pea
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
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).
Inflected forms:
form: peas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pease
pos: noun
tags: archaic
plural
form: pease
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Any of certain plants of the family Fabaceae: Pisum sativum and others.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of certain plants of the family Fabaceae: Pisum sativum and others.
pos: noun
tags: especially
examples: Below, long rows of peas put forth their white-winged flowers, tempting the small butterflies to flutter round their inanimate likenesses;...
gloss: The edible seed of Pisum sativum.
pos: noun
gloss: The edible seed of various other pea plants.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several varieties of bean.
pos: noun
examples: peas and rice
Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata is what most people call black-eyed peas but some people call black-eyed beans.
gloss: Money.
pos: noun
tags: Multicultural-London-English
in-plural
examples: Man's making bare peas.
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.
Translations:
lang: Abenaki
word: piz
lang: Afrikaans
word: ert
lang: Afrikaans
word: ertjie
lang: Albanian
word: modhull
lang: Arabic
word: بَازِلَّاء
roman: bāzillāʔ
lang: Arabic
word: بسلة
roman: besela
lang: Arabic
word: جلبانة
roman: jalbāna
lang: Armenian
word: ոլոռ
roman: oloṙ
lang: Old Armenian
word: ոլոռն
roman: oloṙn
lang: Aromanian
word: madzãri
lang: Aromanian
word: bizelji
lang: Aromanian
word: arucutetsu
lang: Aromanian
word: afcu
lang: Assamese
word: মটৰ
roman: motor
lang: Assamese
word: মটৰমাহ
roman: motormah
lang: Asturian
word: arbeyu
lang: Basque
word: ilar
lang: Burmese
word: ပဲ
roman: pai:
lang: Catalan
word: pèsol
lang: Chechen
word: кхоь
roman: qö
lang: Chichewa
word: nsawawa
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 青豆
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 豌豆
roman: wāndòu
lang: Czech
word: hrách
lang: Danish
word: ært
lang: Dutch
word: erwt
lang: Erzya
word: кснав
roman: ksnav
lang: Esperanto
word: pizo
lang: Estonian
word: hernes
lang: Faroese
word: ertur
lang: Finnish
word: herne
lang: French
word: pois
lang: French
word: petit pois
lang: Galician
word: ervella
lang: Galician
word: chícharo
lang: Georgian
word: მუხუდო
roman: muxudo
lang: Georgian
word: ბარდა
roman: barda
lang: German
word: Erbse
lang: East Central German
word: Arbs
lang: Greek
word: αρακάς
roman: arakás
lang: Greek
word: μπιζέλι
roman: bizéli
lang: Ancient Greek
word: πίσος
roman: písos
lang: Ancient Greek
word: πισός
roman: pisós
lang: Greek
word: πίσον
roman: píson
lang: Greenlandic
word: eertaq
lang: Haitian Creole
word: pwa (frans)
lang: Hebrew
word: אֲפוּנָה
roman: afuna
lang: Hindi
word: मटर
roman: maṭar
lang: Hungarian
word: borsó
lang: Icelandic
word: erta
lang: Ido
word: pizo
lang: Ingrian
word: herne
lang: Italian
word: pisello
lang: Japanese
word: 豌豆
roman: endō
lang: Japanese
word: エンドウ
roman: endō
lang: Japanese
word: エンドウ豆
roman: endō-mame
lang: Khmer
word: សណ្ដែក
roman: sɑndaek
lang: Korean
word: 완두
roman: wandu
lang: Lao
word: ຖົ່ວ
roman: thūa
lang: Latin
word: pīsum
lang: Latvian
word: zirnis
lang: Lithuanian
word: žirnis
lang: Livonian
word: jērnaz
lang: Low German
word: Arvt
lang: Maltese
word: piżella
lang: Marathi
word: वाटाणा
roman: vāṭāṇā
lang: Middle English
word: pese
lang: Mohegan-Pequot
word: pish
lang: Norwegian
word: ert
lang: Occitan
word: pese
lang: Okinawan
word: まみ
roman: mami
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: гращок
roman: hraščok
lang: Persian
word: نخود
roman: noxod
lang: Persian
word: نخود سبز
roman: noxod-sabz
lang: Polish
word: groch
lang: Portuguese
word: ervilha
lang: Punjabi
word: ਮਟਰ
roman: maṭar
lang: Romanian
word: mazăre
lang: Romansh
word: arvegl
lang: Russian
word: горо́х
roman: goróx
lang: Russian
word: горо́шина
roman: goróšina
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: грашак
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: grašak
lang: Slovak
word: hrach
lang: Slovene
word: grah
lang: Spanish
word: alverja
lang: Spanish
word: arveja
lang: Spanish
word: alverjón
lang: Spanish
word: chícharo
lang: Spanish
word: guisante
lang: Spanish
word: pésol (also présol)
lang: Spanish
word: petit pois
roman: petipuá
lang: Spanish
word: bisalto
lang: Swedish
word: ärta
lang: Tamil
word: பட்டாணி
roman: paṭṭāṇi
lang: Thai
word: ถั่ว
roman: tùua
lang: Thai
word: ลันเตา
roman: lan-dtao
lang: Turkish
word: bezelye
lang: Urdu
word: مٹر
roman: maṭar
lang: Walloon
word: poes
lang: Walloon
word: pitit poes
lang: Welsh
word: pysen
lang: Yurok
word: pi·š
lang: Yurok
word: peeesh