perruque

See also: pèrruque

English

Noun

perruque (plural perruques)

1. Alternative form of peruke.

French

Etymology

Probably borrowed from western Lombard 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)

1. wig

Derived terms

• arbre à perruque

Related terms

• perruquier

Descendants

Unsorted borrowings:

• → Albanian: parukë
• → Arabic: بَرُوكَة (barūka)
• → Belarusian: пары́к (parýk)
• → Bulgarian: перу́ка (perúka)
• → Catalan: perruca
• → Czech: paruka
• → Danish: paryk
• → Dutch: pruik
• → Greek: περούκα (peroúka)
• → English: peruke, periwig, ⇒ wig (see there for further descendants)
• → Esperanto: peruko
  • → Ido: peruko
• → Estonian: parukas
• → Finnish: peruukki
• → Galician: perruca
• → German: Perücke
• → Latvian: parūka
• → Lithuanian: perukas
• → Luxembourgish: Parréck
• → Macedonian: перика (perika)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: parykk
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: parykk
• → Occitan: perruca
• → Plautdietsch: Pruck
• → Polish: peruka
• → Portuguese: peruca
• → Romanian: perucă
• → Russian: парик (parik) (see there for further descendants)
• → Serbo-Croatian: pèrika / пѐрика
• → Slovak: parochňa
• → Spanish: peluca
• → Swedish: peruk
• → Turkish: peruk
• → Ukrainian: перу́ка (perúka)

Further reading

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