain mollusks)

#### Related terms

* perleť
* perlit

### Further reading

* “perla”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “perla”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “perla”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

### Anagrams

* lepra
* raple

## Faroese
### Etymology

From Latin perla.

### Noun

perla f (genitive singular perlu, plural perlur)
* pearl (rounded shelly concretion produced by certain mollusks)

#### Declension
## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: perlas, perlât

### Verb

perla
* third-person singular past historic of perler

## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse perla, a borrowing from Middle Low German perle, from Old Saxon perula, from Medieval Latin perla.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpʰɛrtla/
* Rhymes: -ɛrtla

### Noun

perla f (genitive singular perlu, nominative plural perlur)
* pearl

#### Derived terms

* perluvinir

#### See also

* gull af manni

## Interlingua
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

perla (plural perlas)
* pearl

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɛr.la/
* Rhymes: -ɛrla
* Hyphenation: pèr‧la

### Etymology 1

Uncertain. See pearl.

#### Noun

perla f (plural perle)
* (also figurative) pearl
* pill
* mistake

#### Adjective

perla (invariable)
* (relational) pearl

#### See also

* pastiglia
* pillola
* castroneria
* sfondone

#### Derived terms

* imperlare
* madreperla
* perlaceo
* perlagione
* perlato
* perlifero
* perlina
* perlite

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from French perle, the name given by Jean Jannon to the type used in his miniature editions of Vergil, Horace, & the New Testament in the 1620s, which were the smallest printed works to his time.

#### Noun

perla f (invariable)
* (printing, dated) a small size of type, standardized as 4 point

### Anagrams

* lepra

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈper.la/, [ˈpɛrɫ̪ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈper.la/, [ˈpɛrlä]

### Noun

perla f (genitive perlae); first declension
* Alternative form of perula
** 1272, an unknown source in The Natural History of Precious Stones and of the Precious Metals (1867), viii, page 269:
    Una Perla ad modum camahuti.A pearl in the manner of a cameo.

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

### References

* Jan Frederik Niermeyer, Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus : Lexique Latin Médiéval–Français/Anglais : A Medieval Latin–French/English Dictionary, fascicle I (1976), page 789/1, “perla”

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* perlen

### Noun

perla m or f
* definite feminine singular of perle

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

perla f
* definite singular of perle

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɛʁ.lɐ/ [ˈpɛɦ.lɐ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɛʁ.lɐ/ [ˈpɛɦ.lɐ]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ˈpɛɾ.lɐ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈpɛʁ.lɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɛɻ.la/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈpɛɾ.lɐ/
* Hyphenation: per‧la

### Noun

perla f (plural perlas)
* (heraldry) pall

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French perler.

### Verb

a perla (third-person singular present perlează, past participle perlat) 1st conjugation
* to bead

#### Conjugation
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Perle.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pêːrla/
* Hyphenation: per‧la

### Noun

pȇrla f (Cyrillic spelling пе̑рла)
* pearl
* bead

#### Declension
## Slovak
### Etymology

Derived from Latin perla.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɛrɫa/

### Noun

perla f (genitive singular perly, nominative plural perly, genitive plural perál, periel, declension pattern of žena)
* pearl (rounded shelly concretion produced by certain mollusks)

#### Derived terms

* perlový
* perlička

### References

* “perla”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpeɾla/ [ˈpeɾ.la]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɾla
* Syllabification: per‧la

### Etymology 1

Unknown, but cognate with Italian perla, French perle and Portuguese pérola. See pearl. The usual Latin word for a pearl was margarīta.

#### Noun

perla f (plural perlas)
* pearl
* bead
* (heraldry) pall

##### Derived terms

* aperlado
* concha de perla
* de perlas
* hilo de perlas
* madreperla
* mijo perla
* perlado
* perlífero

##### Descendants

* Chavacano: perla, perlas
* → Basque: perla
* → Ilocano: perlas

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from French perle, the name given by Jean Jannon to the type used in his miniature editions of Vergil, Horace, & the New Testament in the 1620s, which were the smallest printed works to his time.

#### Noun

perla f (uncountable)
* (printing, dated) a small size of type, standardized as 4 or 5 point
    Synonym: parisienne

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

perla
* inflection of perlar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “perla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

### Anagrams

* pelar, rapel