peat

See also Peat

English

Etymology

Origin unknown; perhaps a borrowing from an unattested Pictish or Brythonic source.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /piːt/, X-SAMPA: /pi:t/

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• Rhymes: -iːt
• Homophone: Pete

Noun

peat (countable and uncountable; plural peats)

1. Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas. [from 14th c.]

Derived terms

• peaty

Translations

soil

• Armenian: տորֆ (hy) (torf)
• Basque: zohikatz (eu)
• Belarusian: торф (be) (torf) m
• Bulgarian: торф (bg) (torf) m
• Catalan: torba (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 泥炭 (cmn) (nítàn)

• Czech: rašelina (cs) f
• Danish: tørv (da)
• Dutch: turf (nl) m, veen (nl) n
• Finnish: turve (fi)
• French: tourbe (fr) f
• Galician: turba (gl) f
• Georgian: ტორფი (ka) (torp'i)
• German: Torf (de) m
• Hungarian: tőzeg (hu)

• Icelandic: torf (is) n, mór (is) m
• Italian: torba (it) f
• Japanese: 泥炭 (ja) (でいたん, deitan)
• Korean: 이탄 (ko) (itan) (泥炭 (ko))
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: torv (no) m and f

  Nynorsk: torv (no) f and n

• Polish: torf (pl) m
• Portuguese: turfa (pt) f
• Russian: торф (ru) (torf) m
• Scottish Gaelic: mòine f, (single piece) fàd (gd) m, (single piece) fòid (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian: тресет (sh) m, treset (sh) m
• Spanish: turba (es) f
• Swedish: torv (sv)
• Ukrainian: торф (uk) (torf) m

See also

• Peat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• pate, pâté, Peta, PETA, tape