pe

See also Appendix:Variations of "pe"

English

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *pay- (“mouth”).

Noun

pe

1. The seventeenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

Translations

Semitic letter

• French: pé (fr) m

• Malay: pa (ms)

Anagrams

• ep , EP

External links

• Pe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Annobonese

Noun

pe

1. father

References

• 2005, John H. McWhorter, Defining Creole

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Breton

Conjunction

pe

1. or

Adjective

pe (interrogative adjective)

1. which, what

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Catalan

Noun

pe f (plural pes)

1. The Hebrew letter פ (final form ף).
2. The Latin letter P (lowercase p).

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Finnish

Etymology

Abbreviation of perjantai.

Abbreviation

pe

1. perjantai (Friday)

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Japanese

Romanization

pe

1. See ぺ
2. See ペ

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /peː/, X-SAMPA: /pe:/

Noun

pē (indeclinable)

1. The name of the letter P.

Coordinate terms

• (Latin’s names for the letters of its own alphabet): ā (A), bē (B), cē (C), dē (D), ē (E), ef (F), gē (G), hā (H), ī (I), kā (K), el (L), em (M), en (N), ō (O), pē (P), kū (Q), er (R), es (S), tē (T), ū (V), ix / īx / ex (X), ȳ (Y), zēta (Z)

References

• 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."

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Lojban

Cmavo

pe

1. Belonging to or being associated with; of.

   le boxna be fu zi'o be'o pe la daubetcis. cu cinri

   The Daubechies frequency-less wave is interesting.

Usage notes

• The cmavo ge'u can be used to indicate the termination of the pe-phrase, but is only required if the parsing of the sentence would otherwise be ambiguous.
• The cmavo pe can be followed immediately by a sumti tcita in order to have its phrase modify a cmene, as if it were an internal sumti of that cmene.

Related terms

• po
• po'e
• ne

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Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin per.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pe/, (Naples) IPA: /pə/

Preposition

pe

1. for

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Romanian

Alternative forms

• pă (Muntenia, informal), pi (Moldova), pre (archaic)

Etymology

From Latin per, with meaning influenced by super.

Preposition

pe (+accusative)

1. on

   cartea este pe masa - The book is on the table.

2. (no lexical meaning) used to indicate direct object in some cases

   o aștept pe mama - I'm waiting on/for mom.

Usage notes

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

Related terms

• peste
• pre-

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Romansch

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Noun

pe m (plural pes or peis)

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

Usage notes

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

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Spanish

Noun

pe f (plural pes)

1. Name of the letter p.

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Tocharian A

Etymology

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

Noun

pe m

1. foot

Related terms

• peṃ

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Turkish

Noun

pe

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

See also

• (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 ^{(Category: tr:Latin letter names)}

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Welsh

Conjunction

pe

1. if

   Pe bawn i'n gyfoethog, teithiwn i o gwmpas y byd — If I were rich, I would travel around the world.