پیره

Ottoman Turkish

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bürge (“flea”); cognate with Azerbaijani birə, Bashkir бөрсә (börsə), Kazakh бүрге (bürge), Kyrgyz (bürgö), Turkmen büre, Uyghur بۈرگە (bürge) and Uzbek burga.

پیره • (pire) (definite accusative پیره‌یی (pireyi), plural پیره‌لر (pireler))

flea, any small, parasitic insect in the order Siphonaptera
Synonyms: برغوث (burgus), كیك (keyk)
aphid, any sap-sucking insect in the superfamily Aphidoidea
Synonym: یپراق بتی (yaprak biti)

پیره اوتی (pire otu, “fleabane”)
پیره كبی صیچرامق (pire gibi sıçramak, “to be alive and kicking”, literally “to jump like a flea”)
پیره‌لندرمك (pirelendirmek, “to make or let become a flea”)
پیره‌لنمك (pirelenmek, “to become a flea or aphyd”)
پیره‌لی (pireli, “affected by fleas”)
پیره‌یی نعللامق (pireyi naʼllamak, “to attempt the impossible”, literally “to shoe a flea”)

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