pea

Abbreviation of English Peranakan Indonesian or Malay peranakan.

pea

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Peranakan Indonesian terms

• IPA^(key): /piː/

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• Homophones: P, pee
• Rhymes: -iː

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).

• pease (archaic)

pea (plural peas or (archaic) pease)

2. 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

   2. (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

      • 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;...

4. (cooking) The edible seed of Pisum sativum.

   Hyponyms: snap pea, snow pea, sugar pea, sugar snap pea

6. (cooking) The edible seed of various other pea plants.

   Hyponyms: field pea, cowpea, black-eyed pea

8. Any of several varieties of bean.

   peas and rice

   Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata is what most people call black-eyed peas but some people call black-eyed beans.

10. (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

• APE, Pae, ape, EAP, PAE, EPA

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

Declension of pea (ÕS type 26i/idee, no gradation)
		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

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.

• “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)

From English bear.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe.a/, [ˈpɛ.jə]

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpea/ [ˈpɛɐ]

pea

1. bear

From English bear.

pea

1. bear

• IPA^(key): /pæ͜ɑː/
• Rhymes: -ēa

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

• 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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

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-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

• 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

Borrowed from English pear.

pea

1. pear
2. pear tree

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

pea

1. bear

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[1], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 265

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

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

pea

1. bear

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

• IPA^(key): /pja/, /pɛː/

pea f (plural peas)

1. (anatomy) skin
2. hide, fur

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe.a/

pea

1. alternative form of pia (“rice”)

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[2], Pacific linguistics