persen

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛrsə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: per‧sen
• Rhymes: -ɛrsən

From Middle Dutch persen. Equivalent to pers +‎ -en. Compare English pierce.

persen

1. to press tight, to squeeze

   Hij perst het sap uit de sinaasappels.

   He presses the juice out of the oranges.

• afpersen
• uitpersen
• perslucht

• Afrikaans: pers

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

persen

1. plural of pers

From perres +‎ -en.

• (Northern Ilocano) IPA^(key): /perˈsen/, [perˈsen]
• (Southern Ilocano) IPA^(key): /pɯrˈsɯn/, [pɯrˈsɯn]
• Hyphenation: per‧sen

përsë́n (perfective pinerres, imperfective perpersen, past imperfective pinerperres, future persento)

1. to press; to squeeze

• Rubino, Carl Ralph Galvez (2000) Ilocano Dictionary and Grammar: Ilocano-English, English-Ilocano, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, page 454

From Dutch percent, from Italian percento, from New Latin per centum (“by the hundred”). Doublet of prosen.

• IPA^(key): /pərˈsɛn/, [pərˈsɛn]
• Hyphenation: pêr‧sèn
• Rhymes: -en

persen (first-person possessive persenku, second-person possessive persenmu, third-person possessive persennya)

1. percent, percentage: the amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.
2. tip

• (percent): peratus, prosen, perseratus, seperseratus
• (percent): peratus (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)
• (tip): hadiah, pemberian, uang sirih, uang rokok

• → Chinese: 八仙 (pat-sian, “percent, percentage, tip”)[1]

• “persen” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From English percent or Dutch percent, from Italian percento, from New Latin per centum (“by the hundred”); first attested as percent in Kitab Vortaro in 1923.[1]

• IPA^(key): /pərˈsen/, [pərˈsen]
• Hyphenation: per‧sen

persen (plural persen-persen, informal 1st possessive persenku, 2nd possessive persenmu, 3rd possessive persennya)

1. (informal) percent: the amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.

   Synonym: peratus

• “persen” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.