pear

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• Received-Pronunciation: /pɛə/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /pɛː/
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• General-American: pâr
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• General-American: /pɛɹ/
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• Australian: /peː/
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• Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• New-Zealand: /ˈpeə/ without the cheer–chair merger
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• /ˈpiə/ New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
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• Scotland: /ˈpeɹ/
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• India: /ˈpiːə(r)/
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• /ˈpɜː(ɹ)/ Lancashire, fair–fur merger
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• homophone: pair
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• homophone: pare
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• homophone: pere
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• homophone: peer
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• homophone: pier (both cheer–chair merger)
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• homophone: per
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• homophone: purr (both fair–fur merger)
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• rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: P EH1 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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”).

301 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: аҳа (aḥa) — fruit
• Afrikaans: peer — fruit
• Albanian: dardhë — fruit
• Jicarilla: béela — fruit
• Arabic: كُمَّثْرَى (kummaṯrā) — fruit
• Arabic: إِجَّاص (ʔijjāṣ) — fruit
• Arabic: كمترة (kummitra) — fruit
• Arabic: كمتراية (kummitrāya) — fruit
• Arabic: عرموط (ʕarmūṭ) — fruit
• Arabic: كُمِّثْرَى (kummitra) — fruit
• Arabic: بوعويد (buʕwīd) — fruit
• Arabic: إجاص (ijjāṣ) — fruit
• Arabic: إنجاص (injāṣ) — fruit
• Aragonese: pera — fruit
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܘܼܡܵܬܪܵܐ (kumatra) — fruit
• Armenian: տանձ (tanj) — fruit
• Aromanian: pearã — fruit
• Asturian: pera — fruit
• Azerbaijani: armud — fruit
• Basque: udare — fruit
• Basque: madari — fruit
• Basque: txermen — fruit
• Belarusian: гру́ша (hrúša) — fruit
• Bengali: নাশপাতি (naśpati) — fruit
• Breton: per — fruit
• Breton: perenn — fruit
• Bulgarian: кру́ша (krúša) — fruit
• Burmese: သစ်တောသီး (sactau:si:) — fruit
• Catalan: pera — fruit
• Cebuano: peras — fruit
• Chechen: кхор (qor) — fruit
• Cherokee: ᏗᎦᏛᏗ (digadvdi) — fruit
• Chinese Cantonese: 梨 — fruit
• Chinese Cantonese: 雪梨 — fruit
• Chinese Cantonese: 沙梨 — fruit
• Chinese Cantonese: 啤梨 — fruit
• Chinese: ли (li) — fruit
• Chinese: лир (lir) — fruit
• Hakka Chinese: 梨仔 (lì-é) — fruit
• Chinese: 梨 (lâi) — fruit
• Chinese: 梨仔 (lâi-á) — fruit
• Chinese Mandarin: 梨 (lí) — fruit
• Chinese Mandarin: 梨子 (lízi) — fruit
• Wu Chinese: 梨 — fruit
• Cornish: peren — fruit
• Czech: hruška — fruit
• Dalmatian: paira — fruit
• Danish: pære — fruit
• Dhivehi: ނާޝްޕަތީ (nāšpatī) — fruit
• Dutch: peer — fruit
• East Frisian Low German: pêer — fruit
• East Frisian Low German: bêer (Harlingerland, Jeverland) — fruit
• Elfdalian: pärun — fruit
• Esperanto: piro — fruit
• Estonian: pirn — fruit
• Faroese: pera — fruit
• Finnish: päärynä — fruit
• French: poire — fruit
• North Frisian: peer — fruit
• North Frisian: peere — fruit
• North Frisian: päär (Langenhorn) — fruit
