peer

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• Received-Pronunciation: /pɪə/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /pɪː/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /pɪjə/
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• General-American: pîr
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• General-American: /pɪɹ/
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• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• New-Zealand: /niə̯/
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• Scotland: /piɾ/
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• /pɛː/ East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
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• rhymes with -ɪə(ɹ)
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• homophone: pier
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• homophone: pair
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• homophone: pare
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• homophone: pear (all cheer–chair merger)
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• Received-Pronunciation: /pɪə̯/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /piː.ə/
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• General-American: /pi.ɚ/
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• CMU ARPABET: P IH1 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *pūrijan Old English *pȳran Middle English peren English peer From Middle English peren, pyren, piren (“to peer, gaze”), perhaps from Old English *pȳran (“to look, peer”), from Proto-West Germanic *pūrijan (“to look”), related to Saterland Frisian pierje (“to look”), Dutch Low Saxon piren (“to look”), West Flemish pieren (“to look with narrowed eyes, squint at”), Dutch pieren (“to look closely at, examine”), Middle English pouren (“to gaze, look closely”), English pore (“to study meticulously”). Compare also West Frisian pluere (“to peer”), Dutch pluren (“to gaze squintingly”), German Low German plieren (“to blink”), Danish plire (“to peer”), Swedish plira, blira (“to peer”), and thence ultimately related to the root of English blear. The sense meaning "to be visible" is perhaps from a shortening of appear.

From Middle English per, pere, from Anglo-Norman peir, Old French per, from Latin pār. Doublet of pair and par.

pee + -er

240 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bashkir: тиң (tiñ) — someone or something of equal level
• Bulgarian: ра́вен (ráven) — someone or something of equal level
• Bulgarian: равносто́ен (ravnostóen) — someone or something of equal level
• Catalan: igual — someone or something of equal level
• Chinese Mandarin: 同輩 /同辈 (tóngbèi) — someone or something of equal level
• Chinese Mandarin: 同齡人 /同龄人 (tónglíngrén) — someone or something of equal level
• Dutch: gelijke — someone or something of equal level
• Finnish: vertainen — someone or something of equal level
• French: pair — someone or something of equal level
• French: pareil (pareille f) — someone or something of equal level
• French: semblable — someone or something of equal level
• French: égal — someone or something of equal level
• French: égale — someone or something of equal level
• German: Ebenbürtiger — someone or something of equal level
• German: Ebenbürtige — someone or something of equal level
• German: Gleicher — someone or something of equal level
• German: Gleichgestellter — someone or something of equal level
• German: Gleichrangiger — someone or something of equal level
• Hebrew: עָמִית ('amít) — someone or something of equal level
• Hebrew: רֵעַ (réa') — someone or something of equal level
• Hindi: समकक्ष (samkakṣ) — someone or something of equal level
• Hungarian: egyenrangú — someone or something of equal level
• Indonesian: sejawat — someone or something of equal level
• Irish: piara — someone or something of equal level
• Italian: pari — someone or something of equal level
• Italian: uguale — someone or something of equal level
• Japanese: 同輩 (dōhai) — someone or something of equal level
• Korean: 동배 (dongbae) — someone or something of equal level
• Macedonian: врсник (vrsnik) — someone or something of equal level
• Māori: aropā — someone or something of equal level
• Māori: hoa aropā — someone or something of equal level
• Middle English: per — someone or something of equal level
• Middle English: felawe — someone or something of equal level
• Norwegian Bokmål: jevnaldrende — someone or something of equal level
• Persian: همتا (hamtâ) — someone or something of equal level
• Portuguese: par — someone or something of equal level
• Russian: ро́вня (róvnja) — someone or something of equal level
• Russian: рове́сник (rovésnik) — someone or something of equal level
• Russian: рове́сница (rovésnica) — someone or something of equal level
• Russian: све́рстник (svérstnik) — someone or something of equal level
• Russian: све́рстница (svérstnica) — someone or something of equal level
• Russian: пэр (pɛr) — someone or something of equal level
• Scottish Gaelic: leithid — someone or something of equal level
• Serbo-Croatian: вр̀шња̄к — someone or something of equal level
