Pers
abbreviation
Pers
1 Americanabbreviation
pers.
2
American
abbreviation
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person.
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personal.
Pers.
3
American
abbreviation
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Persia.
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Persian.
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In south-east Switzerland, the Pers Glacier once fed the larger Morteratsch Glacier, which flows down towards the valley.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2025
A parallel glacier Pers flowed into it until 2017 but has now receded so much that an expanding strip of grit lies between them.
From Reuters ● Jul. 26, 2022
While the discount on the shares was “on the low side,” the dividend is attractive, Danske Bank analysts Poul Ernst Jessen and Erik Strandin Pers wrote in a report today.
From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 21, 2012
Must be carefully distinguished from Pax. panuoides. epigaeus, Pers.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
Differs in pure white colour and in sp. gilva, Pers.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
The inflexions of the 3rd pers. prs. sg. are -th and -s.
From Torrent of Portyngale by Unknown
Subj. and of the Imperat. supply the place of the Personal Pronouns; as does also the Termination of the 2d pers. plur. of the Imperative.
From Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Stewart, Alexander
Thus:— Root car, love; first pers. sing. pres., carav, I love, with pronoun, carav vî, pronounced and often written cara vî; plur., caron, we love, caron nŷ, often written caro nŷ.
From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Jenner, Henry
It was also frequently lost in the third pers. sing. pres. indicative of other verbs, as vint = vindet, siht = sihet, see § 9, 4 note.
From A Middle High German Primer Third Edition by Wright, Joseph
Has, haz, 3d pers. sing. pres. ind. of have.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Bßn· in Pers. = a princess, a lady, and is still much used, e.g.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Port., and It. forms; perh. of Ar. or Pers. origin.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Thus in India we have shēr, a tiger, as compared with modern Persian shīr; gō, but modern Pers. gū; bōstān, but modern Pers. būstān.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
In Aeschylus also an eagle represents the Persians and a falcon the Hellenes; "Pers." 205-210.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Duncker, Max
Pers. form of the old KhudßÝ=sovereign, king, as in Mßh-i-KhudßÝ=the sovereign moon, Kßm-KhudßÝ=master of his passions, etc.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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