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3-letter words (2 found)

APE,PEA,

2-letter words (4 found)

AE,EA,PA,PE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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Definitions and meaning of pea

pea

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /piː/
  • Rhymes: -iː
  • Homophones: P, pee

Etymology 1

Back-formation from pease, an original singular reinterpreted as a plural. Further from Middle English pese (“a pea”), from Old English pisa, from Latin pisa, pisum, from Ancient Greek πίσον (píson).

Alternative forms

  • pease (archaic)

Noun

pea (plural peas or (archaic) pease)

  1. A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family.
  2. Any plant of the family Fabaceae.
  3. (cooking) The edible seed of Pisum sativum; the green pea.
  4. (cooking) The edible seed of various other pea plants.
  5. (Jamaica) Any of several varieties of bean.
    peas and rice
  6. (MLE, in the plural) Money.
Usage notes

See usage notes at bean regarding the differences in terminology.

Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Abenaki: piz (“a pea”)
  • → Mohegan-Pequot: pish (“a pea”)
  • → Yurok: pi·š, peeesh (“a pea”)
Translations

Etymology 2

From having the appearance of a pea (see English etymology 1), the edible seed of Pisum sativum, the pea plant.

Noun

pea (plural peas)

  1. (baseball) A ball travelling at high velocity.
  2. (US, Indiana, gambling) Any of the small numbered balls used in a pea shake game.
  3. (astronomy) Ellipsis of green pea galaxy.
Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English pe, po, poue, pa, paue, from Old English pēa, pāwa (“peacock”) (compare Old English pāwe (“peahen”)) and Old Norse pái (“peacock”), both from Proto-Germanic *pāwô (“peacock”), from Latin pāvō (“peacock”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pau, West Frisian pau, Dutch pauw, German Pfau. Doublet of Pavo.

Noun

pea (plural peas)

  1. (rare, archaic) a peafowl
Derived terms

Etymology 4

Noun

pea (plural peas)

  1. (nautical) Alternative form of peak

Further reading

  • pea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • EAP, EPA, PAE, Pae, ape

Basque

Noun

pea

  1. absolutive singular of pe

Chinese

Pronunciation

Noun

pea (Cantonese)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
    放pea [Cantonese]  ―  fong3 pe5 [Jyutping]  ―  to slack off

Derived terms

Adjective

pea (Cantonese)

  1. slack; without effort

Related terms

  • hea

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pää, from Proto-Uralic *päŋe. Cognate with Finnish pää and Hungarian fej.

Pronunciation

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

pea (genitive pea, partitive pead)

  1. head

Declension

Derived terms

Adverb

pea (not comparable)

  1. almost
  2. soon, immediately, quickly (in modern use almost always together with some other word or affix, such as kohe, õige, nii, -gi)

Further reading

  • “pea”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
  • “pea”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
  • “pea”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
  • pea in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Hawaiian

Etymology

From English bear.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpea/, [ˈpɛə]

Noun

pea

  1. bear

Derived terms

  • pea ʻālika (“polar bear”)
  • pea pāʻani (“teddy bear”)
  • pea Kina (“panda bear”)

Japanese

Romanization

pea

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ペア

Maori

Etymology

From English bear.

Noun

pea

  1. bear

Niuean

Etymology

From English bear.

Noun

pea

  1. bear

Rarotongan

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English bear.

Noun

pea

  1. bear

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English pear.

Noun

pea

  1. pear

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English pair.

Noun

pea

  1. pair

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpea/ [ˈpe.a]
  • Rhymes: -ea
  • Syllabification: pe‧a

Etymology 1

Deverbal from peer.

Noun

pea f (plural peas)

  1. (colloquial) drunkenness
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pea

  1. inflection of peer:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “pea”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swahili

Pronunciation

Verb

-pea (infinitive kupea)

  1. Applicative form of -pa: to give to

Conjugation

Tahitian

Etymology

Borrowed from English bear. Cognates include Hawaiian pea, Maori pea, Tokelauan pea and Wallisian pea.

Noun

pea

  1. bear

Tokelauan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpe.a/
  • Hyphenation: pe‧a

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *pea. Cognates include Tongan pea and Samoan pea.

Particle

pea

  1. Indicates a continuous action; keep on, continuously
  2. Indicates that the action was performed in spite of what preceded; nevertheless, still

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English pair.

Noun

pea

  1. pair
  2. A woman's costume worn over a long skirt.

Verb

pea

  1. (stative) to be alike

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English pear.

Noun

pea

  1. pear
  2. pear tree

Etymology 4

Borrowed from English bear. Cognates include Hawaiian pea, Maori pea, Tahitian pea and Wallisian pea.

Noun

pea

  1. bear

References

  • R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎[1], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 265

Wallisian

Etymology

Borrowed from English bear. Cognates include Hawaiian pea, Maori pea, Tahitian pea and Tokelauan pea.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pe.a/
  • Hyphenation: pe‧a

Noun

pea

  1. bear

Walloon

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pja/, /pɛː/

Noun

pea ? (plural peas)

  1. (anatomy) skin

West Makian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpe.a/

Noun

pea

  1. Alternative form of pia (“rice”)

References

  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎[2], Pacific linguistics

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