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Translingual

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Etymology

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Abbreviation of English Peranakan Indonesian or Malay peranakan.

Symbol

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pea

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

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English

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A pea plant, Pisum sativum (1).
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Pea seeds in a pod (2).

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Etymology 1

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Etymology tree
Ancient Greek πίσον (píson)bor.
Latin pisum
Late Latin pisader.
Old English pise
Middle English pese
English peasebf.
English pea

    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).

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    Noun

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    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
      2. (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
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    See usage notes at bean regarding the differences in terminology.

    Derived terms
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    Terms derived from pea (noun)
    Descendants
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    • → Abenaki: piz (“a pea”)
    • → Mohegan-Pequot: pish (“a pea”)
    • → Yurok: pi·š, peeesh (“a pea”)
    Translations
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    Etymology 2

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

    Noun

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    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.
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    Etymology 3

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      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

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      pea (plural peas)

      1. (rare, archaic) a peafowl
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      Etymology 4

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      Noun

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      pea (plural peas)

      1. (nautical) Alternative form of peak.

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      Anagrams

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      Basque

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      Noun

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      pea

      1. absolutive singular of pe

      Chinese

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      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

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      Adjective

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      pea (Cantonese)

      1. slack; without effort
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      Estonian

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      Etymology

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

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      Noun

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      pea (genitive pea, partitive pead)

      1. head

      Declension

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      Declension of pea (ÕS type 26i/idee, no gradation)
      singular plural
      nominative pea pead
      accusative nom.
      gen. pea
      genitive peade
      partitive pead päid
      peasid
      illative peasse peadesse
      päisse
      inessive peas peades
      päis
      elative peast peadest
      päist
      allative peale peadele
      päile
      adessive peal peadel
      päil
      ablative pealt peadelt
      päilt
      translative peaks peadeks
      päiks
      terminative peani peadeni
      essive peana peadena
      abessive peata peadeta
      comitative peaga peadega

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      Adverb

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      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

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      • “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

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      Etymology

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      From English bear.

      Pronunciation

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      • IPA(key): /ˈpe.a/, [ˈpɛ.jə]
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      Noun

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      pea

      1. bear

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      Japanese

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      Romanization

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      pea

      1. Rōmaji transcription of ペア

      Māori

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      Etymology

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      From English bear.

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      Noun

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      pea

      1. bear

      Niuean

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      Etymology

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      From English bear.

      Noun

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      pea

      1. bear

      Old English

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      Pronunciation

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      Noun

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      pēa m

      1. alternative form of pāwa

      Rarotongan

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      Etymology 1

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      Borrowed from English bear.

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      pea

      1. bear

      Etymology 2

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      Borrowed from English pear.

      Noun

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      pea

      1. pear

      Etymology 3

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      Borrowed from English pair.

      Noun

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      pea

      1. pair

      Spanish

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      Pronunciation

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

      Etymology 1

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      Deverbal from peer.

      Noun

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      pea f (plural peas)

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

      Etymology 2

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      See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

      Verb

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      pea

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

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      Swahili

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      Pronunciation

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      Verb

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      -pea (infinitive kupea)

