peba
English edit
Etymology edit
Compare Portuguese peba. Ultimately from Old Tupi peba (“having a flattened shape”).
Noun edit
peba (plural pebas)
- An armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) found from Texas to Paraguay; the tatouhou.
References edit
- “peba”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
< pehva
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
peba (slang)
Synonyms edit
Lindu edit
Noun edit
peba
Marshallese edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from English paper, from Middle English paper, from Anglo-Norman paper, from Old French papier, from Latin papȳrus, from Ancient Greek πάπυρος (pápuros).
Pronunciation edit
- (phonetic) IPA(key): [pʲeːbˠɑ], (enunciated) [pʲe pˠɑ]
- (phonemic) IPA(key): /pʲejpˠæɰ/
- Bender phonemes: {pȩybah}
Noun edit
peba
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from English pepper, from Middle English peper, piper, from Old English piper, from West Germanic *piper, from Latin piper, from an Indo-Aryan source.
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
- (phonetic) IPA(key): [pʲeːbˠɑ], (enunciated) [pʲe pˠɑ]
- (phonemic) IPA(key): /pʲejpˠæɰ/
- Bender phonemes: {pȩybah}
Noun edit
peba
Etymology 3 edit
Same as Etymology 2, but pronounced differently and referring to Piperaceae.
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
peba
References edit
Old Tupi edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
peba (possessable)
- flatness (state of being flat)
- flattening (act or the result of making something flat)
- width (state of being wide)
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “peba”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), 1 edition, São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 376, column 1
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Old Tupi peba (“having a flattened shape”).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: pe‧ba
Adjective edit
peba m or f (plural pebas)
- (Northeast Brazil) having a flattened shape.
- Synonym: achatado
- (Northeast Brazil, slang, by extension) low-quality; unimportant; worthless
- Synonym: paia
Noun edit
peba m (plural pebas)
- The six-banded armadillo, Euphractus sexcinctus.
- Synonym: tatupeba
- A fish in the robalo family, Centropomus paralellus.
- Synonyms: camorim-corcunda, robalo-peva