persan

See also: Persan and Peršan

Esperanto

Adjective

persan

accusative singular of persa

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French and Old French persan, from Perse +‎ -an. Compare Middle French persien.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.sɑ̃/
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Adjective

persan (feminine persane, masculine plural persans, feminine plural persanes)

Persian

Noun

persan m (countable and uncountable, plural persans)

(uncountable) Persian language
Synonym: farsi
(countable) Persian (cat)

Derived terms

Related terms

References

“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)

person (individual; physical body seen as distinct from the mind)
- 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.
(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.

For more quotations using this term, see Citations:persan.

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	persan^L, persann	persin^L, persain	persin^H, persain
vocative	persan^L, persann	persin^L, persain	persana^H, persanna
accusative	persin^N, persain	persin^L, persain	persana^H, persanna
genitive	persine^H, persaine	persan^L, persann	persan^N, persann
dative	persin^L, 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

Descendants

Middle Irish: persa
- Irish: pearsa
- Scottish Gaelic: pearsa

Mutation

Mutation of *persan*
radical	lenition	nasalization
persan	phersan or unchanged	persan pronounced with /bʲ-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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)

Persian
Synonym: persienesc

Declension

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

Noun

persan m (plural persani, feminine equivalent persană)

a Persian man

Declension

Declension of **persan**
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
	singular		plural
nominative-accusative	persan	persanul	persani	persanii
genitive-dative	persan	persanului	persani	persanilor
vocative	persanule		persanilor