pe

• pei, pey

• IPA^(key): /peɪ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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  • Rhymes: -eɪ

From Hebrew פֵּא (pê), from Proto-Semitic *pay- (“mouth”). Doublet of pi.

pe

1. The seventeenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew פ, Syriac ܦ, and others; Arabic has the analog faa).

• Appendix:Hebrew alphabet

• Pe (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

pe (plural pes)

1. The name of the Cyrillic script letter П / п.

• E&P, EP, ep., ep

pe

1. pig

• IPA^(key): [pe̞]

• (apocopic suffixing form) -p

pe (Kana spelling ペ)

1. (only in compounds) thing, article

   arawan ― seven

   arawanpe ― seven things

   wen ― bad

   wenpe ― bad thing

• pehe

pe (Kana spelling ペ)

1. water, especially in reference to a water body
2. liquid
3. juice

• pet (“river”)

• wakka (“drinkable water”)

• pê

• IPA^(key): [pe]

• From Proto-Albanian *petja, from Proto-Indo-European *petino-, from *pet- (“to spread out, to extend”) (compare English fathom). Alternatively from Latin pannus (“cloth, rag, garment”); cf. Greek πανί (paní).^[1]
• From Proto-Albanian *pena-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)penh₁- (“to draw”).^[2]

pe m (plural penj, definite peri, definite plural penjtë)

1. thread

• pejzë

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

pe

1. dialectal form of prej

From Sãotomense pe (“father”), from Portuguese pai (“father”).

pe

1. father

• John H. McWhorter (2005), Defining Creole (in Annobonese)

pe

1. (Litovska) enclitic reflexive of tu, jou, joj, tumē, and jonē

• IPA^(key): /pe/, [pe̞]

pe inan

1. The name of the Latin script letter P/p.

• (Latin-script letter names) a, be, ze, de, e, efe, ge, hatxe, i, jota, ka, ele, eme, ene, eñe, o, pe, ku, erre, ese, te, u, uve, uve bikoitz, ixa, i greko, zeta

pe

1. or

pe (interrogative adjective)

1. which, what

• Rhymes: -e

pe f (plural pes)

1. The name of the Latin script letter P/p.
2. the Hebrew letter פ (final form ף)

pe

1. three

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe/
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: pe

From Old Galician-Portuguese pee, from Latin pedem.

pe m (plural pes)

1. foot

From Old Galician-Portuguese pez, from Latin picem.

pe f (uncountable)

1. pitch, tar

Probably borrowed from Spanish pez.

• peci (Lagarteiru, Mañegu)

pe m (plural pecis)

1. (Valverdeñu) fish

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[2], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN, page 219

pe n (genitive singular pes, plural pe)

1. The name of the Latin script letter P/p.

• (Latin-script letter names) bókstavur; a / fyrra a, á, be, de, edd, e, eff, ge, há, i / fyrra i, í / fyrra í, jodd, ká, ell, emm, enn, o, ó, pe, err, ess, te, u, ú, ve, seinna i, seinna í, seinna a, ø

Abbreviation of perjantai.

As perjantai.

pe

1. abbreviation of perjantai (“Friday”)

From Biblical Hebrew פֵּא (pê).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe(ː)/, [ˈpe̞(ː)]
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification^(key): pe
• Hyphenation^(key): pe

pe

1. pe (seventeenth letter of the Hebrew and Phoenician scripts and the Northwest Semitic abjad)

• pê (reintegrationist)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe/ [ˈpe]
• Rhymes: -e

pe m (plural pes)

1. The name of the Latin script letter P/p.

• (Latin-script letter names) letra; a, be, ce, de, e, efe, gue, hache, i, ele, eme, ene, eñe, o, pe, que, erre, ese, te, u, uve, xe, ceta / zeta

• “pe”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

From Portuguese pé.

pe

1. foot

From Portuguese perna.

pe

1. leg

From Portuguese pau.

pe

1. tree

From p +‎ -e.