• North Frisian: peer (Ockholm) — fruit
• North Frisian: Piar — fruit
• North Frisian: pjäär — fruit
• North Frisian: pjaar (Rodenäs) — fruit
• North Frisian: pjare (Klanxbüll) — fruit
• Saterland Frisian: Peere — fruit
• West-Frisian: par — fruit
• Friulian: piruç — fruit
• Friulian: piruč — fruit
• Galician: pera — fruit
• Georgian: მსხალი (msxali) — fruit
• German: Birne — fruit
• German: Biire — fruit
• Greek: αχλάδι (achládi) — fruit
• Ancient Greek: ἄπιον (ápion) — fruit
• Ancient Greek: ἀχράς (akhrás) — fruit
• Greenlandic: pære — fruit
• Gujarati: પિઅર (piara) — fruit
• Gujarati: નાસપતી (nāsaptī) — fruit
• Hebrew: אַגָּס (agás) — fruit
• Hindi: नाशपाती (nāśpātī) — fruit
• Hungarian: körte — fruit
• Icelandic: pera — fruit
• Ido: piro — fruit
• Indonesian: pir — fruit
• Ingush: кхор (qor) — fruit
• Interlingua: pira — fruit
• Irish: piorra — fruit
• Irish: péire — fruit
• Italian: pera — fruit
• Japanese: 梨 (nashi) — fruit
• Kaitag: хъяр (qər) — fruit
• Kalmyk: кедмн (kedmn) — fruit
• Kannada: ಪೇರಳೆ (pēraḷe) — fruit
• Kannada: ಮರಸೇಬು (marasēbu) — fruit
• Karok: vírusur — fruit
• Kazakh: алмұрт (almūrt) — fruit
• Khalaj: amrût — fruit
• Khmer: ភា (phiə) — fruit
• Khmer: ផ្លែភា (phlae phiə) — fruit
• Khmer: សារី (saarii) — fruit
• Korean: 서양배 (seoyangbae) — fruit
• Korean: 배 (bae) — fruit
• Central Kurdish: ھەرمێ (hermê) — fruit
• Laki: مەروو (merû) — fruit
• Northern Kurdish: hirmî — fruit
• Northern Kurdish: karçîn — fruit
• Southern Kurdish: ئەمروو (emrû) — fruit
• Kyrgyz: алмурут (almurut) — fruit
• Lao: ຫມາກຈອງ (māk chǭng) — fruit
• Latin: pirum — fruit
• Latvian: bumbieris — fruit
• Latvian: krausis — fruit
• Lezgi: чуьхвер — fruit
• Lithuanian: kriaušė — fruit
• Livonian: bumbīer — fruit
• Low German: Beer — fruit
• Luxembourgish: Bir — fruit
• Macedonian: круша (kruša) — fruit
• Malagasy: poara — fruit
• Malay: pear — fruit
• Malay: pir — fruit
• Malayalam: സബർജൽ (sabaṟjal) — fruit
• Maltese: lanġasa — fruit
• Manchu: ᡧᡠᠯᡥᡝ (šulhe) — fruit
• Manx: peear — fruit
• Māori: pea — fruit
• Marathi: नाशपाती (nāśpātī) — fruit
• Middle English: pere — fruit
• Mingrelian: სხული (sxuli) — fruit
• Mongolian: лийр (liir) — fruit
• Mongolian: алим (alim) — fruit
• Mongolian: ᠯᠢᠢᠷ (liir) — fruit
• Mongolian: ᠠᠯᠢᠮ᠎ ᠠ (alim--a) — fruit
• Navajo: bilasáana bitseeʼ nineezígíí — fruit
• Navajo: bitseeʼ hólóní — fruit
• Neapolitan: piro — fruit
• Norman: paithe — fruit
• Norman: peire — fruit
• Norman: père — fruit
• Norwegian Bokmål: pære — fruit
• Norwegian Nynorsk: pære — fruit
• Occitan: pera — fruit
• Old English: peru — fruit
• Old Prussian: krausī — fruit
• Ossetian: кӕрдо (kærdo) — fruit
• Pashto: ناک (nāk) — fruit
• Dari: ناک (nāk) — fruit
• Iranian Persian: گلابی (golâbi) — fruit
• Iranian Persian: امرود (amrud) — fruit
• Iranian Persian: ارمود (armud) — fruit
• Plautdietsch: Kruschkje — fruit
• Polish: gruszka — fruit
• Portuguese: pera — fruit
• Punjabi: ਨਾਖ (nākh) — fruit
• Punjabi: ਨਾਸ਼ਪਾਤੀ (nāśpātī) — fruit
• Romani: ambrol — fruit
• Romanian: pară — fruit
• Romansh: pair — fruit
• Romansh: paira — fruit
• Russian: гру́ша (grúša) — fruit
• Northern Sami: peara — fruit
• Sangisari: امبورو (amburu) — fruit
• Sardinian: pira — fruit
• Scots: peer — fruit
• Scottish Gaelic: peur — fruit
• Serbo-Croatian: крушка — fruit
• Serbo-Croatian: kruška — fruit
• Shor: албырт (albırt) — fruit
• Sinhalese: පෙයා (peyā) — fruit
• Slovak: hruška — fruit
• Slovene: hruška — fruit
• Lower Sorbian: kšuška — fruit
• Upper Sorbian: krušwa — fruit
• Sotho: pere — fruit
• Spanish: pera — fruit
• Swahili: pea — fruit
• Swedish: päron — fruit
• Swedish: pära — fruit
