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Peres is a Portuguese, Galician, and Sephardic-Jewish surname. Its Spanish variant is Pérez. In the Hungarian language, it means litigant ("peres fél"). It is common in both forms Peres and Perez as well as Peretz among descendants of Sephardi Jews in Puerto Rico. In Hebrew ( ), it is the name of the bird species "Gypaetus barbatus" (lammergeier). However, Peres, Perez, and Peretz are the transliteration of the Hebrew פרץ son of Tamar and Judah. In the biblical Book of Daniel, the words which form the "writing on the wall" at Belshazzar's feast are recorded initially as ''mene, mene, tekel, upharsin'' (Daniel 5:25) but the final word is given as ''peres'' in verse 28, where its meaning is said to be "Your kingdom has been divided, and given to the Medes and Persians". People with the surname Peres include: * Adans Lopez Peres (born 1975), Portuguese second husband of Princess Stéphanie of Monaco * Asher Peres (1934-2005), Israeli physicist (born Aristide Pressman) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese Language
Portuguese ( or, in full, ) is a western Romance language of the Indo-European language family, originating in the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. It is an official language of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe, while having co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, and Macau. A Portuguese-speaking person or nation is referred to as " Lusophone" (). As the result of expansion during colonial times, a cultural presence of Portuguese speakers is also found around the world. Portuguese is part of the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia and the County of Portugal, and has kept some Celtic phonology in its lexicon. With approximately 250 million native speakers and 24 million L2 (second language) speakers, Portuguese has approximately 274 million total speakers. It is usually listed as the sixth-most spoken language, the third-most sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
