perron

• perowne (14th–15th centuries)

From Middle French pierre (“stone”), from Anglo-Norman perron.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛɹən/, /ˈpɛɹɒ̃/

perron (plural perrons)

1. (historical) A stone block used as the base of a monument, marker, etc.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “ij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:

     hit wille be no worship for you to haue adoo with me / for ye are fressh and I am wounded sore / And therfor and ye wille nedes haue ado with me / Assigne me a day and thenne I shal mete with you withoute fayle / ye saye wel said sir Tristram / Now I assigne you to mete me in the medowe by the ryuer of Camelot / where Merlyon sette the peron

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (architecture) A platform outside the raised entrance to a church or large building, or the steps leading to such a platform. US: stoop.

• pernor, proner

perron

1. platform (A raised structure from which passengers can enter or leave a train)

Borrowed from German Perron, from French perron, from Middle French perron, from Old French [Term?].

• IPA^(key): /pɛˈrɔn/, /pəˈrɔn/

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• Hyphenation: per‧ron
• Rhymes: -ɔn

perron n (plural perrons, diminutive perronnetje n)

1. a boarding platform on which passengers wait for a train: it is next to a spoor

• Afrikaans: perron
• → Indonesian: peron
• → Sranan Tongo: peron

• porren

From pierre +‎ -on.

• IPA^(key): /pɛ.ʁɔ̃/ ~ /pe.ʁɔ̃/

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perron m (plural perrons)

1. steps (to an entranceway), perron, stoop (US)

• → German: Perron
  • → Danish: perron
  • → Dutch: perron
    • Afrikaans: perron
    • → Indonesian: peron
    • → Sranan Tongo: peron
  • → Hungarian: peron
  • → Norwegian:
    • Norwegian Bokmål: perrong
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: perrong
• → Bulgarian: перон (peron)
• → Macedonian: перон (peron)
• → Polish: peron
• → Russian: перрон (perron)
• → Swedish: perrong

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

• prôner

perron m (plural perrons)

1. perron (stone block used as the base of a monument, marker, etc.)
   • 1552, François Rabelais, Le Tiers Livre:

     Ces parolles dictes, se retira en sa tesniere, & sus le perron de la porte se recoursa robe, cotte, & chemise iusques aux escelles, & leurs monstroit son cul.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• perrun, perun (Anglo-Norman)

p(i)erre (“stone”) +‎ -on.

perron oblique singular, m (oblique plural perrons, nominative singular perrons, nominative plural perron)

1. block of stone

• → English: perron

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