perruque

See also: pèrruque

English

Noun

perruque (plural perruques)

Alternative form of peruke

French

Etymology

Probably borrowed from western Lombard perrucca, parrucca. Compare the phonetic changes of intervocalic -L- into -R- of Italian parlare and Sicilian parrari.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pɛ.ʁyk/, /pe.ʁyk/
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Noun

perruque f (plural perruques)

wig
(historical) wig, periwig, peruke

Derived terms

arbre à perruque

Related terms

perruquier

Descendants

→ Arabic: بَرُوكَة (barūka)
→ Catalan: perruca
→ Czech: paruka
→ Danish: paryk
→ German: Perücke
→ Greek: περούκα (peroúka)
→ English: periwig
→ English: peruke
→ English: wig
→ Esperanto: peruko
→ Spanish: peluca
→ Estonian: parukas
→ Finnish: peruukki
→ Galician: perruca
→ Ido: peruko
→ Italian: parrucca
→ Luxembourgish: Parréck
→ Lithuanian: perukas
→ Latvian: parūka
→ Macedonian: перика (perika)
→ Dutch: pruik
→ Norwegian Nynorsk: parykk
→ Norwegian: parykk
→ Plautdietsch: Pruck
→ Polish: peruka
→ Portuguese: peruca
→ Romanian: perucă
→ Turkish: peruk
→ Russian: парик (parik)
- → Azerbaijani: parik
- → Georgian: პარიკი (ṗariḳi)
- → Turkmen: parik
- → Uzbek: parik

Further reading

“perruque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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