sprite or supernatural being in Iranian/Persian mythology opposed to دیوسان (daemon) and دیو (daeva); peri. · fury · fairy
çekim: çoğul پریها
köken: From Middle Persian [script needed] (plyk' /parīg/, “witch”), ultimately from Old Persian *parikā. Compare Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫛𐫡𐫏𐫃 (pryg), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬐𐬁 (paⁱrikā, “sorceress, witch”), Sogdian [script needed] (pṛʿyk-, “female demoness”) and Old Armenian պարիկ (parik), an Iranian borrowing. Connections that have been proposed include Middle Irish airech (“concubine, wanton woman”), and…
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian پری (parī), from Middle Persian plyk' (parīg). By surface analysis, पर (par, “feathers, wings”) + -ई (-ī, “-ed”). Compare Bengali পরী (pori).