peba
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare Portuguese peba. Ultimately from Old Tupi peba (“having a flattened shape”).
Noun
[edit]peba (plural pebas)
- An armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) found from Texas to Paraguay; the tatouhou.
References
[edit]- “peba”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Slang form of pehva.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]peba (slang)
Synonyms
[edit]Lindu
[edit]Noun
[edit]peba
Marshallese
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from English paper, from Middle English paper, from Anglo-Norman paper, from Old French papier, from Latin papȳrus, from Ancient Greek πάπυρος (pápuros).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (phonetic) IPA(key): [pʲeːbˠɑ], (enunciated) [pʲe pˠɑ]
- (phonemic) IPA(key): /pʲejpˠæɰ/
- Bender phonemes: {pȩybah}
Noun
[edit]peba
Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from English pepper, from Middle English peper, piper, from Old English piper, from West Germanic *piper, from Latin piper, from an Indo-Aryan source.
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (phonetic) IPA(key): [pʲeːbˠɑ], (enunciated) [pʲe pˠɑ]
- (phonemic) IPA(key): /pʲejpˠæɰ/
- Bender phonemes: {pȩybah}
Noun
[edit]peba
Etymology 3
[edit]Same as Etymology 2, but pronounced differently and referring to Piperaceae.
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]peba
References
[edit]Old Tupi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]peba (Ib class pluriform, absolute mbeba) (possessable)
- flatness (state of being flat)
- flattening (act or the result of making something flat)
- width (state of being wide)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “peba”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 376, column 1
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Tupi peba (“having a flattened shape”).
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: pe‧ba
Adjective
[edit]peba m or f (plural pebas)
- (Northeast Brazil) having a flattened shape.
- Synonym: achatado
- (Northeast Brazil, slang, by extension) low-quality; unimportant; worthless
- Synonym: paia
Noun
[edit]peba m (plural pebas)
- The six-banded armadillo, Euphractus sexcinctus.
- Synonym: tatupeba
- A fish in the robalo family, Centropomus paralellus.
- Synonyms: camorim-corcunda, robalo-peva
Further reading
[edit]- “peba”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- “peba”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- “peba”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
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- English terms derived from Old Tupi
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