# پری
## Azerbaijani
### Noun

پری
* Arabic spelling of pəri

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian پری (pari).

### Noun

پری • (peri)
* fairy
* (figurative) beautiful person

#### Descendants

* Turkish: peri
* → Albanian: perri
* → Armenian: փերի (pʻeri)
* → Crimean Tatar: peri
* → English: peri
* → French: péri
* → Georgian: ფერია (peria)
* → Russian: пе́ри (péri)

### Further reading

* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دزد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, 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 (pa$^i$rikā, “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: [pa.ˈɾiː]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [pʰä.ɾíː]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [pʰä.ɾíː]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [pʰä.ɾíː]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [pʰä.ɾí]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [pʰæ.ɹíː]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [pʰä.ɾí]

#### Noun

پری • (pari) (plural پریان (pariyān) or پری‌ها (pari-hâ))
* (Iranian mythology) sprite or supernatural being in Iranian/Persian mythology opposed to دیوسان (daemon) and دیو (daeva); peri.
* (Roman mythology) fury
* (mythology) fairy
* (mythology) witch (parika in Avestan mythology)
* (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 (pʻeri)
** → Crimean Tatar: peri
** → English: peri
** → French: péri
** → Georgian: ფერია (peria)
** → Russian: пе́ри (péri)
* Pashto: پري (pari)
* → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਪਰੀ (parī)
    Shahmukhi script: پری (parī)
* Sindhi: پري (parī)
* Tajik: парӣ (pari)
* Tatar: пәри (päri)
* Turkmen: peri

#### Proper noun

پری • (pari)
* Diminutive form of several female Persian given names starting with this word.
* 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, Hračʻeay (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]‎ (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

From پر (por, “full”) +‎ ی (-i, “-ness”).

#### Noun

پری • (pori)
* fullness
    Synonym: 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 Mazanderani پره (pare), 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)
* (archaic) the day before yesterday

#### Noun

پری • (pari, parê)
* (archaic) the day before yesterday

##### Derived terms

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

#### References

* ↑ Nyberg H. S. (posthumous), Utas, Bo, editors (1988), Frahang-i pahlavīk, Toll, Christopher, collaborator, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 106
* ↑ Horn, Paul (1893) Grundriss der neupersischen Etymologie (in German), Strasbourg: K.J. Trübner, page 69
* ↑ Talebi, Ali (2012) مشتی از مرواریدهای فراموش‌شده‌ی مازندران (فرهنگ واژگانی) [A Handful of the Forgotten Pearls of Mazandaran (Dictionary)]‎, Amol, page 72

## Sindhi
### Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit [Term?].

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [pəre]

### Adverb

پَري • (pare) (Devanagari परे)
* far

### References

* Khānu, Balocu (1960–1988) “پَري”, in Jāmiʻ Sindhī lughāta (in Sindhi), Hyderabad, Sindh: Sindhī Adabī Borḍ

## Urdu
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /pə.ɾiː/

### Noun

پَری • (parī) f (Hindi spelling परी)
* fairy
* peri
* (figuratively) a beautiful woman

#### References

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