pirus

Inherited from Malay firus (“turquoise”), from Persian فیروزه (firuze, “turquoise”), پیروزه (piruze), from Middle Persian *pērōzag, from 𐭯𐭩𐭫𐭥𐭰 (pērōz, “victorious”).^[1]

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈpirus/ [ˈpi.rʊs]
• Rhymes: -irus
• Syllabification: pi‧rus

pirus (plural pirus-pirus)

1. turquoise:
   1. a sky-blue, greenish-blue, or greenish-gray semi-precious gemstone
   2. a pale greenish-blue colour, like that of the gemstone

      pirus:  

      Synonyms: biru pirus, toska

• “pirus” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

See pirum.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɪ.rʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpiː.rus]

pirus f (genitive pirī); second declension

1. a pear-tree

Second-declension noun.

• (a pear-tree): pirārius (Medieval Latin)

• pirārium (Medieval Latin)
• ⇒ Pyrola

• pirum

• “pĭrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pirus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "pirus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• pirus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “pirus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “pirus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pirus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

• pyrus on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la