pea
English
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Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]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).
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]pea (plural peas or (archaic) pease)
- 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;...
- Any plant of the family Fabaceae.
- (cooking) The edible seed of Pisum sativum; the green pea.
- (cooking) The edible seed of various other pea plants.
- (Jamaica) Any of several varieties of bean.
- (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
[edit]See usage notes at bean regarding the differences in terminology.
Derived terms
[edit]- asparagus pea
- beach pea
- black-eyed pea
- bonavist pea
- breadroot scurf pea
- butterfly pea
- Carlin pea
- chickling pea
- chick pea
- chick-pea
- Congo pea
- crowder pea
- crown pea
- Darling pea
- desert pea
- earth pea
- Egyptian pea
- field pea
- garden pea
- glory pea
- golden pea
- goober pea
- grass-pea
- grass pea
- green pea galaxy
- ground pea
- gungo pea
- hairy Darling pea
- heath pea
- issue pea
- like two peas in a pod
- milk pea
- orris pea
- partridge pea
- pea aphid
- pea bean
- pea-brain
- pea brain
- pea-brained
- pea butter
- pea cake
- pea-cake
- pea clam
- pea coat
- pea-coated
- pea comb, pea-combed
- pea crab
- pea eggplant
- pea galaxy
- pea gravel
- pea green
- pea jacket
- pea-jacketed
- pea-knuckle
- pea-knuckle war
- pea-maggot
- pea ore
- pea patch
- pea pod, peapod
- pea shingle
- pea-shooter
- peashooter
- pea-sized
- peason
- pea soup
- pea-souper
- pea-time
- pea whistle
- pigeon pea
- red pea
- rosary pea
- scurfy pea
- sea pea
- sensitive pea
- Siberian pea tree
- Siberian pea-tree
- snap pea
- snow pea
- split pea
- string pea
- Sturt's desert pea
- sugar pea
- sugar snap pea
- sweet pea
- Tangier pea
- tear up the pea patch
- wedge pea
- yellow pea
Descendants
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Etymology 2
[edit]From having the appearance of a pea (see English etymology 1), the edible seed of Pisum sativum, the pea plant.
Noun
[edit]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
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Etymology 3
[edit]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
[edit]pea (plural peas)
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 4
[edit]Noun
[edit]pea (plural peas)
Further reading
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[edit]Basque
[edit]Noun
[edit]pea
- absolutive singular of pe
Chinese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: pe5
- Yale: péh
- Cantonese Pinyin: pe5
- Guangdong Romanization: pé5
- Sinological IPA (key): /pʰɛː¹³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Noun
[edit]pea (Cantonese)
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Derived terms
[edit]Adjective
[edit]pea (Cantonese)
Related terms
[edit]Estonian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *pää, from Proto-Uralic *päŋe. Cognate with Finnish pää and Hungarian fej.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pea (genitive pea, partitive pead)
Declension
[edit]Declension of pea (ÕS type 26i/idee, no gradation) | |||
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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 |
Derived terms
[edit]Adverb
[edit]pea (not comparable)
- almost
- Pea iga kord seisab ta seal kohas.
- He stands there almost every time.
- 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
[edit]- “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
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pea
Derived terms
[edit]- pea ʻālika (“polar bear”)
- pea pāʻani (“teddy bear”)
- pea Kina (“panda bear”)
Japanese
[edit]Romanization
[edit]pea
Maori
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]pea
Niuean
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Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]pea
Old English
[edit]Noun
[edit]pēa m
- Alternative form of pāwa
Rarotongan
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]pea
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]pea
Etymology 3
[edit]Noun
[edit]pea
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]pea f (plural peas)
- (colloquial) drunkenness
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]pea
- inflection of peer:
Further reading
[edit]- “pea”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swahili
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]-pea (infinitive kupea)
- Applicative form of -pa: to give to
Conjugation
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Tahitian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English bear. Cognates include Hawaiian pea, Maori pea, Tokelauan pea and Wallisian pea.
Noun
[edit]pea
Tokelauan
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Proto-Polynesian *pea. Cognates include Tongan pea and Samoan pea.
Particle
[edit]pea
- Indicates a continuous action; keep on, continuously
- Indicates that the action was performed in spite of what preceded; nevertheless, still
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]pea
Verb
[edit]pea
Etymology 3
[edit]Noun
[edit]pea
Etymology 4
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Borrowed from English bear. Cognates include Hawaiian pea, Maori pea, Tahitian pea and Wallisian pea.
Noun
[edit]pea
References
[edit]- R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary[1], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 265
Wallisian
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English bear. Cognates include Hawaiian pea, Maori pea, Tahitian pea and Tokelauan pea.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pea
Walloon
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pea ? (plural peas)
West Makian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pea
- Alternative form of pia (“rice”)
References
[edit]- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[2], Pacific linguistics
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