Pear
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pear¹
- /pɛə/ UK
- /pɛː/ British, Southern, Standard
- /pɛɹ/ US
- /peː/ Australia
- /ˈpeə/ New Zealand
- /ˈpiə/
- /ˈpeɹ/ Scotland
- /ˈpiːə(r)/ India
- /ˈpɜː(ɹ)/
Sounds like pair, pare, pere, peer, pier (both cheer–chair merger), per, purr (both fair–fur merger) · Rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
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”).
noun pears
- An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but typically elongated towards the stem.
- A type of fruit tree (Pyrus communis).
- The wood of the pear tree (pearwood, pear wood).
- Choke pear (a torture device).
- avocado, alligator pear
- A desaturated chartreuse yellow colour, like that of a pear.
Pear²
noun
- An indigenous group in Cambodia and Thailand.
proper noun
- An endangered Mon-Khmer language of Cambodia.