• Serbo-Croatian: вршња̀киња — someone or something of equal level
• Serbo-Croatian: вр̀снӣк — someone or something of equal level
• Serbo-Croatian: вр̀сница — someone or something of equal level
• Serbo-Croatian: vr̀šnjāk — someone or something of equal level
• Serbo-Croatian: vršnjàkinja — someone or something of equal level
• Serbo-Croatian: vr̀snīk — someone or something of equal level
• Serbo-Croatian: vr̀snica — someone or something of equal level
• Sicilian: avali — someone or something of equal level
• Sicilian: cumpagnu — someone or something of equal level
• Sicilian: pariggiu — someone or something of equal level
• Sicilian: stissu — someone or something of equal level
• Spanish: par — someone or something of equal level
• Spanish: congénere — someone or something of equal level
• Swedish: like — someone or something of equal level
• Swedish: jämlike — someone or something of equal level
• Swedish: gelike — someone or something of equal level
• Turkish: akran — someone or something of equal level
• Turkish: emsâl — someone or something of equal level
• Turkish: taydaş — someone or something of equal level
• Turkish: yaşıt — someone or something of equal level
• ǃXóõ: ǃnáã — someone or something of equal level
• Arabic: تِرْب (tirb) — someone of same age
• Arabic: قَرِين (qarīn) — someone of same age
• Azerbaijani: yaşıd — someone of same age
• Bashkir: йәштәш (yəştəş) — someone of same age
• Bashkir: тиҫтер (tiśter) — someone of same age
• Belarusian: раве́снік (ravjésnik) — someone of same age
• Belarusian: раве́сьнік (ravjésʹnik) — someone of same age
• Belarusian: раве́сніца (ravjésnica) — someone of same age
• Belarusian: раве́сьніца (ravjésʹnica) — someone of same age
• Belarusian: аднале́так (adnaljétak) — someone of same age
• Belarusian: аднале́тка (adnaljétka) — someone of same age
• Belarusian: аднаго́дак (adnahódak) — someone of same age
• Belarusian: аднаго́дка (adnahódka) — someone of same age
• Bulgarian: връстни́к (vrǎstník) — someone of same age
• Bulgarian: връстни́чка (vrǎstníčka) — someone of same age
• Chinese Mandarin: 同齡人 /同龄人 (tónglíngrén) — someone of same age
• Czech: vrstevník — someone of same age
• Czech: vrstevnice — someone of same age
• Danish: jævnaldrende — someone of same age
• Dutch: leeftijdgenoot — someone of same age
• Estonian: eakaaslane — someone of same age
• Estonian: vanusekaaslane — someone of same age
• Finnish: ikätoveri — someone of same age
• German: Gleichaltriger — someone of same age
• German: Gleichaltrige — someone of same age
• Hindi: समकक्ष (samkakṣ) — someone of same age
• Hungarian: kortárs — someone of same age
• Indonesian: sebaya — someone of same age
• Irish: comhaois — someone of same age
• Italian: coetaneo — someone of same age
• Japanese: 同い年 (onaidoshi) — someone of same age
• Japanese: タメ (tame) — someone of same age
• Korean: 또래 (ttorae) — someone of same age
• Korean: 동갑 (donggap) — someone of same age
• Korean: 동년배 (dongnyeonbae) — someone of same age
• Lushootseed: ʔixwəd — someone of same age
• Macedonian: врсник (vrsnik) — someone of same age
• Macedonian: врсничка (vrsnička) — someone of same age
• Old English: efneald — someone of same age
• Polish: rówieśnik — someone of same age
• Polish: rówieśnica — someone of same age
• Polish: rówieśniczka — someone of same age
• Polish: jednolatek — someone of same age
• Polish: jednolatka — someone of same age
• Russian: рове́сник (rovésnik) — someone of same age
• Russian: рове́сница (rovésnica) — someone of same age
• Russian: све́рстник (svérstnik) — someone of same age
• Russian: све́рстница (svérstnica) — someone of same age
• Scottish Gaelic: comhaois — someone of same age
• Serbo-Croatian: вр̀шња̄к — someone of same age
• Serbo-Croatian: вршња̀киња — someone of same age
• Serbo-Croatian: вр̀снӣк — someone of same age
• Serbo-Croatian: вр̀сница — someone of same age
• Serbo-Croatian: vr̀šnjāk — someone of same age
• Serbo-Croatian: vršnjàkinja — someone of same age
• Serbo-Croatian: vr̀snīk — someone of same age
• Serbo-Croatian: vr̀snica — someone of same age
• Sicilian: cuitaniu — someone of same age
• Sicilian: pariggiu — someone of same age
• Slovak: rovesník — someone of same age
• Slovak: rovesníčka — someone of same age
• Slovene: vrstnik — someone of same age
• Slovene: vrstnica — someone of same age
• Spanish: coetáneo — someone of same age
• Swedish: jämnårig — someone of same age
• Turkish: yaşıt — someone of same age
• Ottoman Turkish: یاشداش (yaşdaş) — someone of same age
• Ukrainian: рове́сник (rovésnyk) — someone of same age
• Ukrainian: рове́сниця (rovésnycja) — someone of same age
• Ukrainian: одно́літок (odnólitok) — someone of same age
• Ukrainian: одно́літка (odnólitka) — someone of same age
• Ukrainian: одного́док (odnohódok) — someone of same age
• Ukrainian: одного́дка (odnohódka) — someone of same age
• Bulgarian: пер (per) — noble
• Catalan: par — noble
• Chinese Mandarin: 貴族 /贵族 (guìzú) — noble
• Dutch: edelman — noble
• Dutch: edele — noble
• Erzya: мастачей (mastačej) — noble
• Estonian: aadlik — noble
• Finnish: pääri — noble
• French: pair — noble
• French: noble — noble
• German: Adeliger — noble
