English Explanatory Dictionary

pea

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of certain plants of the family Fabaceae: Pisum sativum and others.
  2. A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family.
  3. The edible seed of Pisum sativum.
  4. The edible seed of various other pea plants.
  5. Any of several varieties of bean.
  6. Money.
noun
  1. A ball travelling at high velocity.
  2. Any of the small numbered balls used in a pea shake game.
  3. Ellipsis of green pea galaxy.
noun
  1. a peafowl
noun
  1. Alternative form of peak.
noun
  1. Initialism of palmitoylethanolamide.
  2. Initialism of pulseless electrical activity.
  3. Initialism of preliminary ecological appraisal.
name
  1. Initialism of Portuguese East Africa.
  2. Initialism of Proto-Eastern Algonquian, the proto-language of the Eastern Algonquian languages.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/piː/ en-us-pea.ogg

Word forms

pea peas pease Pee

Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek πίσον (píson)bor. Latin pisum Late Latin pisader. Old English pise Middle English pese English peasebf. English pea Back-formation from pease, an original singular reinterpreted as a plural. Further from Middle English pese (“a pea”), from Old English pise, from Latin pisa, pisum, from Ancient Greek πίσον (píson).

Derived words

asparagus pea beach pea black-eyed pea bonavist pea breadroot scurf pea butterfly pea Campo pea Carlin pea chickling pea chick-pea chick pea chickpea Congo pea crowder pea crown pea Darling pea desert pea earthpea earth pea Egyptian pea English pea field pea garden pea glory pea golden pea goober pea grass-pea grass pea green pea green pea galaxy ground pea gungo pea hairy Darling pea heartpea heath pea hoarypea Indian pea issue pea like two peas in a pod milk pea orris pea partridge pea pea aphid pea bean peaberry Peabody peabrain peabrained pea-brained pea brain pea-brain pea bug pea butter pea-cake pea cake pea clam pea coat pea-coated pea comb pea-combed

Translations

Abenaki: piz Afrikaans: ert Afrikaans: ertjie Albanian: modhull Arabic: بَازِلَّاء Arabic: بسلة Arabic: جلبانة Armenian: ոլոռ Old Armenian: ոլոռն Aromanian: madzãri Aromanian: bizelji Aromanian: arucutetsu Aromanian: afcu Assamese: মটৰ Assamese: মটৰমাহ Asturian: arbeyu Basque: ilar Burmese: ပဲ Catalan: pèsol Chechen: кхоь Chichewa: nsawawa Chinese Cantonese: 青豆 Chinese Mandarin: 豌豆 Czech: hrách Danish: ært Dutch: erwt Erzya: кснав Esperanto: pizo Estonian: hernes Faroese: ertur Finnish: herne French: pois French: petit pois Galician: ervella Galician: chícharo Georgian: მუხუდო Georgian: ბარდა German: Erbse East Central German: Arbs Greek: αρακάς Greek: μπιζέλι Greek: πίσον Ancient Greek: πίσος Ancient Greek: πισός Greenlandic: eertaq Haitian Creole: pwa (frans) Hebrew: אֲפוּנָה Hindi: मटर Hungarian: borsó Icelandic: erta Ido: pizo Ingrian: herne Italian: pisello
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