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See also: Appendix:Variations of "pea"

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Peranakan Indonesian or Malay peranakan.

Symbol

pea

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Peranakan Indonesian.

See also

English

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Pronunciation

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)

  2. 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
    1. (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
  4. (cooking) The edible seed of Pisum sativum.
    Hyponyms: snap pea, snow pea, sugar pea, sugar snap pea
  6. (cooking) The edible seed of various other pea plants.
    Hyponyms: field pea, cowpea, black-eyed pea
  8. Any of several varieties of bean.
    peas and rice
    Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata is what most people call black-eyed peas but some people call black-eyed beans.
  10. (MLE, in the plural) Money.
    Man's making bare peas.
    • 2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane, spoken by Nathan (Simon Manyonda):
      Oh, come on. Help a brother out. People see you coppin', might inspire them. Look, I know you ain't payin' bills right now. Man must have bare peas saved up.
Usage notes

See usage notes at bean regarding the differences in terminology.

Derived terms
Terms derived from pea (noun)
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

Anagrams

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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

  • 拚pea
  • 放pea

Adjective

pea (Cantonese)

  1. slack; without effort
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Estonian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

pea (genitive pea, partitive pead)

  1. head

Declension

More information Declension of (ÕS type 26i/idee, no gradation), singular ...

Derived terms

Adverb

pea (not comparable)

  1. almost
    Pea iga kord seisab ta seal kohas.
    He stands there almost every time.
  2. soon, immediately, quickly (in modern use almost always together with some other word or affix, such as kohe, õige, nii, -gi)
    Kohe pea oleme kohal.
    Soon we'll be there.
    Rändurid uinusid pea.
    The travelers fell asleep quickly.

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)
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Hawaiian

Etymology

From English bear.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpe.a/, [ˈpɛ.jə]
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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

Old English

Noun

pēa m

  1. alternative form of pāwa

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

Swahili

Pronunciation

Verb

-pea (infinitive kupea)

  1. Applicative form of -pa: to give to

Conjugation

More information Conjugation of, Positive present ...

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

Thumb
Te pea (3.1).
Thumb
Te pea (3.2).

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, 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

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)

  1. (anatomy) skin
  2. hide, fur

West Makian

Pronunciation

Noun

pea

  1. alternative form of pia (“rice”)

References

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

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