# pea
## Translingual
### Symbol

pea
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Peranakan Indonesian.

### See also

* Wiktionary’s coverage of Peranakan Indonesian terms

## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /piː/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Homophones: P, pee
* Rhymes: -iː

### Etymology 1

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).

#### Alternative forms

* pease (archaic)

#### Noun

pea (plural peas or (archaic) pease)
* Any of certain plants of the family Fabaceae: Pisum sativum and others.
    Coordinate term: bean
    Hyponyms: garden pea; field pea, cowpea, black-eyed pea; pigeon pea, sea pea, sweetpea, sweet pea
** (especially, when without a qualifier) A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family.
    Hyponyms: snap pea, snow pea, sugar pea, sugar snap pea
*** 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXVI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 277:Below, long rows of peas put forth their white-winged flowers, tempting the small butterflies to flutter round their inanimate likenesses;...
* (cooking) The edible seed of Pisum sativum.
    Hyponyms: snap pea, snow pea, sugar pea, sugar snap pea
* (cooking) The edible seed of various other pea plants.
    Hyponyms: field pea, cowpea, black-eyed pea
* Any of several varieties of bean.
    peas and rice
    Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata is what most people call black-eyed peas but some people call black-eyed beans.
* (MLE, in the plural) Money.
    Man's making bare peas.
** 2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane, spoken by Nathan (Simon Manyonda):Oh, come on. Help a brother out. People see you coppin', might inspire them. Look, I know you ain't payin' bills right now. Man must have bare peas saved up.

##### Usage notes

See usage notes at bean regarding the differences in terminology.

##### Derived terms

* asparagus pea
* beach pea
* black-eyed pea
* bonavist pea
* breadroot scurf pea
* butterfly pea
* Campo pea
* Carlin pea
* chickling pea
* chick-pea
* chick pea
* Congo pea
* crowder pea
* crown pea
* Darling pea
* desert pea
* earth pea
* Egyptian pea
* English pea
* field pea
* garden pea
* glory pea
* golden pea
* goober pea
* grass-pea
* grass pea
* green pea galaxy
* ground pea
* gungo pea
* hairy Darling pea
* heath pea
* issue pea
* like two peas in a pod
* milk pea
* orris pea
* partridge pea
* pea aphid
* pea bean
* pea brain
* pea-brain
* pea-brained
* pea butter
* pea-cake
* pea cake
* pea clam
* pea coat
* pea-coated
* pea comb, pea-combed
* pea crab
* pea eggplant
* pea galaxy
* pea gravel
* pea green
* pea jacket
* pea-jacketed
* pea-knuckle
* pea-knuckle war
* pea-maggot
* pea moth
* pea ore
* pea patch
* pea pod, peapod
* pea roller
* pea shingle
* pea-shooter
* peashooter
* pea-sized
* peason
* pea soup
* pea-souper
* pea soup fog
* pea-soup fog
* pea-time
* pea-time is past
* pea whistle
* pigeon pea
* red pea
* rosary pea
* scurfy pea
* sea pea
* sensitive pea
* Siberian pea tree
* Siberian pea-tree
* snap pea
* snow pea
* split pea
* string pea
* Sturt's desert pea
* sugar pea
* sugar snap pea
* Swainson pea
* sweet pea
* Tangier pea
* tear up the pea patch
* the last of pea-time
* water blossom pea
* wedge pea
* white pea bean
* yellow pea

##### Descendants

* → Abenaki: piz (“a pea”)
* → Mohegan-Pequot: pish (“a pea”)
* → Yurok: pi·š, peeesh (“a pea”)

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From having the appearance of a pea (see English etymology 1), the edible seed of Pisum sativum, the pea plant.

#### Noun

pea (plural peas)
* (baseball) A ball travelling at high velocity.
* (US, Indiana, gambling) Any of the small numbered balls used in a pea shake game.
* (astronomy) Ellipsis of green pea galaxy.

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

From Middle English pe, po, poue, pa, paue, from Old English pēa, pāwa (“peacock”) (compare Old English pāwe (“peahen”)) and Old Norse pái (“peacock”), both from Proto-Germanic *pāwô (“peacock”), from Latin pāvō (“peacock”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pau, West Frisian pau, Dutch pauw, German Pfau. Doublet of Pavo.

