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parle

parle noun: parley; talk.

Noun

parle (countable and uncountable, plural parles)

  1. (obsolete) Parley; talk.
    • Iul[ia]. Of all the faire reſort of Gentlemen, / That euery day with par’le encounter me, / In thy opinion which is worthieſt loue?c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  2. (obsolete) A nasty encounter.
    • Hor[atio].[…]So frown’d he once, when in an angry parle / He ſmot the ſledded Pollax on the Ice.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

Verb

parle (third-person singular simple present parles, present participle parling, simple past and past participle parled)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To talk; to converse; to parley.
    • […]Knute finding himſelf too weak, began to parle,[…]1670, John Milton, “The Sixth Book”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC, page 266

Proper noun capitalized: Parle

Parle

  1. A surname.

parle meaning in Urdu

parle in Urdu

بات چیت, گفتگو, مذاکرات

Forms of parle

Noun
pluralparles
Verb
third-person singular presentparles
present participleparling
past participleparled
pastparled

Origin of parle

Inherited from Middle English parlen (“to speak”), from Middle French parler, from Old French parler, from Late Latin parabolō.

Phrases with parle

Questions about parle

What does parle mean?
Parle means parley; talk.
What is parle in Urdu?
Parle in Urdu is بات چیت, گفتگو, مذاکرات. See Parle meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is parle?
Parle can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
What is the plural of parle?
The plural of parle is parles.

Words near parle in the dictionary

  1. Parlatos
  2. parlay
  3. parlayed
  4. parlaying
  5. parlays
  6. parle
  7. parled
  8. parlementary
  9. Parler
  10. parles
  11. Parlett

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Adapted from Wiktionary: parle (page history and authors); Parle (page history and authors); parle (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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