pea

See also: Pea, PEA, peà, peã, peʻa, and pe'a

English

A pea plant, Pisum sativum (1).

Pea seeds in a pod (2).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piː/

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• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophones: P, pee

Etymology 1

Back-formation from pease, originally an uncountable noun meaning "peas" that was construed as a plural, ultimately from Ancient Greek πίσον (píson).

Noun

pea (plural peas)

1. (botany) A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family.
2. (cooking) The edible seed of some of these plants.
3. (baseball) A ball travelling at high velocity.

Usage notes

See usage notes at bean regarding the differences in terminology.

Derived terms

Terms derived from pea (noun)

• crown pea
• like two peas in a pod
• pea-brain
• pea crab
• pea pod, peapod
• peashooter
• peason
• pea soup
• pigeon pea
• split pea
• sugar pea
• sweet pea

 

Descendants

• → Yurok: pi·š, peeesh (“a pea”)

Translations

plant

• Afrikaans: ertjie (af)
• Albanian: bizele (sq) f
• Arabic: بَازِلَّاء f (bāzillāʔ)

  Egyptian Arabic: بسلة f (besella)

  Moroccan Arabic: جلبانة f (jalbāna)

• Armenian: ոլոռ (hy) (oloṙ)

  Old Armenian: ոլոռն (oloṙn)

• Aromanian: bizelji f pl, bizeljie f pl, madzãri f
• Assamese: মটৰ গছ (motor gos)
• Azerbaijani: noxud (az)
• Basque: ilar
• Belarusian: гаро́х m (haróx), гаро́шак m (haróšak)
• Bengali: মটর (bn) (môţôr)
• Bulgarian: грах m (grah)
• Burmese: စားတော်ပဲ (my) (ca:taupai:)
• Catalan: pesolera f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 豌豆 (zh) (wāndòu)

• Czech: hrách (cs) m, hrášek m
• Danish: ært (da) c
• Dutch: erwt (nl) f
• Erzya: кснав (ksnav)
• Estonian: hernes
• Finnish: herne (fi)
• French: pois (fr)
• Galician: chícharo m, ervella f, ervello m, perico m
• Georgian: ცერცვი (cercvi), ბარდა (barda)
• German: Erbse (de) f
• Greek: αρακάς (el) m (arakás)

  Ancient Greek (Koine): πίσον n (píson)

• Hausa: fis
• Hebrew: אֲפוּנָה (he) f (afuna)
• Hindi: मटर (hi) (maṭar)
• Hungarian: borsó (hu)
• Icelandic: baun (is) f
• Indonesian: ercis (id)
• Irish: peasair m
• Italian: pisello (it) m
• Japanese: 豌豆 (ja) (えんどう, endō), エンドウ (endō)
• Kazakh: асбұршақ (asbūrşaq), бұршақ (kk) (būrşaq), нақат (naqat)
• Khmer: ន្ដេក (ndeek)
• Korean: 완두 (ko) (wandu)
• Kumyk: нохут (noxut)
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• Kurdish:
• Kyrgyz: буурчак (ky) (buurcak)
• Lao: ຖົ່ວແຮ (thūa hǣ)
• Latin: pisum (la) n
• Latvian: zirnis m
• Lithuanian: žirnis m
• Low German: Arvt (nds) f
• Macedonian: грашок m (grašok)
• Malagasy: pitipoa (mg)
• Malay: pis
• Maltese: piżella f
• Manchu: bohori
• Marathi: मटार (maṭār)
• Middle English: pese
• Mongolian: вандуй (mn) (vanduj)
• Nepali: टाउको (ṭāuko)
• Norwegian: ert (no)
• Occitan: pese (oc) m
• Persian: نخود (fa) (noxod)
• Polish: groch (pl) m
• Portuguese: ervilha (pt)
• Romanian: mazăre (ro) f
• Russian: горо́х (ru) m (goróx), горо́шек (ru) m (goróšek)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: грашак m

  Roman: grašak (sh) m

• Sinhalese: කඩල (kaḍala)
• Slovak: hrach (sk) m, hrášok m
• Slovene: grah (sl) m
• Spanish: guisante (es) m, ervilla f, arveja (es) f
• Swahili: dengu (sw)
• Swedish: ärt (sv) c
• Tagalog: gisantes
• Tajik: нахӯд (tg) (naxüd)
• Turkish: bezelye (tr)
• Turkmen: nohut
• Ukrainian: горо́х m (horóx), горо́шок m (horóšok)
• Urdu: مٹر (maṭar)
• Uzbek: noʻxat (uz)
• Vietnamese: đậu (vi), cây đậu
• Walloon: poes (wa) m, pitit poes m
• Yiddish: אַרבעס m (arbes)
• Yoruba: orí

edible seed

• Abenaki: piz
• Albanian: bizele (sq) f
• Arabic: بَازِلَّاء f (bāzillāʔ)

  Egyptian Arabic: بسلة f (besela)

  Moroccan Arabic: جلبانة f (ǧəlbæna)

• Armenian: ոլոռ (hy) (oloṙ)

  Old Armenian: ոլոռն (oloṙn)

