pea

• IPA^(key): /piː/

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• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophones: P, pee

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).

• pease (archaic)

pea (plural peas)

1. A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), OCLC 630079698, page 277:

     Below, long rows of peas put forth their white-winged flowers, tempting the small butterflies to flutter round their inanimate likenesses;...

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.

   Man's making bare peas.

See usage notes at bean regarding the differences in terminology.

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

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

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.

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.

pea (plural peas)

1. (rare, archaic) a peafowl

pea (plural peas)

1. (nautical) Alternative form of peak

• pea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• EAP, EPA, PAE, Pae, ape

pea

1. absolutive singular of pe

pea (Cantonese)

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   放pea [Cantonese]  ―  fong³ pe⁵ [Jyutping]  ―  to slack off

pea (Cantonese)

1. slack; without effort

• hea

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

pea (genitive pea, partitive pead)

1. head

pea

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.

From English bear.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe.a/, [ˈpɛjə]

pea

1. bear

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

pea

1. Rōmaji transcription of ペア

From English bear.

pea

1. bear

Borrowed from English bear.

pea

1. bear

Borrowed from English pear.

pea

1. pear

Borrowed from English pair.

pea

1. pair

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

From peer.

pea f (plural peas)

1. (colloquial) drunkenness

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pea

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

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

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-pea (infinitive kupea)

1. Applicative form of -pa: to give to