      1. Applicative form of -pa: to give to

      Conjugation

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      Conjugation of -pea
      Positive present -napea
      Subjunctive -pee
      Negative -pei
      Imperative singular pea
      Infinitives
      Positive kupea
      Negative kutopea
      Imperatives
      Singular pea
      Plural peeni
      Tensed forms
      Habitual hupea
      Positive past positive subject concord + -lipea
      Negative past negative subject concord + -kupea
      Positive present (positive subject concord + -napea)
      Singular Plural
      1st person ninapea/napea tunapea
      2nd person unapea mnapea
      3rd person m-wa(I/II) anapea wanapea
      other classes positive subject concord + -napea
      Negative present (negative subject concord + -pei)
      Singular Plural
      1st person sipei hatupei
      2nd person hupei hampei
      3rd person m-wa(I/II) hapei hawapei
      other classes negative subject concord + -pei
      Positive future positive subject concord + -tapea
      Negative future negative subject concord + -tapea
      Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -pee)
      Singular Plural
      1st person nipee tupee
      2nd person upee mpee
      3rd person m-wa(I/II) apee wapee
      other classes positive subject concord + -pee
      Negative subjunctive positive subject concord + -sipee
      Positive present conditional positive subject concord + -ngepea
      Negative present conditional positive subject concord + -singepea
      Positive past conditional positive subject concord + -ngalipea
      Negative past conditional positive subject concord + -singalipea
      Gnomic (positive subject concord + -apea)
      Singular Plural
      1st person napea twapea
      2nd person wapea mwapea
      3rd person m-wa(I/II) apea wapea
      m-mi(III/IV) wapea yapea
      ji-ma(V/VI) lapea yapea
      ki-vi(VII/VIII) chapea vyapea
      n(IX/X) yapea zapea
      u(XI) wapea see n(X) or ma(VI) class
      ku(XV/XVII) kwapea
      pa(XVI) papea
      mu(XVIII) mwapea
      Perfect positive subject concord + -mepea
      "Already" positive subject concord + -meshapea
      "Not yet" negative subject concord + -japea
      "If/When" positive subject concord + -kipea
      "If not" positive subject concord + -sipopea
      Consecutive kapea / positive subject concord + -kapea
      Consecutive subjunctive positive subject concord + -kapee
      Object concord (indicative positive)
      Singular Plural
      1st person -nipea -tupea
      2nd person -kupea -wapea/-kupeeni/-wapeeni
      3rd person m-wa(I/II) -mpea -wapea
      m-mi(III/IV) -upea -ipea
      ji-ma(V/VI) -lipea -yapea
      ki-vi(VII/VIII) -kipea -vipea
      n(IX/X) -ipea -zipea
      u(XI) -upea see n(X) or ma(VI) class
      ku(XV/XVII) -kupea
      pa(XVI) -papea
      mu(XVIII) -mupea
      Reflexive -jipea
      Relative forms
      General positive (positive subject concord + (object concord) + -pea- + relative marker)
      Singular Plural
      m-wa(I/II) -peaye -peao
      m-mi(III/IV) -peao -peayo
      ji-ma(V/VI) -pealo -peayo
      ki-vi(VII/VIII) -peacho -peavyo
      n(IX/X) -peayo -peazo
      u(XI) -peao see n(X) or ma(VI) class
      ku(XV/XVII) -peako
      pa(XVI) -peapo
      mu(XVIII) -peamo
      Other forms (subject concord + tense marker + relative marker + (object concord) + -pea)
      Singular Plural
      m-wa(I/II) -yepea -opea
      m-mi(III/IV) -opea -yopea
      ji-ma(V/VI) -lopea -yopea
      ki-vi(VII/VIII) -chopea -vyopea
      n(IX/X) -yopea -zopea
      u(XI) -opea see n(X) or ma(VI) class
      ku(XV/XVII) -kopea
      pa(XVI) -popea
      mu(XVIII) -mopea
      Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.

      Tahitian

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

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      pea

      1. bear

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

      Etymology 1

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

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      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

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      Borrowed from English pair.

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      pea

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

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      pea

      1. (stative) to be alike

      Etymology 3

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

      Borrowed from English pear.

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      pea

      1. pear
      2. pear tree

      Etymology 4

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      Te pea (4.1).

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

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      pea

      1. bear

      References

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

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      Pea

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

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

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      pea

      1. bear

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      Etymology

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      Inherited from Old French pel, from Latin pellis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to cover, wrap; skin, hide, cloth”).

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      pea f (plural peas)

      1. (anatomy) skin
      2. hide, fur

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      pea

      1. alternative form of pia (“rice”)

      References

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