• Aromanian: madzãri f, bizelji f pl, arucutetsu, afcu
• Assamese: মটৰ (motor),মটৰমাহ (motormah)
• Basque: ilar
• Burmese: ပဲ (my) (pai:)
• Catalan: pèsol (ca) m
• Chichewa: nsawawa
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 青豆 (ceng¹ dau^6-2)

  Mandarin: 豌豆 (zh) (wāndòu)

• Czech: hrách (cs) m
• Danish: ært (da) c
• Dutch: erwt (nl) f
• Erzya: кснав (ksnav)
• Esperanto: pizo
• Estonian: hernes
• Faroese: ertur f
• Finnish: herne (fi)
• French: pois (fr) m, petit pois (fr) m
• Galician: ervella f, chícharo m
• Georgian: მუხუდო (muxudo), ბარდა (barda)
• German: Erbse (de) f
• Greek: αρακάς (el) m (arakás), μπιζέλι (el) n (bizéli)

  Ancient Greek: πίσος m (písos)^(el), πισός m (pisós)

  Koine: πίσον n (píson)

• Greenlandic: eertaq
• Haitian Creole: pwa (frans)
• Hindi: मटर (hi) (maṭar)
• Hungarian: borsó (hu)
• Icelandic: erta (is) f
• Ido: pizo (io)
• Italian: pisello (it) m
• Japanese: 豌豆 (ja) (えんどう, endō), エンドウ (endō), エンドウ豆 (endō-mame)
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• Khmer: សណ្ដែក (km) (sɑndaek)
• Korean: 완두 (ko) (wandu)
• Lao: ຖົ່ວ (thūa)
• Latin: pīsum (la) n
• Latvian: zirnis
• Lithuanian: žirnis
• Low German: Arvt (nds) f
• Maltese: piżella f
• Middle English: pese
• Mohegan-Pequot: pish
• Norwegian: ert (no)
• Occitan: pese (oc) m
• Okinawan: まみ (mami)
• Persian: نخود (fa) (noxod), نخود سبز (noxod-sabz)
• Polish: groch (pl) m
• Portuguese: ervilha (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਮਟਰ (pa) (mattar)
• Romanian: mazăre (ro)
• Romansch: arvegl m
• Russian: горо́х (ru) m (goróx), горо́шина (ru) f (goróšina) (individual)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: грашак m

  Roman: grašak (sh) m

• Slovak: hrach (sk) m
• Slovene: grah (sl) m
• Spanish: (raw pea) (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru) alverja f , (Latin America, Spain's Canary Islands) arveja (es) f, (Cuba, Mexico, Spain's Costa del Sol and Northwest) chícharo (es) m, (Spain standard usage, formal in other countries) guisante (es) m, (Southeastern Spain - also : présol) pésol (es) m, (tender pea) petit pois m (Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuela - pronounced 'petipuá'), bisalto (es) m
• Swedish: ärta (sv)
• Tamil: பட்டாணி (ta) (paṭṭāṇi)
• Thai: ถั่ว (th) (tùua)
• Turkish: bezelye (tr)
• Urdu: مٹر (maṭar)
• Walloon: poes (wa) m, pitit poes m
• Welsh: pysen (cy) f
• Yurok: pi·š, peeesh

in baseball

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: bola rápida

Etymology 2

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.

Noun

pea (plural peas)

1. (rare, archaic) a peafowl

Derived terms

• peachick
• peachicken
• peacock
• peafowl
• peahen
• peapheasant

 

Etymology 3

Noun

pea (plural peas)

1. (nautical) Alternative form of peak

Further reading

• pea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• EAP, EPA, PAE, Pae, ape

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Estonian

Etymology

From , from Proto-Uralic *päŋe. Cognate with Finnish pää and Hungarian fej.

Noun

pea (genitive pea, partitive pead)

1. head

Declension

Declension of pea

	singular (ainsus)	plural (mitmus)
nominative (nimetav)	pea	pead
genitive (omastav)	pea	peade
partitive (osastav)	pead	päid
illative (sisseütlev)	peasse	peadesse
inessive (seesütlev)	peas	peades
elative (seestütlev)	peast	peadest
allative (alaleütlev)	peale	peadele
adessive (alalütlev)	peal	peadel
ablative (alaltütlev)	pealt	peadelt
translative (saav)	peaks	peadeks
terminative (rajav)	peani	peadeni
essive (olev)	peana	peadena
abessive (ilmaütlev)	peata	peadeta
comitative (kaasaütlev)	peaga	peadega

Adverb

pea

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.

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Japanese

Romanization

pea

1. Rōmaji transcription of ペア

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Maori

Etymology

From English bear.

Noun

pea

1. bear

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpea/ [ˈpe.a]

Etymology 1

From peer.

Noun

pea f (plural peas)

1. (colloquial) drunkenness

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:borrachera.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pea

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of peer.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of peer.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of peer.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of peer.

Further reading

• “pea”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Swahili

Verb

-pea (infinitive kupea)

1. Applicative form of -pa: to give to

Conjugation

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.

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Walloon

Etymology

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

Noun

pea ? (plural peas)

1. (anatomy) skin