peat

See also: Peat

English

Etymology 1

Late Middle English, from British Vulgar Latin peta, probably ultimately from a Celtic language such as an unattested Pictish or Brythonic source, in turn possibly from Proto-Brythonic *peθ (“portion, segment, piece”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piːt/

• Audio (US):

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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, often burned as fuel. [from 14th c.]

Derived terms

• peat bog, peatbog
• peaty

Translations

soil

• Abkhaz: ато́рф (atʼórf)
• Armenian: տորֆ (hy) (torf)
• Azerbaijani: torf
• Basque: zohikatz
• Belarusian: торф m (torf)
• Breton: taouarc'h (br)
• Bulgarian: торф m (torf)
• Catalan: torba (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 泥炭 (zh) (nítàn)

• Czech: rašelina (cs) f
• Danish: tørv
• Dutch: turf (nl) m, veen (nl) n
• Esperanto: torfo
• Faroese: torv n
• Finnish: turve (fi)
• French: tourbe (fr) f
• Galician: turba (gl) f
• Georgian: ტორფი (ṭorpi)
• German: Torf (de) m
• Greek: τύρφη (el) f (týrfi)
• Hebrew: כָּבוּל (he) m (kavul)
• Hungarian: tőzeg (hu)
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• Icelandic: torf n, mór (is) m
• Irish: móin (ga) f
• Italian: torba (it) f
• Japanese: 泥炭 (でいたん, deitan)
• Kazakh: шымтезек (şymtezek)
• Korean: 이탄 (ko) (itan) (泥炭 (ko))
• Maori: rei
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: torv m or f

  Nynorsk: torv f or n

• Ossetian: торф (torf)
• Persian: تورب (fa) (turb), پوده (fa) (pude)
• Polish: torf (pl) m
• Portuguese: turfa (pt) f
• Russian: торф (ru) m (torf)
• Scottish Gaelic: mòine f, (single piece) fàd m, (single piece) fòid f
• Serbo-Croatian: тресет m, treset (sh) m
• Slovak: rašelina f
• Slovene: šota (sl) f
• Spanish: turba (es) f
• Swedish: torv (sv)
• Ukrainian: торф m (torf)

Further reading

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Etymology 2

Compare pet (“a favourite”).

Noun

peat (plural peats)

1. (obsolete) A pet, a darling; a woman.
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, I. i. 78 :

     And let it not displease thee, good Bianca, / For I will love thee ne'er the less, my girl. / A pretty peat!

References

• Kuhn, Sherman (1982): Middle English Dictionary, Part 3, p. 880

Anagrams

• PETA, Paet, Pate, Peta, epta-, pate, peta-, pâté, tape, tepa