pear

Signification (Anglais)

1. An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but typically elongated towards the stem.
2. A type of fruit tree (Pyrus communis).
3. The wood of the pear tree (pearwood, pear wood).
4. Choke pear (a torture device).
5. (Jamaica) avocado, alligator pear
6. A desaturated chartreuse yellow colour, like that of a pear.

Concepts

poire

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poirier

poirier commun

poirier commun|pl=grusza pospolita|uk=груша звичайна

pyrus communis

Synonymes

pear tree

fruit

pear-tree

European pear

Pyrus communis

Asian pear

seckel

pippin

plum

russet

gourd

seckel pear

Traductions

Birne

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pera

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pera

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peer

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armut

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pêra

αχλάδι

pera

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كمثرى

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pirum

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hirmî

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karçîn

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pera

pera

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Prononcé comme (IPA)

/pɛə/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: pere

Hérité de ancien anglais: pere

Appartenant à saterlandais: Peere

Appartenant à néerlandais: peer

Appartenant à danois: pære

Appartenant à français: poire

Appartenant à allemand: Birne

Appartenant à islandais: pera

Appartenant à suédois: päron

In summary

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”).