Peaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /piː/
• 異形同音異義語: P, pee
• 韻: -iː

語源 1

Back-formation from pease, an original singular reinterpreted as a plural. Further from 中期英語 pese (“a pea”), from 古期英語 pise, from Latin pisa, pisum, from Ancient Greek πίσον (píson).

別の表記

• pease (archaic)

名詞

pea (plural peas or (archaic) pease)

1. 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

   1. (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;...

2. (cooking) The edible seed of Pisum sativum.

   Hyponyms: snap pea, snow pea, sugar pea, sugar snap pea

3. (cooking) The edible seed of various other pea plants.

   Hyponyms: field pea, cowpea, black-eyed pea

4. 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.

5. (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.

使用する際の注意点

See usage notes at bean regarding the differences in terminology.

派生語

派生した語

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

語源 2

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

名詞

pea (plural peas)

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

語源 3

From 中期英語 pe, po, poue, pa, paue, from 古期英語 pēa, pāwa (“peacock”) (compare 古期英語 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.

名詞

pea (plural peas)

1. (rare, archaic) a peafowl

派生語

語源 4

名詞

pea (plural peas)

1. (nautical) Alternative form of peak.

Further reading

• pea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• APE, Pae, ape, EAP, PAE, EPA

名詞

pēa m

1. alternative form of pāwa