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.

Conjugation of persen (weak)
infinitive	persen
past singular	perste
past participle	geperst
infinitive	persen
gerund	persen n
	present tense	past tense
1st person singular	pers	perste
2nd person sing. (jij)	perst, pers2	perste
2nd person sing. (u)	perst	perste
2nd person sing. (gij)	perst	perste
3rd person singular	perst	perste
plural	persen	persten
subjunctive sing.1	perse	perste
subjunctive plur.1	persen	persten
imperative sing.	pers
imperative plur.1	perst
participles	persend	geperst
1) Archaic. 2) In case of inversion.

• 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) “persen”, in Byron W. Bender, editor, Ilocano Dictionary and Grammar: Ilocano-English, English-Ilocano‎^[1] (overall work in English and Ilocano), Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 454

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

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /pərˈsɛn/ [pərˈsɛn]
• Rhymes: -ɛn
• Syllabification: per‧sen

pêrsèn (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.