#### Noun

pea (plural peas)
* (rare, archaic) a peafowl

##### Derived terms

* peachick
* peachicken
* peacock
* peafowl
* peahen
* peapheasant, pea-pheasant

### Etymology 4
#### Noun

pea (plural peas)
* (nautical) Alternative form of peak

### Further reading

* pea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* APE, Pae, ape, EAP, PAE, EPA

## Basque
### Noun

pea
* absolutive singular of pe

## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): pe$^5$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: pe$^5$
*** Yale: péh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: pe$^5$
*** Guangdong Romanization: pé$^5$
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰɛː¹³/

### Noun

pea (Cantonese)
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    放pea [Cantonese] ― fong$^3$ pe$^5$ [Jyutping] ― to slack off

#### Derived terms

* 拚pea
* 放pea

### Adjective

pea (Cantonese)
* slack; without effort

### Related terms

* hea

## Estonian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pää, from Proto-Uralic *päŋe. Cognate with Finnish pää and Hungarian fej.

### Pronunciation

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### Noun

pea (genitive pea, partitive pead)
* head

#### Derived terms

* linnapea
* pealinn
* peamine

### Adverb

pea (not comparable)
* almost
    Pea iga kord seisab ta seal kohas.He stands there almost every time.
* soon, immediately, quickly (in modern use almost always together with some other word or affix, such as kohe, õige, nii, -gi)
    Kohe pea oleme kohal.Soon we'll be there.
    Rändurid uinusid pea.The travelers fell asleep quickly.

### Further reading

* “pea”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
* “pea”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
* “pea”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
* pea in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

## Hawaiian
### Etymology

From English bear.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpe.a/, [ˈpɛ.jə]
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### Noun

pea
* bear

#### Derived terms

* pea ʻālika (“polar bear”)
* pea pāʻani (“teddy bear”)
* pea Kina (“panda bear”)

## Japanese
### Romanization

pea
* Rōmaji transcription of ペア

## Maori
### Etymology

From English bear.

### Noun

pea
* bear

## Niuean
### Etymology

From English bear.

### Noun

pea
* bear

## Old English
### Noun

pēa m
* Alternative form of pāwa

## Rarotongan
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English bear.

#### Noun

pea
* bear

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English pear.

#### Noun

pea
* pear

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from English pair.

#### Noun

pea
* pair

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpea/ [ˈpe.a]
* Rhymes: -ea
* Syllabification: pe‧a

### Etymology 1

Deverbal from peer.

#### Noun

pea f (plural peas)
* (colloquial) drunkenness
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

pea
* inflection of peer:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “pea”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Verb

-pea (infinitive kupea)
* Applicative form of -pa: to give to

#### Conjugation

Conjugation of -pea :
| Positive present | -napea |
| Subjunctive | -pee |
| Negative | -pei |
| Imperative singular | pea |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kupea |
| Negative | kutopea |
Imperatives :
| Singular | pea |
| Plural | peeni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | hupea |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -lipea |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kupea |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -tapea |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -tapea |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -sipee |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngepea |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singepea |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalipea |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalipea |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -mepea |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshapea |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -japea |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kipea |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipopea |
| Consecutive | kapea / positive subject concord + -kapea |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kapee |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :

## Tahitian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English bear. Cognates include Hawaiian pea, Maori pea, Tokelauan pea and Wallisian pea.

### Noun

pea
* bear

## Tokelauan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpe.a/
* Hyphenation: pe‧a

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *pea. Cognates include Tongan pea and Samoan pea.

#### Particle

pea
* Indicates a continuous action; keep on, continuously
* Indicates that the action was performed in spite of what preceded; nevertheless, still

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English pair.

#### Noun

pea
* pair
* A woman's costume worn over a long skirt.

#### Verb

pea
* (stative) to be alike

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from English pear.

#### Noun

pea
* pear
* pear tree

### Etymology 4

Borrowed from English bear. Cognates include Hawaiian pea, Maori pea, Tahitian pea and Wallisian pea.

#### Noun

pea
* bear

### References

* R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎, Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 265

## Wallisian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English bear. Cognates include Hawaiian pea, Maori pea, Tahitian pea and Tokelauan pea.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pe.a/
* Hyphenation: pe‧a

### Noun

pea
* bear

## Walloon
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French pel, from Latin pellis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to cover, wrap; skin, hide, cloth”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pja/, /pɛː/

### Noun

pea f (plural peas)
* (anatomy) skin
* hide, fur

## West Makian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpe.a/

### Noun

pea
* Alternative form of pia (“rice”)

### References

* Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics