pea

See also peà, PEA, peʻa, and pe'a

English

Wikipedia

Peas (2), in a pod.

Etymology

Back-formation from pease, originally an uncountable noun meaning "peas" that was construed as a plural.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /piː/, X-SAMPA: /pi:/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophones: P, pee

Noun

pea (plural peas)

1. A plant, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family
2. The edible seed of some of these plants
3. (baseball) A ball travelling at high velocity

Derived terms

terms derived from pea (noun)

pea-brain pea crab pea pod peashooter peason

like two peas in a pod pigeon pea sugar pea sweet pea

Translations

plant

• Afrikaans: ertjie (af)
• Albanian: bizele (sq)
• Arabic: بازلاء (ar) (bāzilāʾ) f

  Egyptian Arabic: بسلة (besela) f

• Armenian: ոլոռ (hy) (oloṙ)

  Old Armenian: ոլոռն (oloṙn)

• Belarusian: гарох (be) (haróx) m
• Bulgarian: грах (bg) (grah)
• Catalan: pesolera (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 豌豆 (cmn) (wāndòu)

• Czech: hrách (cs) m, hrášek (cs) m
• Dutch: erwt (nl) f
• Erzya: кснав (ksnav)
• Estonian: pizo (et)
• Finnish: herne (fi)
• French: pois (fr)
• Georgian: ცერცვი (ka) (ts’erts’vi)
• German: Erbse (de) f
• Greek: αρακάς (el) (arakás) m
• Hebrew: אפונה (he)
• Hindi: मटर (hi) (maṭar)
• Hungarian: borsó (hu)
• Indonesian: ercis (id)
• Irish: peasair (ga) m
• Italian: pisello (it) m

• Japanese: 豌豆 (ja) (えんどう, endō), エンドウ (ja) (endō)
• Korean: 완두 (ko) (wandu)
• Latin: pisum (la) n
• Latvian: zirnis (lv)
• Lithuanian: žirnis (lt)
• Macedonian: грах (mk) (grah) m, грашок (mk) (grášok) m
• Malay: inidividu (ms)
• Norwegian: ert (no)
• Persian: نخود (fa) (noxod)
• Polish: groch (pl) m
• Portuguese: ervilha (pt)
• Russian: горох (ru) (goróx) m, горошек (ru) (goróšek) m, (single) горошина (ru) (goróšina) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: грашак (sh) m

  Roman: grašak (sh) m

• Slovak: hrach (sk) m, hrášok (sk) m
• Slovene: grah (sl) m
• Spanish: guisante (es)
• Tagalog: gisantes (tl)
• Turkish: bezelye (tr)
• Ukrainian: горох (uk) (horóx) m
• Urdu: مٹر (ur) (maṭar)
• Uzbek: no'xat (uz)
• Vietnamese: đậu (vi), cây đậu (vi)

edible seed

• Albanian: bizele (sq)
• Arabic: بازلاء (ar) (bāzilāʾ) f

  Egyptian Arabic: بسلة (besela) f

• Armenian: ոլոռ (hy) (oloṙ)

  Old Armenian: ոլոռն (oloṙn)

• Aromanian: madzãre (rup), bizeljie (rup), arucutetsu (rup), afcu (rup)
• Burmese: ပဲ (my) (pè:)
• Catalan: pèsol m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 豌豆 (cmn) (wāndòu)

• Czech: hrách (cs) m
• Danish: ært (da)
• Dutch: erwt (nl) f
• Erzya: кснав (ksnav)
• Esperanto: pizo (eo)
• Estonian: hernes (et)
• Faroese: ertur (fo) f
• Finnish: herne (fi)
• French: pois (fr) m, petit pois (fr) m
• Georgian: მუხუდო (ka) (mukhudo)
• German: Erbse (de) f
• Greek: αρακάς (el) (arakás) m
• Hindi: मटर (hi) (maṭar)
• Hungarian: borsó (hu)
• Icelandic: erta (is) f
• Ido: pizo (io)
• Italian: pisello (it) m
• Japanese: 豌豆 (ja) (えんどう, endō), エンドウ (ja) (endō), エンドウ豆 (ja) (endō-mame)

• Korean: 완두 (ko) (wandu)
• Latvian: zirnis (lv)
• Lithuanian: žirnis
• Maltese: piżella f
• Norwegian: ert (no)
• Okinawan: まみ (mami)
• Persian: نخود (fa) (noxod)
• Polish: groch (pl) m
• Portuguese: ervilha (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਮਟਰ (pa) (mattar)
• Romanian: mazăre (ro)
• Russian: горох (ru) (goróx) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: грашак (sh) m

  Roman: grašak (sh) m

• Slovak: hrach (sk) m
• Slovene: grah (sl) m
• Spanish: (raw pea) alverja f (Peru), arveja f (Latin America, Spain's Canary Islands), chícharo m (Cuba, Mexico, Spain's Costa del Sol and Northwest), guisante m (Spain standard usage, formal in other countries), pésol m (Southeastern Spain - also : présol) ; (tender pea) petit pois m (Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuela - pronounced 'petipuá'), bisalto (es) m
• Swedish: ärta (sv)
• Tamil: பட்டாணி (ta) (paṭṭāṇi)
• Turkish: bezelye (tr)
• Urdu: مٹر (ur) (maṭar)
• Welsh: pysen (cy) f

in baseball

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• ape
• EAP
• EPA
• PAE

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Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *päŋi. Cognate with Finnish pää and Hungarian fej.

Noun

pea (genitive pea, partitive pead)

1. head

Declension

This Estonian noun needs an inflection-table template.

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Spanish

Verb

pea (infinitive peer)

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of peer.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of peer.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of peer.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of peer.

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Walloon

Etymology

Noun

pea

1. (anatomy) skin