pear
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Vulgar Latin pirabor.
Proto-West Germanic *peru
Old English pere
Middle English pere
English pear
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: pears
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but typically elongated towards the stem.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of fruit tree (Pyrus communis).
pos: noun
gloss: The wood of the pear tree (pearwood, pear wood).
pos: noun
gloss: Choke pear (a torture device).
pos: noun
gloss: avocado, alligator pear
pos: noun
tags: Jamaica
gloss: A desaturated chartreuse yellow colour, like that of a pear.
pos: noun
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
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-shaped
pear shell
pear slug
pear-sucker
pear-thorn
pear thrips
peartini
pear tomato
Pear Tree
pear tree
peartree
pear wine
pear-wise
pear-withe
pear-wood
peary
perry
Pope's pear
prickly pear
prickly pear cactus
river pear
sea pear
tiger pear
wax pear
wooden pear
woody pear
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: dardhë
lang: Arabic
word: كُمَّثْرَى
roman: kummaṯrā
lang: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
word: ܐܝܼܠܵܢܵܐ ܟܘܼܡܵܬܪܵܐ
roman: īlana d-kumatra
lang: Armenian
word: տանձենի
roman: tanjeni
lang: Aromanian
word: per
lang: Asturian
word: peral
lang: Azerbaijani
word: armud ağacı
lang: Basque
word: udareondo
lang: Basque
word: madariondo
lang: Belarusian
word: гру́ша
roman: hrúša
lang: Bulgarian
word: кру́ша
roman: krúša
lang: Catalan
word: perera
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 梨樹 /梨树
roman: líshù
lang: Czech
word: hrušeň
lang: Dutch
word: perenboom
lang: Esperanto
word: pirarbo
lang: Esperanto
word: pirujo
lang: Estonian
word: pirnipuu
lang: Finnish
word: päärynä
lang: Finnish
word: päärynäpuu
lang: French
word: poirier
lang: Friulian
word: piruçâr
lang: Friulian
word: piručâr
lang: Galician
word: pereira
lang: German
word: Birnbaum
lang: German
word: Birne
lang: Greek
word: αχλαδιά
roman: achladiá
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἄπιος
roman: ápios
lang: Hungarian
word: körtefa
lang: Icelandic
word: perutré
lang: Italian
word: pero
lang: Kaitag
word: хъяр
roman: qər
lang: Kalmyk
word: кедмн
roman: kedmn
lang: Korean
word: 배나무
roman: baenamu
lang: Central Kurdish
word: دار ھەرمێ
roman: dar hermê
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: darhirmî
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: hirmî
lang: Latin
word: pirus
lang: Latvian
word: bumbiere
lang: Latvian
word: krause
lang: Lithuanian
word: kriaušė
lang: Livonian
word: bumbīerpū
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Birebam
lang: Macedonian
word: круша
roman: kruša
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: pæretre
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: pæretre
lang: Occitan
word: perièr
lang: Old English
word: piriġe
lang: Polish
word: grusza
lang: Portuguese
word: pereira
lang: Romani
word: ambrolin
lang: Romanian
word: păr
lang: Romansh
word: pairer
lang: Russian
word: гру́ша
roman: grúša
lang: Scots
word: peer
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: peur
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: крушка
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: kruška
lang: Shor
word: албырт
roman: albırt
lang: Slovak
word: hruška
lang: Slovene
word: hruška
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: kšuška
lang: Spanish
word: peral
lang: Swedish
word: päronträd
lang: Turkish
word: armut
lang: Ukrainian
word: гру́ша
roman: hrúša
lang: Unami
word: hàkhàkopëlìshakw
lang: Venetan
word: perèr
lang: Vietnamese
word: cây lê
lang: Volapük
word: bünep
lang: Volapük
word: bünabim
lang: Walloon
word: poerî
lang: Winnebago
word: kšeesoroc