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English American
Pearl (after the name of the semi-precious jewel).
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Hindu
Pearl Pearly just similar to Pearl
Female
English
Pet form of English Pearl, PEARLIE means "pearl."
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English
English : variant of Pearce.
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English
English : metonymic occupational name for a trader in pearls, which in the Middle Ages were fashionable among the rich for the ornamentation of clothes, from Middle English, Old French perle (Late Latin perla).Americanized form of Jewish Perel.
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Tamil
Pearl Pearly just similar to Pearl
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English
English : from Middle English pe(e)re ‘pear’ (Old English pere, peru, from Latin pirum), a metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of pears, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a pear tree or pear orchard.English : nickname from Middle English pere ‘peer’, ‘companion’ (Old French pe(e)r, from Latin par ‘equal’).Jewish : Americanization of some like-sounding Ashkenazic surname; e.g. possibly a shortened form of a surname such as Pearl, Pearlman, or Pearlstein.
Female
English
English gem name derived from the vocabulary word, from Latin perla, PEARL means "pearl." The pearl is the birthstone for the month of June.
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English
English : variant spelling of Pear.
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English
English : variant of Pear 1, with the addition of man ‘man’.
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American, Australian, British, English, Jamaican, Latin
Pearl; Precious; A Gem of the Sea
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Greek, Hindu, Indian
Form of Pearl; A Gem of the Sea
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Irish
Comes from the Norman French name “â€Piersâ€â€ and is still very popular as it is given to honor Patrick Pearse, one of the leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916 when Ireland won its independence from England.
Male
English
Variant spelling of English Piers, PEARCE means "rock, stone."
Female
English
Variant spelling of English Pearl, PEARLE means "pearl."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : metronymic from a form of the female personal name Margaret, via Late Latin Margarita from Greek margaritēs ‘pearl’. This was borne by several early Christian saints, and became a popular female personal name throughout Europe. The vocabulary word was borrowed into Latin and Greek from a Semitic source, and is probably ultimately from Persian morvarid ‘pearl’.
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Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
The Pearl
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American, Australian, British, Christian, English, Greek
Pearl; Diminutive of Pearl; After the Name of the Semi-precious Jewel
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English
English : variant of Pearce.
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English (West Midlands)
English (West Midlands) : habitational name from Pearshall in Staffordshire.
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n.
A glassy volcanic rock of a grayish color and pearly luster, often having a spherulitic concretionary structure due to the curved cracks produced by contraction in cooling. See Illust. under Perlitic.
v. i.
To give or hunt for pearls; as, to go pearling.
n.
Any fish whose scales yield a pearl-like pigment used in manufacturing artificial pearls, as the bleak, and whitebait.
n.
A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Pearls which are round, or nearly round, and of fine luster, are highly esteemed as jewels, and compare in value with the precious stones.
v. i.
To resemble pearl or pearls.
n.
Alt. of Pearlstone
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Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.
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Of or pertaining to pearl or pearls; made of pearls, or of mother-of-pearl.
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Active; lively; brisk; smart; -- often applied to convalescents; as, she is quite peart to-day.
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Of the form of a pear.
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Resembling pearl or mother-of-pearl; pearly in quality or appearance.
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The fleshy pome, or fruit, of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus communis), cultivated in many varieties in temperate climates; also, the tree which bears this fruit. See Pear family, below.
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Resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent; iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood.
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Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells.
n. pl.
Alt. of Pearlings
v. t.
To cause to resemble pearls; to make into small round grains; as, to pearl barley.
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Hence, figuratively, something resembling a pearl; something very precious.
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The name of several kinds of apples; as, the blue pearmain, winter pearmain, and red pearmain.
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Having a pearly speck in the eye; afflicted with the cataract.
v. t.
To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl. Used also figuratively.