• IPA^(key): /pe/, /pɛ/

pe (plural pe-i)

1. The name of the Latin script letter P/p.

• Latin script letter names: literi: a · be · ce · che · de · e · fe · ge · he · i · je · ke · le · me · ne · o · pe · que · re · se · she · te · u · ve · we · xe · ye · ze ^[edit]

pe

1. The hiragana syllable ぺ (pe) or the katakana syllable ペ (pe) in Hepburn romanization.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paʀih, from Proto-Austronesian *paʀiS.

pé (Javanese script ꦥꦺ)

1. ray (marine fish with a flat body, large wing-like fins, and a whip-like tail)

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*paRiS”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Derived from Etruscan. Etruscan names of stops were the stop followed by /eː/.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpeː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɛː]

pē f (indeclinable)

1. The name of the Latin script letter P/p.

• (Latin-script letter names) littera; ā, bē, cē, dē, ē, ef, gē, hā / *acca, ī, kā, el, em, en, ō, pē, kū, er, es, tē, ū, ix / īx / ex, ȳ / ī graeca / ȳpsīlon, zēta

• “pe”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pe”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Arthur E. Gordon, The Letter Names of the Latin Alphabet (University of California Press, 1973; volume 9 of University of California Publications: Classical Studies), part III: “Summary of the Ancient Evidence”, page 32: "Clearly there is no question or doubt about the names of the vowels A, E, I, O, U. They are simply long A, long E, etc. (ā, ē, ī, ō, ū). Nor is there any uncertainty with respect to the six mutes B, C, D, G, P, T. Their names are bē, cē, dē, gē, pē, tē (each with a long E). Or about H, K, and Q: they are hā, kā, kū—each, again, with a long vowel sound."

From Latin per, from Proto-Indo-European *peri, derived from the root *per- (“to go over”).

• IPA^(key): /pe/

pe

1. for
2. to
3. through
4. in or on
5. by
6. with
7. as

pe + article	Combined form
pe + o	pe-o
pe + a	pe-a
pe + i	pe-i
pe + e	pe-e

pe

1. and

• Greg Pearson, René van den Berg, Lote Grammar Sketch (2008)

pe

1. Used to indicate possession, similar to English 's.

   Kita pe mama ― My mother

   Ngana pe pingsil ― Your pencil

   Adam pe oto ― Adam's car

pe

1. nonstandard spelling of pē
2. nonstandard spelling of pê̄

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Contraction of ape, from French après. Compare Haitian Creole ap.

• IPA^(key): /pe/

pe (medial form pe)

1. (auxiliary) Used to indicate present progressive tense or the continuous tense in general.

• ti pe

pe

1. liver

• Claire Bowern, Harold James Koch, Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method (2004), page 411

pe

1. to, for (indicates a dative object)
2. indicates a causative object

   Ajapo uka mbojape xevy pe ha'i pe.

   I had my mother make me bread.

pe

1. biznaga, barrel cactus.

pe

1. alternative form of po

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *pia, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *Pi(k).

pe (stem II pêk)

1. to give

• Lorrain, J. Herbert (1940), “pe”, in Dictionary of the Lushai language, Calcutta: Asiatic Society

From Latin per.

• IPA^(key): /pe/
• (Naples) IPA^(key): /pə/

pe

1. for

From Old Tupi pe.

• IPA^(key): (unstressed) /pe/

• Rhymes: -e
• Hyphenation: pe

pe

1. (second-class) second-person plural personal pronoun (you, your)

   Pe akanhemu peikú nhaãsé pe kirá peikú.

   You are scared because you are fat.

   Aintá uputari upitá pe irũmu.

   They want to stay with you.

   Pe manha uwiké uka pisasú upé.

   Your mother enters the new house.

   • 2021, Marcel Twardowsky Ávila, Proposta de dicionário nheengatu–português, page 588:

     Te pe resarái masuí peyuri!

