pear

English

Photo of two pears on a tree

Etymology

From Middle English pere, from Old English pere, common North and West Germanic, from Vulgar Latin *pira, originally the plural of Latin pirum but reconstrued as a feminine singular. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Peere (“pear”), Dutch peer (“pear”), Danish pære (“pear”), Swedish päron (“pear”), Icelandic pera (“pear”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (UK):

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• IPA^(key): /pɛə/, [pʰeə]
• enPR: pâr, IPA^(key): /pɛɚ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛə(r)
• 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).
3. The wood of the pear tree (pearwood, pear wood).
4. Choke pear (a torture device).
5. (Jamaica) avocado, alligator pear
6. A desaturated chartreuse yellow colour, like that of a pear.

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Derived terms

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

 

Translations

fruit

• Abkhaz: аҳа (aḥa)
• Afrikaans: peer (af)
• Albanian: dardhë (sq) f
• Apache:

  Jicarilla: béela

• Arabic: كُمَّثْرَى f (kummaṯrā), إِجَّاص m (ʔijjāṣ)

  Egyptian Arabic: كمترة f (kummitra) (collective), كمتراية f (kummitrāya) (singulative)

  Gulf Arabic: عرموط m (ʿarmūṭ)

  Moroccan Arabic: بوعويد (buʕwīd), إجاص (ijjāṣ)

  South Levantine Arabic: إجاص m (ijjāṣ)

• Aragonese: pera (an) f
• Armenian: տանձ (hy) (tanj)
• Aromanian: pearã f
• Asturian: pera (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: armud (az)
• Basque: udare (eu), madari (eu), txermen (eu)
• Belarusian: гру́ша f (hrúša)
• Bengali: নাশপাতি (bn) (naśpati)
• Breton: per (br) (collective noun), perenn (br) f sg
• Bulgarian: кру́ша (bg) f (krúša)
• Burmese: သစ်တောသီး (my) (sactau:si:)
• Catalan: pera (ca) f
• Cherokee: ᏗᎦᏛᏗ (digadvdi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 梨 (lei^4-2), 雪梨 (syut³ lei^4-2) (Chinese white pear), 沙梨 (sa¹ lei^4-2) (Asian pear/nashi pear), 啤梨 (be¹ lei^4-2) (European pear)

  Mandarin: 梨 (zh) (lí), 梨子 (zh) (lízi)

  Min Nan: 梨 (lâi), 梨仔 (lâi-á)

• Cornish: peren f
• Czech: hruška (cs) f
• Dalmatian: paira f
• Danish: pære (da) c
• Dhivehi: ނާޝްޕަތީ (dv) (nāšpatī)
• Dutch: peer (nl) f
• Elfdalian: pärun n
• Esperanto: piro (eo)
• Estonian: pirn (et)
• Faroese: pera f
• Finnish: päärynä (fi)
• French: poire (fr) f
• Friulian: piruç m, piruč
• Galician: pera (gl) f
• Georgian: მსხალი (msxali)
• German: Birne (de) f

  Alemannic German: Biire f

• Greek: αχλάδι (el) n (achládi)

  Ancient: ἄπιον n (ápion), ἀχλάς f (akhlás)

• Greenlandic: pære
• Hebrew: אַגָּס (he) m (agás)
• Hindi: नाशपाती (hi) f (nāśpātī)
• Hungarian: körte (hu)
• Icelandic: pera (is) f
• Ido: piro (io)
• Indonesian: pir (id)
• Irish: piorra (ga) m, péire m
• Italian: pera (it) f
• Japanese: 梨 (ja) (なし, nashi)
• Kalmyk: кедмн (kedmn)
• Karok: vírusur
• Kazakh: алмұрт (kk) (almūrt)
• Khmer: ផ្លែភា (plae pʰie)
• Korean: 서양배 (seoyangbae), 배 (ko) (bae)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ھەرمێ (hermê)

  Laki: مەروو (merû)

  Northern Kurdish: hirmî (ku), karçîn (ku)

  Southern Kurdish: ئەمروو (emrû)

• Kyrgyz: алмурут (ky) (almurut)
• Lao: ໝາກຈອງ (lo) (māk chǭng)
• Latin: pirum n
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latvian: bumbieris m, krausis m
• Lithuanian: kriaušė (lt) f
• Low German: Beer (nds) f
• Luxembourgish: Bir (lb) f
• Macedonian: круша f (kruša)
• Malagasy: poara (mg)
• Malay: pear, pir
• Maltese: lanġasa f
• Manx: peear f
• Maori: pea
• Middle English: pere
• Mongolian: лийр (mn) (liir), ᠠᠯᠢᠮ᠎ ᠠ (alim--a) (Inner Mongolia)
• Navajo: bilasáana bitseeʼ nineezígíí, bitseeʼ hólóní
• Norman: (Jersey) paithe f, (France) peire f, (Guernsey) père f
• Northern Sami: peara
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pære (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: pære f

