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parch
English
Etymology
From Middle English parchen, paarchen (“to parch; dry; roast”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant of Middle English perchen (“to roast”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /p??t?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p??t?/
- Rhymes: -??(r)t?
Verb
parch (third-person singular simple present parches, present participle parching, simple past and past participle parched)
- (transitive) To burn the surface of, to scorch.
- The sun today could parch cement.
- (transitive) To roast, as dry grain.
- Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn.
- (transitive) To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat.
- The patient's mouth is parched from fever.
- (transitive, colloquial) To make very thirsty.
- We're parched, hon. Could you send up an ale from the cooler?
- (transitive, archaic) To boil something slowly (Still used in Lancashire in parched peas, a type of mushy peas).
- (intransitive) To become superficially burnt; be become sunburned.
- The locals watched, amused, as the tourists parched in the sun, having neglected to apply sunscreen or bring water.
Translations
Noun
parch (plural parches)
- The condition of being parched.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 64:
- Yet here he is, not at the head, but somewhere toward the rear of the serpentine queue wending its way through all this parch […].
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 64:
Polish
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *p??rx?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /parx/
Noun
parch m inan
- dermatophytosis
- Synonyms: grzybica woszczynowa, strupie? woszczynowy
- scab (fungal disease of plants and the lesions it causes)
Declension
Derived terms
- parszywie?
- parszywiec
- parszywy
Noun
parch m pers
- (derogatory, ethnic slur, dated) kike
Declension
Derived terms
- parchaty
Further reading
- parch in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- parch in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- S?ownik etymologiczny j?zyka polskiego/parch on the Polish Wikisource.pl.Wikisource:S?ownik etymologiczny j?zyka polskiego/parch
Welsh
Etymology
Back-formation from parchu (“to respect”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /par?/
Noun
parch m (usually uncountable, plural parchau or peirch)
- respect
- reverence, veneration
Derived terms
- parchus (“respectable; respectful”)
Mutation
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perch
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /p??t?/
- (US) IPA(key): /p?t?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t?
Etymology 1
From Middle English perche, from Old French perche, from Latin perca, from Ancient Greek ????? (pérk?, “perch”), cognate with ??????? (perknós, “dark-spotted”).
Noun
perch (plural perches or perch)
- Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca.
- Any of the about 200 related species of fish in the taxonomic family Percidae, especially:
- (South Africa) Acanthopagrus berda
- (Ghana) Distichodus engycephalus, Distichodus rostratus
- (Australia) Johnius belangerii, Macquaria ambigua, Macquaria colonorum, Macquaria novemaculeata, Nemadactylus macropterus
- (US) Kyphosus azureus
- (Britain) Lateolabrax japonicus, Tautogolabrus adspersus
- Several similar species in the order Perciformes, such as the grouper.
Hyponyms
- (fish in genus Perca): Balkhash perch, European perch, yellow perch
- (fish in family Percidae): darter, pike-perch, zander
- (fish in order Perciformes): bass
Derived terms
- American perch (Perca flavescens)
- Balkhash perch (Perca schrenkii)
- bass perch (Morone americana)
- black perch (Embiotoca jacksoni)
- blue perch (Badis badis)
- bluenose perch (Morone americana)
- great perch (Nemadactylus douglasii)
- gray perch (Morone americana)
- lake perch (Perca flavescens)
- logperch
- perch pest
- perchlet
- pikeperch
- raccoon perch (Perca flavescens)
- red perch
- red gurnard perch (Helicolenus percoides)
- rose fish (Sebastes norvegicus)
- Pacific ocean perch (Sebastes alutus)
- Japanese red seaperch (Sebastes inermis)
- barber perch (Caesioperca rasor)
- red-bellied perch (Lepomis auritus)
- ring-tail perch (Perca flavescens)
- ringed perch (Perca flavescens)
- rockperch (Girella tricuspidata)
- sandperch
- sea perch (Morone americana)
- seaperch
- silver perch (Morone americana)
- stone perch (Acerina cernua)
- striped perch (Perca flavescens)
- surfperch
- trout-perch (Persopsis omiscomaycus)
- white perch (Morone americana)
- yellow perch (Perca flavescens)
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English perche, from Old French perche, from Latin pertica (“staff”, “long pole”, “measuring rod”).
Noun
perch (plural perches or perch)
- A rod, staff, or branch of a tree etc used as a roost by a bird.
- 1859, Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King, Dedication
- Not making his high place the lawless perch / Of winged ambitions.
- 1859, Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King, Dedication
- A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.
- (figuratively) A position that is secure and advantageous, especially one which is prominent or elevated.
- (figuratively) A position that is overly elevated or haughty.
- (dated) A linear measure of 5 1?2 yards, equal to a rod, a pole or 1?4 chain; the related square measure.
- A cubic measure of stonework equal to 16.6 × 1.5 × 1 feet.
- (textiles) A frame used to examine cloth.
- A bar used to support a candle, especially in a church.
- (theater) A platform for lights to be directed at the stage.
Derived terms
- knock someone off his perch
Translations
Verb
perch (third-person singular simple present perches, present participle perching, simple past and past participle perched)
- (intransitive) To rest on a perch (especially, of a bird); to roost.
- (intransitive) To sit upon the edge of something.
- (intransitive) To stay in an elevated position.
- (transitive) To place something on (or as if on) a perch.
- (transitive, intransitive, textiles) To inspect cloth using a perch.
Translations
Middle English
Noun
perch
- Alternative form of perche (“pole”)
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