• Tabasaran: жихир (žiꭓir) — fruit
• Tagalog: peras — fruit
• Tajik: мурӯд (murüd) — fruit
• Tajik: ношпотӣ (nošpoti) — fruit
• Tajik: нок (nok) — fruit
• Talysh: آمبو (âmbu) — fruit
• Talysh: خج (xəj) — fruit
• Talysh: امبلو (ambəlu) — fruit
• Talysh: گلابی (golâbi) — fruit
• Talysh: گلاوی (golâvi) — fruit
• Tamil: பேரிக்காய் (pērikkāy) — fruit
• Tamil: பேரி (pēri) — fruit
• Taos: pèroʼóna — fruit
• Tatar: груша (gruşa) — fruit
• Tatar: армут (armut) — fruit
• Telugu: పియర్ (piyar) — fruit
• Telugu: బేరీ (bērī) — fruit
• Thai: ลูกแพร์ (lûuk-pɛɛ) — fruit
• Tibetan: ལི (li) — fruit
• Tigrinya: ፔረ (perä) — fruit
• Turkish: armut — fruit
• Turkish: kertme — fruit
• Turkish: ahlat — fruit
• Ottoman Turkish: آرمود (armud) — fruit
• Turkmen: armyt — fruit
• Ukrainian: гру́ша (hrúša) — fruit
• Unami: hàkhàkopëlìsh — fruit
• Urdu: ناشپاتی (nāśpātī) — fruit
• Uyghur: ئامۇت (amut) — fruit
• Uzbek: nok — fruit
• Uzbek: olmur — fruit
• Venetan: péro — fruit
• Venetan: per — fruit
• Vietnamese: lê — fruit
• Vietnamese: quả lê — fruit
• Vietnamese: trái lê — fruit
• Vilamovian: biyn — fruit
• Volapük: bün — fruit
• Walloon: poere — fruit
• Welsh: gellygen — fruit
• Welsh: peren — fruit
• West Flemish: peire — fruit
• Yiddish: באַר (bar) — fruit
• Zhuang: makleiz — fruit
• Albanian: dardhë — tree
• Arabic: كُمَّثْرَى (kummaṯrā) — tree
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܝܼܠܵܢܵܐ ܟܘܼܡܵܬܪܵܐ (īlana d-kumatra) — tree
• Armenian: տանձենի (tanjeni) — tree
• Aromanian: per — tree
• Asturian: peral — tree
• Azerbaijani: armud ağacı — tree
• Basque: udareondo — tree
• Basque: madariondo — tree
• Belarusian: гру́ша (hrúša) — tree
• Bulgarian: кру́ша (krúša) — tree
• Catalan: perera — tree
• Chinese Mandarin: 梨樹 /梨树 (líshù) — tree
• Czech: hrušeň — tree
• Dutch: perenboom — tree
• Esperanto: pirarbo — tree
• Esperanto: pirujo — tree
• Estonian: pirnipuu — tree
• Finnish: päärynä — tree
• Finnish: päärynäpuu — tree
• French: poirier — tree
• Friulian: piruçâr — tree
• Friulian: piručâr — tree
• Galician: pereira — tree
• German: Birnbaum — tree
• German: Birne — tree
• Greek: αχλαδιά (achladiá) — tree
• Ancient Greek: ἄπιος (ápios) — tree
• Hungarian: körtefa — tree
• Icelandic: perutré — tree
• Italian: pero — tree
• Kaitag: хъяр (qər) — tree
• Kalmyk: кедмн (kedmn) — tree
• Korean: 배나무 (baenamu) — tree
• Central Kurdish: دار ھەرمێ (dar hermê) — tree
• Northern Kurdish: darhirmî — tree
• Northern Kurdish: hirmî — tree
• Latin: pirus — tree
• Latvian: bumbiere — tree
• Latvian: krause — tree
• Lithuanian: kriaušė — tree
• Livonian: bumbīerpū — tree
• Luxembourgish: Birebam — tree
• Macedonian: круша (kruša) — tree
• Norwegian Bokmål: pæretre — tree
• Norwegian Nynorsk: pæretre — tree
• Occitan: perièr — tree
• Old English: piriġe — tree
• Polish: grusza — tree
• Portuguese: pereira — tree
• Romani: ambrolin — tree
• Romanian: păr — tree
• Romansh: pairer — tree
• Russian: гру́ша (grúša) — tree
• Scots: peer — tree
• Scottish Gaelic: peur — tree
• Serbo-Croatian: крушка — tree
• Serbo-Croatian: kruška — tree
• Shor: албырт (albırt) — tree
• Slovak: hruška — tree
• Slovene: hruška — tree
• Lower Sorbian: kšuška — tree
• Spanish: peral — tree
• Swedish: päronträd — tree
• Turkish: armut — tree
• Ukrainian: гру́ша (hrúša) — tree
• Unami: hàkhàkopëlìshakw — tree
• Venetan: perèr — tree
• Vietnamese: cây lê — tree
• Volapük: bünep — tree
• Volapük: bünabim — tree
• Walloon: poerî — tree
• Winnebago: kšeesoroc — tree
• Finnish: päärynäpuu — wood of the pear tree
• German: Birnenholz — wood of the pear tree
• German: Birnbaumholz — wood of the pear tree
• German: Birnholz — wood of the pear tree