• Occitan: pera (oc) f
• Old English: peru f
• Ossetian: кӕрдо (kærdo)
• Persian: گلابی (fa) (golâbi), امرود (fa) (amrud), ارمود (armud) (dialectal)
• Polish: gruszka (pl) f
• Portuguese: pera (pt) f
• Romanian: pară (ro) f
• Romansch: pair m, paira f
• Russian: гру́ша (ru) f (grúša)
• Sardinian: pira f
• Saterland Frisian: Peere f
• Scots: peer
• Scottish Gaelic: peur f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: крушка f

  Roman: kruška (sh) f

• Shor: албырт (albırt)
• Sinhalese: පෙයා (peyā)
• Slovak: hruška (sk) f
• Slovene: hruška (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: kšuška f

  Upper Sorbian: krušwa f

• Sotho: pere (st)
• Spanish: pera (es) f
• Swahili: pea (sw)
• Swedish: päron (sv) n, pära (sv) c
• Tagalog: peras (tl)
• Tajik: мурӯд (murüd), ношпотӣ (nošpotī), нок (tg) (nok)
• Talysh: (Anbarani) آمبو (âmbu), (Asalemi) خج (xəj), (Asalemi) امبلو (ambəlu), (Asalemi, Masali) گلابی (golâbi), (Masali) گلاوی (golâvi)
• Tamil: பேரிக்காய் (pērikkāy)
• Taos: pèro’óna
• Tatar: груша (gruşa), армут (armut)
• Thai: ลูกแพร์ (lûuk-pɛɛ)
• Tibetan: ལི (li)
• Turkish: armut (tr), kertme (tr), ahlat (tr)
• Turkmen: armyt (tk)
• Ukrainian: гру́ша (uk) f (hrúša)
• Urdu: ناشپاتی f (nāśpātī)
• Uyghur: ئامۇت (amut)
• Uzbek: nok (uz), olmur
• Venetian: per (vec) m, pero (vec) m
• Vietnamese: lê (vi), quả lê, trái lê
• Vilamovian: biyn f
• Volapük: bün (vo)
• Walloon: poere (wa) f
• Welsh: gellygen (cy) f, peren (cy) f
• West Frisian: par
• Yiddish: באַר m (bar)
• Zhuang: makleiz

tree

• Albanian: dardhë (sq) f
• Arabic: كُمَّثْرَى f (kummaṯrā)
• Armenian: տանձենի (hy) (tanjeni)
• Aromanian: per
• Asturian: peral m or f
• Azerbaijani: armud ağacı (az)
• Basque: udareondo (eu), madariondo (eu)
• Belarusian: гру́ша f (hrúša)
• Bulgarian: кру́ша (bg) f (krúša)
• Catalan: perera f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 梨樹／梨树 (zh) (líshù), 梨树 (zh) (líshù)

• Czech: hrušeň (cs) f
• Dutch: perenboom (nl) m
• Esperanto: pirarbo, pirujo
• Estonian: pirnipuu (et)
• Finnish: päärynä (fi), päärynäpuu (fi)
• French: poirier (fr) m
• Friulian: piruçâr m, piručâr
• Galician: pereira (gl) f
• German: Birnbaum (de) m, Birne (de) f
• Greek: αχλαδιά (el) f (achladiá)

  Ancient:

• Hungarian: körtefa (hu)
• Italian: pero (it) m
• Kalmyk: кедмн (kedmn)
• Korean: 배나무 (baenamu)
• Kurdish: ,

  Sorani:

• Latin: pirus f
• Latvian: bumbiere f, krause f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Lithuanian: kriaušė (lt) f
• Luxembourgish: Birebam m
• Macedonian: круша f (kruša)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pæretre n

  Nynorsk: pæretre n

• Occitan: perièr (oc)
• Old English: piriġe f
• Polish: grusza (pl) f
• Portuguese: pereira (pt) f
• Romanian: păr (ro) m
• Romansch: pairer
• Russian: гру́ша (ru) f (grúša)
• Scots: peer
• Scottish Gaelic: peur f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: крушка f

  Roman: kruška (sh) f

• Shor: албырт (albırt)
• Slovene: hruška (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: kšuška f

• Spanish: peral (es) m
• Swedish: päronträd (sv)
• Turkish: armut (tr)
• Ukrainian: гру́ша (uk) f (hrúša)
• Venetian: perèr (vec) m
• Vietnamese: cây lê
• Volapük: bünep (vo), bünabim (vo)
• Walloon: poerî (wa) m

wood of the pear tree

• Finnish: päärynäpuu (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Birnenholz n, Birnbaumholz n, Birnholz n

See also

• warden

Anagrams

• Earp, Pera, Rape, aper, pare, prae-, præ-, rape, reap

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Galician

Peares or poldras across the river Ulla

Peares or poldras across the river Verdugo

Alternative forms

• piar

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pilare, from Latin pīla (“pillar”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peˈaɾ/

Noun

pear m (plural peares)

1. pillar

   Synonym: columna

2. window sill

   Synonym: peitoril

3. one of several stone pillars placed by way of a bridge

   Synonym: poldra

Related terms

• Os Peares

References

• Template:R:DDGM
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “piar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• “piar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian pār, ultimately from Latin pār.

Noun

pear n (plural pearen, diminutive pearke)

1. pair, couple

Further reading

• “pear”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011