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peri

/ˈpɪə.ɹi/

peri noun: a sprite or supernatural being.

Noun

peri (plural peris)

  1. (Iranian) A sprite or supernatural being.
    • 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."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
    • 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 […]March 16 1916, Alfred Richard Orage, Arthur Moore, The New Age: A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature and Art, page 473
    Synonyms:
    fairy, pixie, sprite

Proper noun capitalized: Peri

Peri (plural Peris)

  1. A surname.

peri meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

peri in Hindi

sprite in Persian mythology
परी parī

peri in Tamil

சுற்று

peri in Marathi

sprite in Persian mythology
परी parī

peri in Urdu

sprite in Persian mythology
پری parī
More languagesFewer languages
peri in Kannada
ಪೆರಿ
peri in Punjabi
ਪਰੀ parī
peri in Nepali
परी parī
peri in Persian
پری pari

Synonyms of peri

Forms of peri

Noun
pluralperis
alternative formpari
Proper noun
pluralPeris

Plural of peri: peris

Origin of peri

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

Phrases with peri

Questions about peri

What does peri mean?
Peri means a sprite or supernatural being.
What is peri in Hindi?
Peri in Hindi is परी (parī). See Peri meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is peri?
Peri can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce peri?
Peri is pronounced /ˈpɪə.ɹi/ (UK).
What is the plural of peri?
The plural of peri is peris.

Words near peri in the dictionary

  1. perhydrosqualene
  2. perhydroxide
  3. perhydroxides
  4. perhydroxyl
  5. perhydroxyls
  6. peri
  7. peri'a
  8. peri-
  9. peri-apocalyptic
  10. peri-articularly
  11. peri-implantitis

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: peri (page history and authors); Peri (page history and authors); peri (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); peri (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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