# ပေ
## Burmese
### Etymology 1

* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (pe "palmyra palm tree or leaf ( ca-pe 'writings, books' )"). Luce gives Old Chinese 梖 (“talipot”) as a cognate. This is an exact semantic match, and the phonetics seem reasonable; however, the Chinese is thought to be borrowed from Sanskrit पत्त्र (pattra, “leaf”). Could the Burmese also be an Indic borrowing from the same source, or perhaps a borrowing from the Chinese?”

#### Noun

ပေ • (pe)
* corypha palm; talipot palm (Corypha elata, Corypha umbraculifera)

##### Derived terms

* ကလေးစာပေ (ka.le:cape)
* ခေတ်စမ်းစာပေ (hketcam:cape)
* စာကြီးပေကြီး (ca-kri:pe-kri:)
* စာချုပ်ပေတည်း (cahkyuppetany:)
* စာတတ်ပေတတ် (catatpetat)
* စာတိုပေစ (catuipeca.)
* စာပေ (cape)
* ဇာတာပေတာ (jatapeta)
* တုံးပေကတ်သတ် (tum:pekatsat)
* တုံးပေကတ်သတ်ခံ (tum:pekatsathkam)
* ပေစာ (peca)
* ပေထက်အက္ခရာတင် (pehtak-akhka.ratang)
* ပေထုပ် (pehtup)
* ပေဖူးလွှာ (pehpu:hlwa)
* ပေမူ (pemu)
* ပေသီး (pesi:)
* ပေသီးတွက်ခုံ (pesi:twakhkum)
* ရွှေပိန်းပေ (hrwepin:pe)
* ရွှေပေ (hrwepe)
* ရွှေမျဉ်းပေ (hrwe-myany:pe)
* ရသစာပေ (ra.sa.cape)
* သုတစာပေ (su.ta.cape)
* အနုစာပေ (a.nu.cape)

### Etymology 2

Apparently from a Proto-Lolo-Burmese *bi¹ (“anvil”), though it has been speculated that the word is a borrowing into Lolo-Burmese from some unidentified language, due to the irregular correspondence between the Burmese form and Lahu [script needed] (pì-tɛ, “idem”) (STEDT).

#### Noun

ပေ • (pe)
* anvil

##### Derived terms

* တူသားပေသားရ (tusa:pesa:ra.)
* တေသားပေသားရ (tesa:pesa:ra.)
* ထုသားပေသားရ (htu.sa:pesa:ra.)
* ပေခွက် (pehkwak)
* ပေခွက်အုပ် (pehkwak-up)

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Portuguese pé.

#### Noun

ပေ • (pe)
* foot (measure of length)

##### Derived terms

* ပေကြိုး (pe-krui:)
* ပေတံ (petam)
* ပေတစ်ရာလမ်း (petacralam:)
* ပေမီ (pemi)
* ပေမီဒေါက်မီ (pemidaukmi)

### Etymology 4

* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (pe "dirty; vile; vicious"), and not mentioned by Luce 1981. Note similarities to Old Chinese 卑 (OC *pe, “low, vulgar”).”

#### Verb

ပေ • (pe)
* to be soiled, be besmirched, be dirty

##### Derived terms

* စွန်းပေ (cwan:pe)
* တုံးပေသားရေနား (tum:pesa:rena:)
* ပေကျံ (pe-kyam)
* ပေရေ (pere)

### Etymology 5

* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (pe "have edge or point turned; dull, blunted"), and not mentioned by Luce 1981.”

#### Verb

ပေ • (pe)
* to move close to something, narrow
* to flatten
* (of a knife-edge) to be curled up
* to be blunted

#### Adjective

ပေ • (pe)
* stubborn, obstinate

#### Derived terms

* ထုံပေပေ (htumpepe)
* ပေကတ် (pekat)
* ပေကတ်ကတ် (pekatkat)
* ပေကလတ်ပေကလတ် (peka.latpeka.lat)
* ပေကလတ်ပေကလတ်လုပ် (peka.latpeka.latlup)
* ပေတုံးတာ (petum:ta)
* ပေမြှေး (pehmre:)
* ယောင်ပေပေလုပ် (yaungpepelup)
* လူပေလူတေ (lupelute)

### Etymology 6

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Not given etymology by STEDT (pe "( verb affix, euphonic )"), and not mentioned by Luce 1981.”)

#### Particle

ပေ • (pe)
* particle suffixed to a verb for emphasis
* particle suffixed to a noun to denote certainty

##### Derived terms

* ဒါပေမဲ့ (dapemai.)
* ပေမင့် (pemang.)
* ပေမည့် (pemany.)
* ပေမဲ့ (pemai.)
* ပေအံ့ (peam.)
* သို့ပေမင့် (sui.pemang.)
* သို့ပေမည့် (sui.pemany.)
* သို့ပေမဲ့ (sui.pemai.)
* သို့ပေသည့် (sui.pesany.)

### References

* ↑ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-I and -E Finals (59. Corypha Palm and Leaf (for MSS)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 13

### Further reading

* “ပေ” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

## Mon
### Etymology

Borrowed from Burmese ပေ (pe).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pe/

### Noun

ပေ (pe)
* foot measure, foot rule

### References

* Shorto, H.L. (1962) A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon‎, London: Oxford University Press. Searchable online at SEAlang.net.