PR

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pr"

㏚ U+33DA, ㏚ SQUARE PR ← ㏙ [U+33D9] CJK Compatibility ㏛ → [U+33DB]

Translingual

Symbol

PR

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Puerto Rico.

   Synonyms: PRI (alpha-3), US-PR (ISO 3166-2)

English

Proper noun

PR

1. Initialism of Puerto Rico: a territory of the United States.
2. Abbreviation of Paraná: a state of Brazil.
3. Initialism of Port Republic: a small city in New Jersey, United States.

Derived terms

• (Puerto Rico): PRUSVI

Noun

PR (countable and uncountable, plural PRs)

1. Initialism of public relations.
   • 2021 January 27, Christian Wolmar, “Little-used stations”, in RAIL, number 923, page 46:

     Well, let me reiterate them and then explain why, in my view, this response is bad PR.

2. Initialism of proportional representation.
   • 2023 July 21, Rob Ford, “Would proportional representation really doom the Tories?”, in New Statesman‎^[1]:

     Last year the Labour Party passed a conference motion backing proportional representation (PR) by an overwhelming margin.

3. Initialism of permanent residence.
4. Initialism of police report.
5. Initialism of personal representative.
6. Initialism of personal recognizance (bond).
7. (sports) Initialism of personal record.
8. (business) Initialism of purchase requisition.
9. (software engineering) Initialism of pull request.

   Synonym: MR

10. (tennis) Initialism of protected ranking.
11. Initialism of Puerto Rican.
12. (biochemistry) Initialism of progesterone receptor.
13. (medicine) Initialism of partial response.

    Coordinate term: CR

14. (hematology) Initialism of prothrombin ratio.
15. (medicine) A PR interval.
16. (electronics) Abbreviation of preset.
17. (sports) Initialism of Paralympic record.

    Coordinate terms: OR, CR, TR, MR, GR, NR, WR

Derived terms

• (public relations): PR-friendly

See also

• (prothrombin ratio): PT, INR

Adverb

PR (not comparable)

1. (medicine) Initialism of per-rectal or per rectum.

Descendants

• Georgian: პიარი (ṗiari)

Verb

PR (third-person singular simple present PRs, present participle PRing, simple past and past participle PRed)

1. (informal, ambitransitive, uncommon) To perform public relations work, such as promoting or managing publicity for something.

Anagrams

• R/P, RP, Rp

Chinese

Etymology

From English PR (“public relations”).

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pi¹ aau¹ / pi¹ aa¹ lou⁴

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: pi¹ aau¹ / pi¹ aa¹ lou⁴
    • Yale: pī āau / pī ā lòuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pi¹ aau¹ / pi¹ aa¹ lou⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: pi¹ ao¹ / pi¹ a¹ lou⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰiː⁵⁵ aːu̯⁵⁵/, /pʰiː⁵⁵ aː⁵⁵ lou̯²¹/

Noun

PR (Hong Kong Cantonese)

1. PR; public relations
2. public relations officer
3. (slang) nightclub hostess

Synonyms

• 公關 / 公关 (gung¹ gwaan¹)

Finnish

Etymology

From English PR.

Noun

PR

1. PR, public relations (communication by a person or an organization with the purpose of creating a favorable public image)

Synonyms

• suhdetoiminta

Derived terms

compounds

• PR-kampanja
• PR-mies
• PR-nainen
• PR-osasto
• PR-toimisto

Further reading

• “PR”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

Anagrams

• r.p., rp.

