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persa

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See also: Persa and persà

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Adjective

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

persa m or f by sense (plural perses)

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

Noun

persa m (uncountable)

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

Synonyms

  • persà

Hyponyms

The three standard dialects:

Other local dialects:

  • aimaq
  • darwazi
  • dehwari
  • hazaragi
  • pahlavani

Derived terms

  • persa antic (“Old Persian”)
  • persa clàssic (“Classical Persian”)
  • persa mitjà (“Middle Persian”)
  • persa modern (“Modern Persian”)
  • persa occidental (“Western Persian”)
  • persa oriental (“Eastern Persian”)

See also

  • bukharic
  • dzhidi
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Esperanto

Etymology

perso +‎ -a

Pronunciation

Adjective

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

Etymology

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

Adjective

persa m or f (plural persas)

  1. Persian
    Synonym: persiano

Noun

persa m or f by sense (plural persas)

  1. Persian (person)

Noun

persa m (uncountable)

  1. Persian (language)
    Synonym: parsi

Synonyms

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɛr.sa/
  • Rhymes: -ɛrsa
  • Hyphenation: pèr‧sa

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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, 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

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

  1. (archaic, literary) Persian

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

Noun

persa f (plural perse) (regional)

  1. synonym of maggiorana (“marjoram”)

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

persa f sg

  1. feminine singular of perso

Adjective

persa f sg

  1. feminine singular of perso

Further reading

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

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Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish persan, from Latin persōna.

Pronunciation

Noun

persa f (genitive persan)

  1. person, individual
  2. (grammar) person

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Irish: pearsa
  • Scottish Gaelic: pearsa

Mutation

More information radical, lenition ...

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Middle Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

Noun

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

Noun

persa m (plural persas)

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

Adjective

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)

Further reading

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Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

persa m or f (masculine and feminine plural persas)

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

Derived terms

Noun

persa m or f by sense (plural persas)

  1. Persian (native or inhabitant of Persia)

Noun

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.

Derived terms

Further reading

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