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• pari (directly from Persian)

語源

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پری (peri), from Persian پری (pari).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈpɪə.ɹi/
• 韻: (英国発音) -ɪəɹi

名詞

peri (plural peris)

1. (Iranian mythology) A sprite or supernatural being.
   • January-June 1829, “The Adventures of Hatim-Beni-Tye”, in The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies‎, volume 27, page 549:

     He sent a Peri to Chundum Dew with a message: "If you wish to live, release the mortal in your power: if not, every demon in your service will immediately be put to the sword."

   • March 16 1916, Alfred Richard Orage, Arthur Moore, The New Age: A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature and Art, page 473:

     In an hour they hovered above Hampstead Heath, and the peri looked down for a lonely spot where she might alight in the sulphurous gloom of a dog-day sunset too blinding for anyone to look at […]

   • 2008, A Fire in My Heart: Kurdish Tales, page 75:

     The Padishah's son was also there, and he realized that the peri looked very familiar.

同意語

• (sprite): fairy, pixie, sprite

参考

• peri-peri

アナグラム

• pier, prie, ripe