German

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [peːˈʔɛʁ], [peːˈʔɛɐ̯]

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

PR f (genitive PR, no plural)

1. (Germany) initialism of Öffentlichkeitsarbeit

   Synonym: ÖA

Declension

Declension of PR [sg-only, feminine]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	PR
genitive	einer	der	PR
dative	einer	der	PR
accusative	eine	die	PR

Etymology 2

Noun

PR m (strong, genitive PRs or PR, plural PR, feminine PR'in)

1. (Germany) abbreviation of Polizeirat

Declension

Declension of PR [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	PR	die	PR
genitive	eines	des	PRs, PR	der	PR
dative	einem	dem	PR	den	PR
accusative	einen	den	PR	die	PR

Hungarian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English PR.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpiːjaːr]
• Rhymes: -aːr

Noun

PR (plural PR-ok)

1. PR, public relations (communication by a person or an organization with the purpose of creating a favorable public image)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	PR	PR-ok
accusative	PR-t	PR-okat
dative	PR-nak	PR-oknak
instrumental	PR-ral	PR-okkal
causal-final	PR-ért	PR-okért
translative	PR-rá	PR-okká
terminative	PR-ig	PR-okig
essive-formal	PR-ként	PR-okként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	PR-ban	PR-okban
superessive	PR-on	PR-okon
adessive	PR-nál	PR-oknál
illative	PR-ba	PR-okba
sublative	PR-ra	PR-okra
allative	PR-hoz	PR-okhoz
elative	PR-ból	PR-okból
delative	PR-ról	PR-okról
ablative	PR-tól	PR-októl
non-attributive possessive – singular	PR-é	PR-oké
non-attributive possessive – plural	PR-éi	PR-okéi

Possessive forms of PR

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	PR-om	PR-jaim
2nd person sing.	PR-od	PR-jaid
3rd person sing.	PR-ja	PR-jai
1st person plural	PR-unk	PR-jaink
2nd person plural	PR-otok	PR-jaitok
3rd person plural	PR-juk	PR-jaik

Derived terms

Compound words

• PR-menedzser

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛ.ɛr/

Noun

PR (plural PR-PR)

1. HW; initialism of pekerjaan rumah (“homework”)

Usage notes

This term is not exclusive to text messaging, unlike English HW.

Further reading

• “PR”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Japanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English PR.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ピーアール [pìíáꜜàrù] (Nakadaka – [3])
• IPA^(key): [pʲiːa̠ːɾɯ̟]

Noun

PR(ピーアール) • (pīāru) 

1. synonym of パブリック・リレーションズ (paburikku rirēshonzu, “public relations”); PR
2. promotion

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

English PRubor.

Polish PR

Unadapted borrowing from English PR.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ar/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iar
• Syllabification: P‧R

Noun

PR m inan (indeclinable, related adjective PR-owski)

1. PR (communication by a person or an organization with the purpose of creating a favorable public image)

   Synonym: public relations

Derived terms

adjectives

• piarowski

nouns

• piarowiec
• PR-owiec

Further reading

• “PR”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “PR”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[4] (in Polish)

Anagrams

• RP

Portuguese

Proper noun

PR m

1. initialism of Presidente da República
2. abbreviation of Paraná: a state of Brazil
3. (Brazil, politics, historical) initialism of Partido da República (“Party of the Republic”), now PL

Further reading

• “PR”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “PR”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Proper noun

PR ?

1. initialism of Puerto Rico (“Puerto Rico (a commonwealth, island and dependent territory of the United States in the Caribbean)”)
   • 2025, “NUEVAYoL”, in DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS‎^[5][6][7], performed by Bad Bunny:

     Un shot de cañita en casa de Toñita y PR se siente cerquita

     A shot of rum at Toñita's house and Puerto Rico feels so close

Swedish

Noun

PR c

1. alternative letter-case form of pr (“PR, public relations”).
   • 2019 September 4, Love Bonnier, “Startups förstår sig inte på PR – så låt mig bjuda på några tips [Startups don't understand PR – so let me offer some tips]”, in Breakit:

     Det finns tre stora fallgropar som du ska undvika när du vill få PR till din startup, […]

     There are three major pitfalls to avoid when seeking PR for your startup, […]

Adverb

PR

1. abbreviation of poste restante (“poste restante”)