eper

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• IPA^(key): /eper/ [e.per]

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• Rhymes: -eper, -er
• Hyphenation: e‧per

eper anim

1. partridge

• “eper”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “eper”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

eper

1. indefinite plural of epos

Uncertain,^[1] thought to come from *eperyə (-y- preserved in dialectal epërj,^[2] and in eperjes ‘strawberry patch’), from *eperɣə, from Proto-Ugric *äppärĕ-kə (“strawberry”), from Proto-Uralic *äppɜ-rɜ-kɜ.^[3] Cognates include Western Mansi ӓпрӓ (äprä) (Lower Lozva), [script needed] (ǟpėrėχ) (Pelym) and Southern Mansi [script needed] (äpriˈjėχ) (Tavda)

Also compared to Ket ээль (éèlʲ, “lingonberry, bilberry, cranberry”) and Yug эфыр (éfɨr, “cranberry”) (Proto-Yeniseian *epʰʌλ (“cranberry”)) by CHYD.^[4]

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛpɛr]

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• Hyphenation: eper
• Rhymes: -ɛr

eper (plural eprek)

1. (in common parlance, although unofficially) strawberry (on the ground)

   Synonyms: földi eper, szamóca

2. (in the strict, technical sense) mulberry (on a tree)

   Synonym: faeper

• eper in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• eper in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

·eper

1. first-person singular present subjunctive prototonic of as·beir
2. alternative form of ·epir

• as·ber (first-person singular present subjunctive deuterotonic)