     Do not forget where you came from!

• As a second-class pronoun, pe is used as the subject of a sentence when its verb is a second-class one (those verbs are sometimes referred to as adjectives). The personal pronoun pe is also used when governed by any postposition with the exception of arama and supé. Finally, pe is used as a possessive pronoun as well.

Nheengatu personal pronouns

singular	first-class pronoun	second-class pronoun
first-person	ixé	se
second-person	indé	ne
third-person	aé	i
plural	first-class pronoun	second-class pronoun
first-person	yandé	yané
second-person	penhẽ	pe
third-person	aintá (or tá)	aintá (or tá)

• AVILA, Marcel Twardowsky (2021) Proposta de dicionário nheengatu–português, page 588
• NAVARRO, Eduardo de Almeida (2016) Curso de língua geral (nheengatu ou tupi moderno): a língua das origens da civilização amazônica, 2nd edition, →ISBN, pages 11 and 107

pe f (plural pes)

1. pee (the letter p, P)

From Latin pedem, accusative of pes. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French pié.

pe m (oblique plural pes, nominative singular pes, nominative plural pe)

1. foot (anatomy)

• Occitan: pè

• IPA^(key): /pɛ/
• Rhymes: -ɛ

pe (2nd class, 2nd person plural, dative peẽme / peẽmo, 1st class equivalent peẽ)

1. (with 2nd or 3rd person object) you

   Coordinate term: (with 1st person object) peîepé

2. (with 2nd or 3rd person subject) objective of peẽ

   Coordinate term: (with 1st person subject) opo-

3. your

• Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “pe”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil ] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 375

Pacoh cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : pe     Ordinal : ape

From Proto-Katuic *pɛɛ, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *piʔ.

• IPA^(key): [pɛː]

pe

1. three

pe

1. abbreviation of peyyāla

• Rhymes: -e

pe

1. that (near addressee)

• Canese, Natalia Krivoshein de; Alcaraz, Feliciano Acosta (2016), “pe”, in Ñe’ẽryru [Dictionary] (overall work in Spanish), Asunción: Instituto Superior de Lenguas, →ISBN, page 85, column 1

Phonetic spelling of the letter.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Syllabification: pe

pe n (indeclinable)

1. The name of the Latin script letter P/p.

• pe in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• пе (pe) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling
• pă — Muntenia, informal
• pi — Moldavia (region)
• pre — archaic
• p — Internet slang, text messaging

From earlier pre, from Latin per, with meaning influenced by super. /r/ regularly metathesized after /pe/ and /te/ during Proto-Romanian, as seen in words like frate, but it was later dropped in rapid speech due to plosive-liquid cluster simplification prevalent in colloquial Romanian. That might also be why frate, likely having been inherited from the accusative fratrem, doesn't feature a /r/ in the second cluster while the first cluster does, although it might also be due to dissimilation from the preceding /r/.

• IPA^(key): /pe/, /pe̞/
• (colloquial, chiefly Muntenia, Oltenia and Maramureș) IPA^(key): /pə/
• (chiefly Moldova (both region and country)) IPA^(key): /pi/
• (chiefly Moldova (country)) IPA^(key): /pɪ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -e

pe [with accusative]

1. on

   cartea este pe masă

   The book is on the table.

2. on (some time during the day of)

   A plecat spre Europa acum o săptămână, mai exact, pe zece mai.

   He left for Europe a week ago, that is, on the tenth of May.

3. (accusative preposition) used to indicate direct object in some cases

   O aștept pe mama.

   I'm waiting on/for mom.

4. through an opening

   a îi ieși (cuiva) pe gură

   (of words) to come out (one’s) mouth

   a sări pe geam/fereastră ― to jump out the window

5. (with spatial prepositions or adverbs) approximately, thereabouts

   L-am văzut prima oară pe undeva pe aici.

   I first saw it somewhere around here.

