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pear

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Photo of a pair of pears on a tree

Etymology

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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”).

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    Noun

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    pear (plural pears)

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

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    Descendants

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    • →⇒ Cantonese: 啤梨 (be1 lei4-2)
    • →⇒ Khmer: ផ្លែភា (phlae phiə)
    • → Sotho: pere
    • → Thai: แพร์ (pɛɛ)
    • → Tokelauan: pea
    • → Xhosa: ipere

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    Galician

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    Peares or poldras across the river Ulla
     
    Peares or poldras across the river Verdugo

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    Etymology

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    From Vulgar Latin *pilare, from Latin pīla (“pillar”).

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    Noun

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    pear m (plural peares)

    1. pillar
      Synonym: columna
    2. window sill
      Synonym: peitoril
    3. one of several stone pillars placed by way of a bridge
      Synonym: poldra
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    Jamaican Creole

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    One pear cut inna two.

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    (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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    • IPA(key): /ˈpʲeɹ/
    • Hyphenation: pear

    Noun

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    pear (plural pear dem, quantified pear)

    1. avocado
      Mi waan sum ackee an pear.
      I'd like a few akees and avocados.

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    West Frisian

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    Etymology

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    From Old Frisian pār, ultimately from Latin pār.

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    pear n (plural pearen, diminutive pearke)

    1. pair, couple

    Further reading

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    • “pear”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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