pea
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
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
Noun
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
See usage notes at bean regarding the differences in terminology.
Derived terms
- 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
Translations
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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)
- (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
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)
Derived terms
Etymology 4
Noun
pea (plural peas)
Further reading
Anagrams
Basque
Noun
pea
- absolutive singular of pe
Chinese
Pronunciation
- 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
pea (Cantonese)
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Derived terms
Adjective
pea (Cantonese)
Related terms
Estonian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *pää, from Proto-Uralic *päŋe. Cognate with Finnish pää and Hungarian fej.
Pronunciation
Noun
pea (genitive pea, partitive pead)
Declension
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
Adverb
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
- “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
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
pea
Derived terms
- pea ʻālika (“polar bear”)
- pea pāʻani (“teddy bear”)
- pea Kina (“panda bear”)
Japanese
Romanization
pea
Maori
Etymology
Noun
pea
Niuean
Etymology
Noun
pea
Rarotongan
Etymology 1
Noun
pea
Etymology 2
Noun
pea
Etymology 3
Noun
pea
Spanish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
pea f (plural peas)
- (colloquial) drunkenness
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
pea
- inflection of peer:
Further reading
- “pea”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swahili
Pronunciation
Verb
-pea (infinitive kupea)
- Applicative form of -pa: to give to
Conjugation
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Tahitian
Etymology
Borrowed from English bear. Cognates include Hawaiian pea, Maori pea, Tokelauan pea and Wallisian pea.
Noun
pea
Tokelauan
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Polynesian *pea. Cognates include Tongan pea and Samoan pea.
Particle
pea
- Indicates a continuous action; keep on, continuously
- Indicates that the action was performed in spite of what preceded; nevertheless, still
Etymology 2
Noun
pea
Verb
pea
Etymology 3
Noun
pea
Etymology 4
Borrowed from English bear. Cognates include Hawaiian pea, Maori pea, Tahitian pea and Wallisian pea.
Noun
pea
References
- R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary[1], 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
Noun
pea
Walloon
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
Noun
pea ? (plural peas)
West Makian
Pronunciation
Noun
pea
- Alternative form of pia (“rice”)
References
- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[2], Pacific linguistics
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