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Abbreviation of English Peranakan Indonesian or Malay peranakan.

pea

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

A pea plant, Pisum sativum (1).

Pea seeds in a pod (2).

Middle English pese

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).

pea (plural peas or (archaic) pease)

  1. 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
    1. (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
  2. (cooking) The edible seed of Pisum sativum.
    Hyponyms: snap pea, snow pea, sugar pea, sugar snap pea
  3. (cooking) The edible seed of various other pea plants.
    Hyponyms: field pea, cowpea, black-eyed pea
  4. Any of several varieties of bean.
    peas and rice
  5. (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.

plant

edible seed

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.

in baseball

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

  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

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

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pea (genitive **pea, partitive pead)

  1. head
Declension of pea (ÕS type 26i/idee, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative pea pead
accusative nom.
gen. pea
genitive peade
partitive pead päidpeasid
illative peasse peadessepäisse
inessive peas peadespäis
elative peast peadestpäist
allative peale peadelepäile
adessive peal peadelpäil
ablative pealt peadeltpäilt
translative peaks peadekspäiks
terminative peani peadeni
essive peana peadena
abessive peata peadeta
comitative peaga peadega

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.

pea

  1. bear

pea

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ペア

From English bear.

pea

  1. bear

From English bear.

pea

  1. bear

pēa m

  1. alternative form of pāwa

Borrowed from English bear.

pea

  1. bear

Borrowed from English pear.

pea

  1. pear

Borrowed from English pair.

pea

  1. pair

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 (infinitive kupea)

  1. Applicative form of -pa: to give to
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.

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

pea

  1. bear

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, Māori pea, Tahitian pea and Wallisian pea.

pea

  1. bear

Pea

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

pea

  1. bear

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

pea f (plural peas)

  1. (anatomy) skin
  2. hide, fur

pea

  1. alternative form of pia (“rice”)