English

Proper noun

Puri

1. City in Orissa state, India, on the Bay of Bengal.

English

Alternative forms

• poori, puree

Noun

puri ‎(plural puris)

1. A type of unleavened bread from India and Pakistan, usually deep-fried.
   • 1831, Arnot (translator), Sandford, “Indian Cookery, as Practised and Described by the Natives of the East”, in Miscellaneous Translations from Oriental Languages, volume I, London: J.L. Cox, retrieved 2016-07-03, page 28:

     No. 17 PURI. Take Flour, ½ ser (1lb.)

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *buriz ‎(“favourable wind”). Cognate to Finnish purje. A Baltic origin is also possible; compare Lithuanian burė.

Noun

puri ‎(genitive purje, partitive purje)

1. sail

Inflection

Finnish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uri

Verb

puri

1. Third-person singular indicative past form of purra.

Anagrams

• piru, rupi

Indonesian

Noun

puri

1. castle (fortified building)
2. palace, royal residence

Italian

Adjective

puri

1. plural of puro

Anagrams

• rupi

Latin

Noun

pūrī

1. dative singular of pūs

Adjective

pūrī

1. nominative masculine plural of pūrus
2. genitive masculine singular of pūrus
3. genitive neuter singular of pūrus
4. vocative masculine plural of pūrus

Latvian

Noun

puri m

1. (dialectal form) nominative plural form of purs
2. (dialectal form) vocative plural form of purs

Romani

Etymology

From Armenian փոր ‎(pʿor, “bowels, entrails”).

Noun

puri

1. Alternative form of pori

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “փոր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, published 1926–1935
• Vaillant, Jean-Alexandre (1868), “puri”, in Grammaire, dialogues et voabulaire de la langue des Bohémiens ou Cigains (in French), Paris: Maisonneuve, page 123b