pera

From Vulgar Latin *pira, from the plural of Latin pirum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɾa/ [ˈpe.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Syllabification: pe‧ra

pera f (plural peres)

1. pear

• “pera”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1ª edición, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, 2000, →ISBN
• Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “pera”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN

pera

1. allative singular of pe

Inherited from Old Catalan pera, from Vulgar Latin *pira, from the plural of Latin pirum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈpɛ.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈpə.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpe.ɾa]

• Audio (Valencia):

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• Rhymes: -ɛɾa
• Rhymes: -eɾa

pera f (plural peres)

1. pear (fruit)
2. goatee

   Synonym: masclet

• partir peres
• perer
• perera
• tocar la pera

• “pera”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “pera”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “pera” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pera” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Spanish pera.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɾa/, [ˈpe.ɾa]
• Hyphenation: pe‧ra

pera

1. pear (fruit)

pera f (plural pere)

1. pear

• peru (“pear tree”)

• “pera” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɛra]

pera

1. inflection of pero:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

pera

1. masculine singular present transgressive of prát

From Old Norse pera, probably from Old English pere, peru, from Latin pirum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰeːɹa/
• Rhymes: -eːɹa

pera f (genitive singular peru, plural perur)

1. pear (fruit)
2. light bulb

From Old Galician-Portuguese pera (13th century, Alfonso X), from Vulgar Latin *pira, from the plural of Latin pirum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpeɾɐ]

pera f (plural peras)

1. pear (fruit)
2. (slang) masturbation

• pereira (“pear tree”)
• leite de pera (“semen”)

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “pera”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pera”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pera”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pera”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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

From Old Norse pera, probably from Old English pere, peru, from Latin pirum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰɛːra/
• Rhymes: -ɛːra

pera f (genitive singular peru, nominative plural perur)

1. pear (fruit)
2. light bulb

From Latin petra, from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra).

pera f

1. stone

From Vulgar Latin *pira, from the plural of Latin pirum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ra/
• Rhymes: -era
• Hyphenation: pé‧ra

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pera f (plural pere)

1. pear (the fruit)
2. (slang) fix (dose of drug)

   farsi una pera

   to shoot up

• → Ottoman Turkish: پرو (pero)

• apre, arpe, pare, rape

From Ancient Greek πήρα (pḗra).

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

pēra f (genitive pērae); first declension

1. bag, satchel (slung over one shoulder)
2. wallet
3. scrip

First-declension noun.

• pērula

• hippopēra

• “pera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pera”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "pera", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “pera”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pera”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “pera”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

• aper, prae

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

pera f (plural peras)

1. pear

• “pera”, in Diccionario Castellano-Leonés / Leonés-Castellano [Spanish-Leonese / Leonese-Spanish Dictionary] (in Spanish), La Asociación L'Alderique, 2012–2026
• “pera”, in Pallabreiru Llïonés [Leonese Dictionary] (in Spanish), 2026

pera

1. silver

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pəʀəq, from Proto-Austronesian *pəʀəq.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpera]

pera (Lontara spelling ᨄᨙᨑ, semi-transitive ammera)

1. (transitive) to wring out

• IPA^(key): /ˈpera/ [ˈpɛɾɐ]

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

pera

1. blubber

Borrowed from English pillow.

pera

1. pillow

   Synonym: urunga

• uhwi pera (“pillowcase”)

• “pera” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

From Old Occitan pera, from Vulgar Latin *pira, from the plural of Latin pirum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpeɾo]

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pera f (plural peras)

1. pear

• perer / perièr

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ɾa/

From Latin per (“through”) + ad (“to”).

pera

1. for, towards
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 100 (facsimile):

     Santa maria / ſtrela do dia / moſtra nos uia / pera deus ⁊ nos guia.

     Holy Mary, / star of the daytime; / show us the way / towards God, and guide us.

• Galician: para, pra
• Portuguese: para, pra, pa (syncopated), p'ra (pre-standardization spelling, now nonstandard), p/ (abbreviation), pera (archaic)

From Vulgar Latin *pira, from the plural of Latin pirum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular. Doublet of pero.

pera f (plural peras)

1. pear

   maçãas e peras ― apples and pears

• Galician: pera
• Portuguese: pera

Unknown.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛ.ra/
• Rhymes: -ɛra
• Syllabification: pe‧ra

pera f (diminutive perka)

1. (Poznań) alternative form of pyra

• “Pyra”, in Słownik gwary miejskiej Poznania, (Can we date this quote?)

