persan

persan

1. accusative singular of persa

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.sɑ̃/

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

1. Persian

persan m (countable and uncountable, plural persans)

1. (uncountable) Persian language

   Synonym: farsi

2. (countable) Persian (cat)

• lévrier persan
• persaniser

• Persan
• perse
• Perse
• persique

• Iran
• iranien

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

• panser, parens

Borrowed from Latin persōna.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʲer͈san]

persan f (genitive persine, nominative plural persin)

1. 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.

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.

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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.

• cétnae phersan
• persandae

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

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.

• persian

Borrowed from French persan.

• IPA^(key): /perˈsan/

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

1. Persian

   Synonym: persienesc

persan m (plural persani, feminine equivalent persană)

1. a Persian man

• persană female equivalent and language
• iranian