perse

From Middle English pers, from Old French, from Medieval Latin persus, back-formed from Persicus (“Persian”),[1] from Ancient Greek [Term?].

• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɝːs/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɜːs/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
• Homophone: purse

perse (countable and uncountable, plural perses)

1. A dark blue-gray colour.
2. A cloth of this colour.

perse

1. Dark greyish blue or purple.

• Appendix:Colors

perse (third-person singular simple present perses, present participle persing, simple past and past participle persed or perst)

1. Obsolete form of pierce.

• Esper, Peers, Prees, Reeps, Spree, esper, peers, pères, speer, spere, spree

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perse

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of persen

• prees

perse

1. in Farsi

From Proto-Finnic *persek.

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1. (vulgar) arse, ass

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• tagumik
• pepu
• taguots
• ahter

From Proto-Finnic *persek, possibly a derivative of root found in perä.

• IPA^(key): /ˈperseˣ/, [ˈpe̞rs̠e̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -erse
• Syllabification^(key): per‧se

perse (vulgar)

1. arse, ass (body part)

• bärsse, hanuri, peba, peppu, persaus, persus, pylly, takapuoli

• perskat

perse (vulgar)

1. shit, fuck (depletive)

   Voi perse! ― Oh shit!

• paska

• “perse”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

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perse (plural perses)

1. Persian

perse m (uncountable)

1. Persian (language)

• moyen perse
• vieux perse

• Perse

• “perse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛr.se/
• Rhymes: -ɛrse
• Hyphenation: pèr‧se

perse

1. third-person singular past historic of perdere

• perdé
• perdette

perse f

1. feminine plural of perso

• prese, serpe

Cognate to Baldemu pilish, which see for more cognates.

perse

1. horse

• Topics in Chadic linguistics 3, volume 3 (2007), page 71