English Explanatory Dictionary

pear

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but typically elongated towards the stem.
  2. A type of fruit tree (Pyrus communis).
  3. The wood of the pear tree (pearwood, pear wood).
  4. Choke pear (a torture device).
  5. avocado, alligator pear
  6. A desaturated chartreuse yellow colour, like that of a pear.
noun
  1. An indigenous group in Cambodia and Thailand.
name
  1. An endangered Mon-Khmer language of Cambodia.

Pronunciation

/pɛə/ /pɛː/ En-uk-pear.ogg pâr /pɛɹ/ en-us-pear.ogg /peː/ en-au-pair.ogg /ˈpeə/ /ˈpiə/ /ˈpeɹ/ /ˈpiːə(r)/ /ˈpɜː(ɹ)/

Word forms

pear pears

Etymology

From Middle English pere, from Old English pere, from Proto-West Germanic *peru, from Vulgar Latin pira, originally the plural of Latin pirum but reconstrued as a feminine singular, ultimately a loanword from an unknown Mediterranean substrate source. Cognate with Scots peer (“pear”), Saterland Frisian Peere, Pere (“pear”), West Frisian par (“pear”), Dutch peer (“pear”), Danish, Greenlandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk pære (“pear”), Faroese, Icelandic pera (“pear”), Swedish päron (“pear”), German Birne (“pear”), Luxembourgish Bier, Bir (“pear”), Vilamovian biyn (“pear”), Yiddish באַר (bar, “pear”), French poire (“pear”).

Synonyms

pear tree

Related words

warden

Derived words

alligator pear and a partridge in a pear tree apples and pears avocado pear butter pear Catherine pear choke pear desert pear go pear shaped go pear-shaped pear-shaped ground pear musk pear papple pear apple pear belle Hélène pear blight pear cider pear drop pear-encrinite pear-gauge pear gauge pear haw pearita Pearland pear leaf blister mite pear leaf blister moth pear leaf-curling midge pear leaf midge pearless pearlike pear louse pear midge pearmonger pear of anguish pear orchard pear oyster scale pear plum pear psylla pear quince pear shell pear slug pear-sucker pear-thorn pear thrips peartini pear tomato pear tree peartree pear wine pear-wise pear-withe pear-wood peary perry Pope's pear prickly pear cactus prickly pear river pear sea pear

Translations

Albanian: dardhë Arabic: كُمَّثْرَى Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܝܼܠܵܢܵܐ ܟܘܼܡܵܬܪܵܐ Armenian: տանձենի Aromanian: per Asturian: peral Azerbaijani: armud ağacı Basque: udareondo Basque: madariondo Belarusian: гру́ша Bulgarian: кру́ша Catalan: perera Chinese Mandarin: 梨樹 /梨树 Czech: hrušeň Dutch: perenboom Esperanto: pirarbo Esperanto: pirujo Estonian: pirnipuu Finnish: päärynä Finnish: päärynäpuu French: poirier Friulian: piruçâr Friulian: piručâr Galician: pereira German: Birnbaum German: Birne Greek: αχλαδιά Ancient Greek: ἄπιος Hungarian: körtefa Icelandic: perutré Italian: pero Kaitag: хъяр Kalmyk: кедмн Korean: 배나무 Central Kurdish: دار ھەرمێ Northern Kurdish: darhirmî Northern Kurdish: hirmî Latin: pirus Latvian: bumbiere Latvian: krause Lithuanian: kriaušė Livonian: bumbīerpū Luxembourgish: Birebam Macedonian: круша Norwegian Bokmål: pæretre Norwegian Nynorsk: pæretre Occitan: perièr
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