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], chapter XXVI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, 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.

   • 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.

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 (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.

From English bear.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpea/, [ˈpɛə]

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

Deverbal 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

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

pea

1. bear

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

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

pea

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

Borrowed from English pair.

pea

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

pea

1. (stative) to be alike

Te pea (3.1).

Te pea (3.2).

Borrowed from English pear.

pea

1. pear
2. pear tree

Te pea (4.1).

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

pea

1. bear

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

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

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

pea

1. bear

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

• IPA^(key): /pja/, /pɛː/

pea ? (plural peas)

1. (anatomy) skin

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe.a/

pea

1. Alternative form of pia (“rice”)

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