   Hotelul e pe lângă gară.

   The hotel is somewhere near the station.

Pe takes the accusative case of nouns and is used as the marker for the direct object when said object is:

• a proper noun; the name of a person or animal
• a common noun referring to a specific person, generally known to both the speaker and listener
• a common noun acting as a metaphor for a person
• a common noun in a construction in which the subject and the direct object are the same noun and they precede the predicate

Pe is not used when the direct object is:

• a common noun designating inanimate objects or animals
• a common noun referring to an unspecified person

• da jos
• pe jos
• peste
• pentru
• pre-

• “pe”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

• pei (Sursilvan)
• pè (Puter, Vallader)

From Latin pēs, pedem (“foot”), from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds.

pe m (plural pes or peis)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, anatomy) foot

In Rumantsch Grischun and Sutsilvan, the plural is pes. In Surmiran, however, it is peis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe/ [ˈpe]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: pe

pe f (plural pes)

1. The name of the Latin script letter P/p.

• “pe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

pe

1. (interrogative) where
2. (relative) where

• alape
• drape, dape
• nowanpe

Borrowed from Spanish pe, the Spanish name of the letter P / p.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpe/ [ˈpɛ]
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: pe

pe (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒ)

1. (historical) the name of the Latin script letter P/p, in the Abecedario

   Synonyms: (in the Filipino alphabet) pi, (in the Abakada alphabet) pa

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds. Compare the nominative/accusative dual form, peṃ, presumably from Proto-Tocharian *peine du (whence also Tocharian B paine), from an earlier *pei, from the Proto-Indo-European *pódh₁e du, from *pṓds. It is from this dual form in Proto-Tocharian that the singular forms have probably been analogically built. Compare Tocharian B paiyye.^[1]

pe m

1. foot

• peṃ

• IPA^(key): /pe/

pe

1. stone, rock

• Dennis, Ronald K.; Dennis, Margaret Royce de (1983), Diccionario Tol (Jicaque)-Español y Español-Tol (Jicaque)‎^[3] (in Spanish), Tegucigalpa: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 28

pe (definite accusative peyi, plural peler)

1. The name of the Latin script letter P/p.

• (Latin-script letter names) harf; a, be, ce, çe, de, e, fe, ge, yumuşak ge, he, ı, i, je, ke, le, me, ne, o, ö, pe, re, se, şe, te, u, ü, ve, ye, ze

pe (definite accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin script letter P/p.

From earlier bei (now bai), third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of bod.^[1]

The alternative form ped (whence counterfactual forms of bod such as petaswn and taswn) is perhaps from addition of the affirmative particle yd (compare nad and nid).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /peː/, /pɛ/

pe

1. if (used with counterfactual conditionals, i.e., those that are impossible or considered very unlikely)

   Pe bawn i'n gyfoethog, teithiwn i o gwmpas y byd.

   If I were rich, I would travel around the world.

In the literary language, bod (“to be”) has special counterfactual forms that undergo univerbation with pe: petaswn (“if I had been”), petawn (“if I were”) etc. (see the conjugation table for all the forms).

In the colloquial language, the counterfactual forms taswn/bawn/tawn are written separately from pe, and pe can be omitted before them:

• (pe) taswn i’n ennill y loteri ― if I were to win the lottery

• os (used with factual conditionals)

• IPA^(key): /pe/

pe

1. with, using

   natala pe peda da langalongi ne ― (you) cut this rope with a machete

   yakor te pe sosodik ― stir the tea with a spoon

2. (directional) to

   iwako pe de mai ― he threw a stone at me (literally, “he threw to me (a) stone”)

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[4], Pacific linguistics

• پعِ

• IPA^(key): /k͡pè/

pè

1. (transitive, intransitive) to call, to pronounce, to summon, to invoke (an orisha)

