pear

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Photo of two pears

Etymology

Old English pere, common North and West Germanic, from Vulgar Latin *pira, feminine singular of pira, plural of pirum, pear

Pronunciation

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• (RP) IPA: /pɛə/, SAMPA: /pE@/
• (GenAm) enPR: pâr, IPA: /pɛɹ/, SAMPA: /pEr\/

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• Homophones: pair, pare

Noun

pear (plural pears)

1. An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but elongated towards the stem.
2. (also pear tree) A type of fruit tree (Pyrus communis).

   A trio of pears pared to a pair of pears.

3. The wood of the pear tree.
4. choke pear (a torture device)

Derived terms

Terms derived from pear

alligator pear anchovy-pear apple-pear apples and pears Asian pear avocado pear balsam pear butter-pear cactus pear Callery pear Chinese pear, Chinese white pear choke-pear European pear garlic pear grape pear greening-pear hard pear

Japanese pear Korean pear Le Conte pear Malvern pear Moorcroft pear Nashi pear pear-apple pear blight pear drop pear-encrinite pear-gauge pear-haw pear leaf blister mite pear leaf blister moth pear leaf-curling midge, pear leaf midge pear-louse

pear midge pearmonger pear orchard pear oyster scale pear-plum pear psylla pear-quince pear-shaped pear-shell pear-slug pear-sucker pear-thorn pear thrips pear tree pear-wise pear-withe

pear-wood peary perry prickly pear sand Pear snow pear sugar-pear snowy pear Stinking Bishop pear strawberry pear Taiwan pear vegetable pear vine-pear wax pear willowleaf pear, willow-leafed pear wooden pear Ya Pear

Translations

fruit

Afrikaans: peer (af) Albanian: dardhë (sq) f. Arabic: كمثرى (ar) (kúmmaṯrā) f., إجاص (ar) (ʾijjāṣ) m. Armenian: տանձ (hy) (tanj) Azeri: armud (az) Basque: udare (eu), madari (eu), txermen (eu) Belarusian: груша (be) (hrúša) f. Breton: per collective noun; perenn singular f Bulgarian: круша (bg) (krúša) f. Burmese: သစ်တောသီး (my) (thit taw thee) Catalan: pera (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 梨 (cmn) (lí), 梨子 (cmn) (lízi) Czech: hruška (cs) f. Danish: pære (da) Dutch: peer (nl) f. Esperanto: piro (eo) Estonian: pirn (et) Faroese: pera (fo) f. Finnish: päärynä (fi) French: poire (fr) f. Galician: pera (gl) f. Georgian: მსხალი (ka) (msxali) German: Birne (de) f. Greek: αχλάδι (el) (achládi) n., απίδι (el) (apídi) n., άπιον (el) (ápion) n. (obsolete) Hebrew: אגס (he) (agás) m. Hindi: नाशपाती (hi) (nāśpātī) f. Hungarian: körte (hu) Ido: piro (io) Italian: pera (it) f. Japanese: 梨 (ja) (なし, nashi) Kazakh: алмұрт (kk) (almurt) Khmer: ផ្លែភា (km) (plae pʰie) Korean: 서양배 (ko) (seoyangbae), 배 (ko) (bae) Kurdish: hirmî (ku) f., karçîn (ku), هه‌رمێ (ku)

Lao: ໝາກຈອງ (lo) Latin: pirum (la) n. Latvian: bumbieris (lv) m. Lithuanian: kriaušė (lt) f. Luxembourgish: Bir (lb) f. Macedonian: круша (mk) (krúša) f. Norwegian: pære (no) c. Persian: گلابی (fa) (golabi), امرود (fa) (amrud) Polish: gruszka (pl) f. Portuguese: pêra (pt) f. Romanian: pară (ro) f. Russian: груша (ru) (grúša) f. Sardinian: pira f. Scots: peer Scottish Gaelic: peur (gd) f. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: крушка (sh) f. Roman: kruška (sh) f. Slovak: hruška (sk) f. Slovene: hruška (sl) f. Spanish: pera (es) f. Swahili: pea (sw) Swedish: päron (sv) n., pära (sv) c. Tagalog: peras (tl) Tajik: мурӯд (tg) (murūd), ношпотӣ (tg) (nošpotī) Taos: pèro’óna Tatar: груша (tt) (gruşa), армут (tt) (armut) Thai: ลูกแพร์ (th) (luukphaae) Turkish: armut (tr) Ukrainian: груша (uk) (hrúša) f. Urdu: ناشپاتی (ur) (nāśpātī) f. Uyghur: ئامۇت (ug) Uzbek: nok (uz) Vietnamese: lê (vi), quả lê (vi), trái lê (vi) Volapük: bün (vo) West Frisian: par (fy)

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Albanian: dardhë (sq) f. Arabic: كمثرى (ar) (kúmmaṯrā) f. Armenian: տանձենի (hy) (tanjeni) Azeri: armud ağacı (az) Basque: udareondo (eu), madariondo (eu) Belarusian: груша (be) (hrúša) f. Bulgarian: круша (bg) (krúša) f. Catalan: perera (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 梨樹 (zh), 梨树 (zh) (líshù) Czech: hrušeň (cs) f. Dutch: perenboom (nl) m. Esperanto: pirarbo (eo), pirujo (eo) Estonian: pirnipuu (et) Finnish: päärynä (fi), päärynäpuu (fi) French: poirier (fr) m. Galician: pereira (gl) f. German: Birnbaum (de) m. Greek: αχλαδιά (akhlaðyá) f., απιδιά (apiðyá) f., αχλάδα (akhláða) f. (folk and poetic), απιδέα (apiðéa) f. (obsolete) Hungarian: körtefa (hu) Italian: pero (it) m.

Kurdish: دار هه‌رمێ Latin: pirus (la) m. Lithuanian: kriaušė (lt) f. Luxembourgish: Birebam (lb) m. Macedonian: круша (mk) (krúša) f. Norwegian: pæretre (no) n. Polish: grusza (pl) f. Portuguese: pereira (pt) f. Romanian: păr (ro) m. Russian: груша (ru) (grúša) f. Scots: peer Scottish Gaelic: peur (gd) f. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: крушка (sh) f. Roman: kruška (sh) f. Slovene: hruška (sl) f. Spanish: peral (es) m. Swedish: päronträd (sv) Turkish: armut (tr) Ukrainian: груша (uk) (hrúša) f. Vietnamese: cây lê (vi) Volapük: bünep (vo), bünabim (vo)

Anagrams

• aper, pare, rape, reap

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West Frisian

Noun

pear

1. pair