persan

See also: Persan and Peršan

Esperanto

Adjective

persan

1. accusative singular of persa

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.sɑ̃/

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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

• lévrier persan
• persaniser

Related terms

• Persan
• perse
• Perse
• persique

See also

• Iran
• iranien

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• panser, parens

Old Irish

FWOTD – 16 April 2013

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin persōna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʲer͈san]

Noun

persan f (genitive persine, nominative plural persin)

1. person
   • 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. 14^d26

     Is i persin Crist da·gníu-sa sin.

     It is in the person of Christ that I do that.

   • 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. 18^d14

     Ní airegdu a persan-som ol·daas persan na n‑abstal olchene, ceto thoísegu i n‑iriss.

     Their persons are not more eminent than the persons of the rest of the apostles, though they are prior in faith.

     (literally, “Their person is not … than the person of …”)

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 51^b10

     In tan as·mber Dauid “intellectum tibi dabo”, sech is arde són do·mbéra Día do neuch nod·n-eirbea ind ⁊ génas triit con·festar cid as imgabthi do dénum di ulc ⁊ cid as déinti dó di maith. Aithesc trá lesom insin a persin Dǽ.

     When David says, “I will give thee understanding”, that is a sign that God will give to everyone that will trust in him, and work through him, that he may know what evil he must avoid doing, and what good he must do. He has then here a reply in the person of God.

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. 162^a3

     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.

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	persanL, persann	persinL, persain	persinH, persain
Vocative	persanL, persann	persinL, persain	persanaH, persanna
Accusative	persinN, persain	persinL, persain	persanaH, persanna
Genitive	persineH, persaine	persanL, persann	persanN, persann
Dative	persinL, persain	persanaib, personaib, persunnaib	persanaib, personaib, persunnaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

The nominative plural form persin is irregular and probably borrowed directly from Latin persōnae.

Derived terms

• cétnae phersan
• persandae

Descendants

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

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
persan	phersan or unchanged	persan pronounced with /b(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Romanian

Alternative forms

• persian

Etymology

Borrowed from French persan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /perˈsan/

Adjective

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

1. Persian

   Synonym: persienesc

Declension

Declension of persan

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	persan		persană	persani	persane
	definite	persanul		persana	persanii	persanele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	persan		persane	persani	persane
	definite	persanului		persanei	persanelor	persanilor

Noun

persan m (plural persani, feminine equivalent persană)

1. a Persian man

Declension

Declension of persan

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) persan	persanul	(niște) persani	persanii
genitive/dative	(unui) persan	persanului	(unor) persani	persanilor
vocative	persanule		persanilor

See also

• persană female equivalent and language
• iranian