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parch

See also: Parch.

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English parchen, paarchen (“to parch; dry; roast”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant of Middle English perchen (“to roast”).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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parch (third-person singular simple present parches, present participle parching, simple past and past participle parched)

  1. (transitive) To burn the surface of, to scorch.
    The sun today could parch cement.
  2. (transitive) To roast, as dry grain.
  3. (transitive) To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat.
    The patient’s mouth is parched from fever.
  4. (transitive, colloquial) To make very thirsty.
    We're parched, hon. Could you send up an ale from the cooler?
    • 1828, George Croly, Salathiel: A Story of the Past, the Present, and the Future, page 65:
      In my haste I stumbled , and fell over one of the wounded; he groaned, and prayed me for a cup of water to cool the thirst that parched him.
    • 1870 February 1, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, “The Eagle and the Hen”, in The Sword and the Trowel, page 52:
      Serpents bit them, thirst parched them, Amalekites assailed them.
    • 1882, William Dean Howells, A Woman's Reason, page 245:
      They had no water on the wreck, and a consuming thirst parched them.
    • 1919, David Anderson, The Blue Moon: A Tale of the Flatwoods, page 245:
      Whether it was the cup he drank from, or the thirst that parched him, he took no thought, but it was the sweetest drink that ever passed his lips.
    • 1996, Xosé Luis Méndez Ferrín, Them and Other Stories, page 159:
      That there had been certain couplings was only because in opening up tunnels of betrayal and shadows in forbidden bodies and imaginations, they were quenching the thirst for Artur that parched them all, that they all professed in limitless ardour.
    • 2011, James Ellroy, The Cold Six Thousand, page 399:
      Pete sipped RC. Bennies parched him bad.
  5. (transitive, archaic) To boil something slowly (Still used in Lancashire in parched peas, a type of mushy peas).
  6. (intransitive) To become superficially burnt; to become sunburned.
    The locals watched, amused, as the tourists parched in the sun, having neglected to apply sunscreen or bring water.

Translations

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Noun

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parch (plural parches)

  1. The condition of being parched.
    • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 64:
      Yet here he is, not at the head, but somewhere toward the rear of the serpentine queue wending its way through all this parch […].

Polish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pь̑rxъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *piršas, from Proto-Indo-European *pŕ̥s-o-s, from *pers-.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -arx
  • Syllabification: parch

Noun

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parch m inan

  1. dermatophytosis
    Synonyms: grzybica woszczynowa, strupień woszczynowy
  2. scab (fungal disease of plants and the lesions it causes)

Declension

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Declension of parch
singular
nominative parch
genitive parchu
dative parchowi
accusative parch
instrumental parchem
locative parchu
vocative parchu

Noun

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parch m pers (female equivalent parchulka)

  1. (dated or dialectal, Far Masovian, derogatory, ethnic slur, religious slur, Judaism) kike, Yid (Jewish person)
    Synonyms: icek, mosiek, żydek, Żydzisko
  2. (Kuyavia, derogatory, figuratively) minor nobleman; city dweller

Declension

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Declension of parch
singular plural
nominative parch parchy
genitive parcha parchów
dative parchowi parchom
accusative parcha parchów
instrumental parchem parchami
locative parchu parchach
vocative parchu parchy

Derived terms

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adjectives
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adjective
adverb
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Further reading

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  • parch in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • parch in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  •   Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego/parch on the Polish Wikisource.Wikisource pl
  • Oskar Kolberg (1867) “parch”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 274
  • Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “parch”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 118

Welsh

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Etymology

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Back-formation from parchu (“to respect”).

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Noun

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parch m (usually uncountable, plural parchau or peirch)

  1. respect
  2. reverence, veneration

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of parch
radical soft nasal aspirate
parch barch mharch pharch

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “parch”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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