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persan

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See also: Persan and Peršan

Esperanto

Adjective

persan

  1. accusative singular of persa

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French and Old French persan, from Perse + -an. Compare Middle French persien.

Pronunciation

Adjective

persan (feminine persane, masculine plural persans, feminine plural persanes)

  1. Persian

Noun

persan m (countable and uncountable, plural persans)

  1. (uncountable) Persian language
    Synonym: farsi
  2. (countable) Persian (cat)

Derived terms

See also

References

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Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin persōna.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpʲer.sən/
    • (Blasse) [ˈpʲer.san]
    • (Griffith) [ˈpʲer.sən]

Noun

persan f (genitive persine, nominative plural persin)

  1. person (individual; physical body seen as distinct from the mind)
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 14d26
      Is i persin Crist da·gníu-sa sin.
      It is in the person of Christ that I do that.
  2. (grammar) person (linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom or about whom he is speaking)
    • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 162a3
      In tan labratar ind ḟilid a persin inna ṅdea, do·gniat primam ⁊ secundam in illis.
      When the poets speak in the person of the gods, they make a first and second [person] in them.

For more quotations using this term, see Citations:persan.

Inflection

More information singular, dual ...
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

The nominative plural form persin is irregular and probably an intrusion from the n-stems, keeping in mind this word's transition to the n-stems from Middle Irish onwards. In the n-stems, -(a)in is regular for the nominative plural.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: persa
    • Irish: pearsa
    • Scottish Gaelic: pearsa

Mutation

More information radical, lenition ...

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

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Romanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from French persan.

Pronunciation

Adjective

persan m or n (feminine singular persană, masculine plural persani, feminine/neuter plural persane)

  1. Persian
    Synonym: persienesc

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

Noun

persan m (plural persani, feminine equivalent persană)

  1. a Persian man

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

See also

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