пера

Akin to Khvarshi пар (par).

пера (pera)

1. bee

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pьràti.

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пера́ • (perá) first-singular present indicative, impf (perfective пе́рна)

1. (originally) to apply friction, to pound one against another
   1. (transitive, intransitive) to wash, to launder (by hand)
   2. (transitive, intransitive) to do the laundry (with a machine)
2. (colloquial) to pelt, to smack
3. (figurative, of precipitation) to rain buckets (to rain heavily)

• пера́стя (perástja, “to bash”) (dialectal)

• “пера”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “пера”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Nayden Gerov, Тодор Панчев (1901) “пе́рѫ, -ешь; прахъ”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language]‎ (in Bulgarian), volume 4, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 25
• Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “пера”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 165

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пера́ • (perá)

1. indefinite plural of перо (pero)

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пера • (pera)

1. indefinite plural of перо (pero)

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пера́ • (perá) n inan

1. genitive singular of перо́ (peró)