   Synonym: ké

2. (transitive) to tag someone or something

• IPA^(key): /k͡pé/

pé

1. (transitive, intransitive) to assemble, to congregate

• péjọ (“to congregate”)
• ìpé (“public gathering”)
• péjú pésẹ̀ (“to gather; to assemble”)

• IPA^(key): /k͡pé/

pé

1. to be correct, to be complete in degree or quantity
2. to be enough
3. (idiomatic) to be sane, to be intelligent, to be sharp (of the mind); (literally - "to have a complete or correct mind")

• orí-pípé (“sanity”)
• pépérépéré

• IPA^(key): /k͡pé/

pé

1. to say something

   Synonym: ní

• An overlaid function for the conjunction pé (Etymology 5) whenever a verb of utterance is missing, it is always followed by kí.

• IPA^(key): /k͡pé/

pé

1. that

• In modern linguistics, the term has also been categorized as a complementizer

Yoruba varieties and languages: pé (“that, conj.”)
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Language family	Variety group	Variety/language	Subdialect	Location	Words
Proto-Itsekiri-SEY	Southeast Yoruba	Ìjẹ̀bú	Ìjẹ̀bú	Ìjẹ̀bú Òde	fọ
			Rẹ́mọ	Ẹ̀pẹ́	fọ
				Ìkòròdú	fọ
				Ṣágámù	fọ
		Ìkálẹ̀ (Ùkálẹ̀)		Òkìtìpupa	fi
		Ìlàjẹ (Ùlàjẹ)		Mahin	pé
	Ìtsẹkírì			Ìwẹrẹ	gín
Proto-Yoruba	Central Yoruba	Èkìtì	Èkìtì	Àdó Èkìtì	fọ̀
			Àkúrẹ́	Àkúrẹ́	fọ̀
			Mọ̀bà	Ọ̀tùn Èkìtì	wí, ti
	Northwest Yoruba	Àwórì		Èbúté Mẹ́tà	pé
		Èkó		Èkó	pé
		Ìbàdàn		Ìbàdàn	pé
		Ìbàràpá		Igbó Òrà	pé
		Ìbọ̀lọ́		Òṣogbo (Òsogbo)	pé
		Ìlọrin		Ìlọrin	pé
		Oǹkó		Òtù	pé
				Ìwéré Ilé	pé
				Òkèhò	pé
				Ìsẹ́yìn	pé
				Ṣakí	pé
				Tedé	pé
				Ìgbẹ́tì	pé
		Ọ̀yọ́		Ọ̀yọ́	pé
		Standard Yorùbá		Nàìjíríà	pé
				Bɛ̀nɛ̀	pé
	Northeast Yoruba/Okun	Owé		Kabba	hi
	Ede languages/Southwest Yoruba	Ifɛ̀		Akpáré	ní
				Atakpamɛ	ní
				Tchetti (Tsɛti, Cɛti)	ní
Note: This amalgamation of terms comes from a number of different academic papers focused on the unique varieties and languages spoken in the Yoruboid dialectal continuum which extends from eastern Togo to southern Nigeria. The terms for spoken varieties, now deemed dialects of Yorùbá in Nigeria (i.e. Southeast Yorùbá, Northwest Yorùbá, Central Yorùbá, and Northeast Yorùbá), have converged with those of Standard Yorùbá leading to the creation of what can be labeled Common Yorùbá (Funṣọ Akere, 1977). It can be assumed that the Standard Yorùbá term can also be used in most Nigerian varieties alongside native terms, especially amongst younger speakers. This does not apply to the other Nigerian Yoruboid languages of Ìṣẹkírì and Olùkùmi, nor the Èdè Languages of Benin and Togo.

• kí

• IPA^(key): /k͡pé/

pé

1. to become rewarding or profitable for someone

   ọjà náà pé mi dáadáa ― The market goods were very profitable for me

• IPA^(key): /pe˧/

pe

1. (intransitive) to kick

• Chungkham Yashawanta Singh; Lukram Himmat (2013), A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 40