From Middle English pers, from Old French, from Medieval Latin persus, back-formed from Persicus (“Persian”),^[1] from Ancient Greek Περσικός (Persikós). Compare peach.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɜːs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɝs/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
• Homophone: purse

perse (countable and uncountable, plural perses)

1. A very dark (almost black) purple or blue-gray colour.
2. A cloth of this colour.

perse

1. Very dark greyish (almost blackish) purple or blue.

• Appendix:Colors

perse (third-person singular simple present perses, present participle persing, simple past and past participle persed or perst)

1. Obsolete form of pierce.

• peers, Reeps, spere, esper, Prees, Peres, pères, speer, Spree, spree, Esper, Peers, Serpe, prees

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perse

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of persen

• prees

• IPA^(key): /ˈperse/
• Rhymes: -erse
• Hyphenation: per‧se

perse

1. in Farsi

From Proto-Finnic *persek.

perse (genitive perse or persse, partitive perset)

1. (vulgar) arse, ass

• tagumik
• pepu
• taguots
• ahter

From Proto-Finnic *persek, possibly a derivative of root found in perä.

• IPA^(key): /ˈperseˣ/, [ˈpe̞rs̠e̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -erse
• Syllabification^(key): per‧se
• Hyphenation^(key): per‧se

perse (vulgar)

1. arse, ass (body part)

• bärsse, hanuri, peba, peppu, persaus, persus, pylly, takapuoli

• perskat

perse (vulgar)

1. shit, fuck (depletive)

   Voi perse! ― Oh shit!

• paska

• “perse”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

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perse (plural perses)

1. Persian

perse m (uncountable)

1. Persian (language)

• moyen perse
• vieux perse

• Perse

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛr.se/
• Rhymes: -ɛrse
• Hyphenation: pèr‧se

perse

1. third-person singular past historic of perdere

• perdé
• perdette

perse f

1. feminine plural of perso

• prese, serpe

Cognate to Baldemu pilish, which see for more cognates.

perse

1. horse

• Topics in Chadic linguistics 3, volume 3 (2007), page 71