Definitions and meaning of pea
pea
Translingual
Etymology
Abbreviation of English Peranakan Indonesian or Malay peranakan.
Symbol
pea
- (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Peranakan Indonesian.
See also
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- Wiktionary’s coverage of Peranakan Indonesian terms
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /piː/
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- Homophones: P, pee
- Rhymes: -iː
Etymology 1
Back-formation from pease, an original singular reinterpreted as a plural. Further from Middle English pese (“a pea”), from Old English pise, from Latin pisa, pisum, from Ancient Greek πίσον (píson).
Alternative forms
Noun
pea (plural peas or (archaic) pease)
- Any of certain plants of the family Fabaceae: Pisum sativum and others.
- Coordinate term: bean
- Hyponyms: garden pea; field pea, cowpea, black-eyed pea; pigeon pea, sea pea, sweetpea, sweet pea
- (especially, when without a qualifier) A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family.
- Hyponyms: snap pea, snow pea, sugar pea, sugar snap pea
- (cooking) The edible seed of Pisum sativum.
- Hyponyms: snap pea, snow pea, sugar pea, sugar snap pea
- (cooking) The edible seed of various other pea plants.
- Hyponyms: field pea, cowpea, black-eyed pea
- Any of several varieties of bean.
- peas and rice
- (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)
- (baseball) A ball travelling at high velocity.
- (US, Indiana, gambling) Any of the small numbered balls used in a pea shake game.
- (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)
- (rare, archaic) a peafowl
Derived terms
Etymology 4
Noun
pea (plural peas)
- (nautical) Alternative form of peak.
Further reading
- pea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- APE, Pae, ape, EAP, PAE, EPA
Basque
Noun
pea
- absolutive singular of pe
Chinese
Pronunciation
Noun
pea (Cantonese)
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- 放pea [Cantonese] ― fong3 pe5 [Jyutping] ― to slack off
Derived terms
Adjective
pea (Cantonese)
- slack; without effort
Related terms
Estonian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *pää, from Proto-Uralic *päŋe. Cognate with Finnish pää and Hungarian fej.
Pronunciation
Noun
pea (genitive pea, partitive pead)
- head
Declension
Derived terms
Adverb
pea (not comparable)
- almost
- 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): /ˈpe.a/, [ˈpɛ.jə]
Noun
pea
- bear
Derived terms
- pea ʻālika (“polar bear”)
- pea pāʻani (“teddy bear”)
- pea Kina (“panda bear”)
Japanese
Romanization
pea
- Rōmaji transcription of ペア
Maori
Etymology
From English bear.
Noun
pea
- bear
Niuean
Etymology
From English bear.
Noun
pea
- bear
Old English
Noun
pēa m
- alternative form of pāwa
Rarotongan
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English bear.
Noun
pea
- bear
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English pear.
Noun
pea
- pear
Etymology 3
Borrowed from English pair.
Noun
pea
- pair
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpea/ [ˈpe.a]
- Rhymes: -ea
- Syllabification: pe‧a
Etymology 1
Deverbal from peer.
Noun
pea f (plural peas)
- (colloquial) drunkenness
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
pea
- inflection of peer:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “pea”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
Swahili
Pronunciation
Verb
-pea (infinitive kupea)
- 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
- 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
- Indicates a continuous action; keep on, continuously
- Indicates that the action was performed in spite of what preceded; nevertheless, still
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English pair.
Noun
pea
- pair
- A woman's costume worn over a long skirt.
Verb
pea
- (stative) to be alike
Etymology 3
Borrowed from English pear.
Noun
pea
- pear
- pear tree
Etymology 4
Borrowed from English bear. Cognates include Hawaiian pea, Maori pea, Tahitian pea and Wallisian pea.
Noun
pea
- 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
- bear
Walloon
Etymology
Inherited from Old French pel, from Latin pellis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to cover, wrap; skin, hide, cloth”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pea f (plural peas)
- (anatomy) skin
- hide, fur
West Makian
Pronunciation
Noun
pea
- alternative form of pia (“rice”)
References
- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[2], Pacific linguistics
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