peri

plural peris · alternative pari

1. Iranianhuman sciencesA sprite or supernatural being, often a winged humanoid of immense beauty.

   The Padishah's son was also there, and he realized that the peri looked very familiar.

   2008, A Fire in My Heart: Kurdish Tales, page 75

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   He sent a Peri to Chundum Dew with a message: "If you wish to live, release the mortal in your power: if not, every demon in your service will immediately be put to the sword."

   January-June 1829, “The Adventures of Hatim-Beni-Tye”, in The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies, volume 27, page 549

   In an hour they hovered above Hampstead Heath, and the peri looked down for a lonely spot where she might alight in the sulphurous gloom of a dog-day sunset too blinding for anyone to look at […]

   March 16 1916, Alfred Richard Orage, Arthur Moore, The New Age: A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature and Art, page 473

   Synonyms: fairy, pixie, sprite

plural Peris

1. A surname.