• pera in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese pera, from Vulgar Latin *pira, from the plural of Latin pirum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular.

• pêra (pre-1990 spelling)

• Rhymes: -eɾɐ
• Hyphenation: pe‧ra

pera f (plural peras)

1. pear
2. (colloquial) a knuckle sandwich
3. (Portugal) goatee

   Synonym: (Brazil) cavanhaque

• péra (pre-1990 spelling)

• Hyphenation: pe‧ra

pera f (plural peras)

1. archaic form of pedra

Fossilized in constructions such as perafita (formerly spelled péra-fita).

• Hyphenation: pe‧ra

pera

1. archaic form of para

Clipping of espera, imperative of esperar (“to wait”).

• Rhymes: -ɛɾɐ
• Hyphenation: pe‧ra

pera

1. (colloquial) just a minute

   Synonym: pera aí / peraí

2. (colloquial) wait (asking for stop to make an observation)

• “pera”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “pera”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “pera”, in Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2001–2026
• “pera”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
• “pera”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

pera (Cyrillic spelling пера)

1. inflection of pero:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/genitive/accusative/vocative plural

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

• IPA^(key): /pera/, [ˈpera]
• Rhymes: -era
• Hyphenation: pe‧ra

pera

1. genitive singular of pero

pera f

1. lip

• “pera”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

Inherited from Old Spanish pera, from Vulgar Latin *pira, from the plural of Latin pirum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɾa/ [ˈpe.ɾa]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Syllabification: pe‧ra

pera f (plural peras)

1. pear
2. (boxing) speed bag
3. (Rioplatense, Chile) chin

   Synonyms: barbilla, mentón

• → Jicarilla: béela

• “pera”, 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

• rape, rapé, pare, paré

Borrowed from Portuguese pera (“pear”).^[1]

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pera class V (plural mapera class VI)

1. guava

• mpera

Borrowed from Spanish perra (“cash; 5 and 10 centimo peseta coins”, literally “bitch / female dog”),^[1][2] feminine of perro (“dog”), due to the circulation of perra gorda (“ten centimo peseta coin”), perra chica (“five centimo peseta coin”). Such coins depicted a poorly drawn Spanish heraldic lion rampant regardant and people called the lion humorously a perra.

Potet (2016) also remarked that the word seems to be a cross between Malay perak and Spanish perra, wherein an interference could have occurred between the colloquial senses of Spanish perra (“cash; dough (money)”, literally “bitch (dog)”) and Malay perak (“coin”, literally “silver”). See also pilak.

Alternatively, possibly from Spanish pela (“one peseta coin”, literally “a hit or beating”), also with a similar lion design.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpeɾa/ [ˈpɛː.ɾɐ]
  • Rhymes: -eɾa
• (Bataan) IPA^(key): /ˈpiɾa/ [ˈpiː.ɾɐ]
  • Rhymes: -iɾa
• Syllabification: pe‧ra

pera (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜇ)

1. money; cash

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:salapi

2. (colloquial, dated) centavo

   Synonym: sentimo

• “pera”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025

• pare

From Proto-Finnic *perä, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *perä. Cognates include Finnish perä.

pera

1. stern (rear end of a ship)

Inflection of pera (inflection type 5/sana)
nominative sing.	pera
genitive sing.	peran
partitive sing.	perad
partitive plur.	peroid
	singular	plural
nominative	pera	perad
accusative	peran	perad
genitive	peran	peroiden
partitive	perad	peroid
essive-instructive	peran	peroin
translative	peraks	peroikš
inessive	peras	peroiš
elative	peraspäi	peroišpäi
illative	peraha	peroihe
adessive	peral	peroil
ablative	peralpäi	peroilpäi
allative	perale	peroile
abessive	perata	peroita
comitative	peranke	peroidenke
prolative	peradme	peroidme
approximative I	peranno	peroidenno
approximative II	perannoks	peroidennoks
egressive	perannopäi	peroidennopäi
terminative I	perahasai	peroihesai
terminative II	peralesai	peroilesai
terminative III	perassai	—
additive I	perahapäi	peroihepäi
additive II	peralepäi	peroilepäi

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “корма”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[2], Petrozavodsk: Periodika