• German: Adelige — noble
• German: Edelmann — noble
• German: Edelfrau — noble
• German: Peer — noble
• Greek: ευγενής (evgenís) — noble
• Hungarian: nemes — noble
• Irish: tiarna — noble
• Irish: bantiarna — noble
• Italian: pari — noble
• Italian: nobile — noble
• Japanese: 貴族 (kizoku) — noble
• Japanese: 華族 (kazoku) — noble
• Korean: 귀족 (gwijok) — noble
• Latvian: pērs — noble
• Middle English: per — noble
• Old English: æþel — noble
• Polish: par — noble
• Portuguese: par — noble
• Russian: пэр (pɛr) — noble
• Russian: дворяни́н (dvorjanín) — noble
• Russian: дворя́нка (dvorjánka) — noble
• Sicilian: nòbbili — noble
• Spanish: par — noble
• Spanish: noble — noble
• Swedish: pär — noble
• Turkish: asilzâde — noble
• Turkish: lord — noble
• Finnish: toveri — comrade, companion, associate
• German: Kollege — comrade, companion, associate
• German: Kollegin — comrade, companion, associate
• German: Fachkollege — comrade, companion, associate
• Hebrew: עָמִית ('amít) — comrade, companion, associate
• Hungarian: társ — comrade, companion, associate
• Indonesian: sejawat — comrade, companion, associate
• Italian: uguali — comrade, companion, associate
• Korean: 동료 (dongnyo) — comrade, companion, associate
• Middle English: per — comrade, companion, associate
• Polish: kolega — comrade, companion, associate
• Polish: koleżanka — comrade, companion, associate
• Russian: напа́рник (napárnik) — comrade, companion, associate
• Russian: напа́рница (napárnica) — comrade, companion, associate
• Russian: компаньо́н (kompanʹón) — comrade, companion, associate
• Russian: колле́га (kolléga) — comrade, companion, associate
• Russian: партнёр (partnjór) — comrade, companion, associate
• Russian: партнёрша (partnjórša) — comrade, companion, associate
• Serbo-Croatian: kolega — comrade, companion, associate
• Serbo-Croatian: kolegica — comrade, companion, associate
• Sicilian: cumpagnu — comrade, companion, associate
• Sicilian: cumpari — comrade, companion, associate
• Sicilian: picciottu di squatra — comrade, companion, associate
• Tagalog: kabarkada — comrade, companion, associate
• Bulgarian: взи́рам се (vzíram se) — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• Chinese Mandarin: 細看 /细看 (xìkàn) — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• Chinese Mandarin: 凝視 /凝视 (níngshì) — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• Czech: hledět — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• Czech: zírat — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• Czech: civět — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• Dutch: turen — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• Esperanto: elrigardi — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• Finnish: tiirailla — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• Finnish: tähyillä — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• French: scruter du regard — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• German: spähen — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• German: illern — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• German: kieken — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• German: linsen — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• Hungarian: kémlel — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• Italian: scrutare — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• Italian: sbirciare — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• Māori: whakatare — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• Māori: whakataretare — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• Māori: whātare — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• Māori: whātaretare — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• Norwegian Bokmål: kikke — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• Portuguese: espreitar — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• Russian: вгля́дываться (vgljádyvatʹsja) — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• Russian: вгляде́ться (vgljadétʹsja) — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• Russian: высма́тривать (vysmátrivatʹ) — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• Russian: вы́смотреть (výsmotretʹ) — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• Russian: всма́триваться (vsmátrivatʹsja) — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• Russian: всмотре́ться (vsmotrétʹsja) — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• Serbo-Croatian: пи́љити — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• Serbo-Croatian: píljiti — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• Sicilian: scròpiri — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• Sicilian: taliari — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• Spanish: escrutar — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• Swedish: kika — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• Swedish: spana — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• Swedish: speja — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• Swedish: plira — to look with difficulty or as if searching
• Turkish: gözetlemek — to look with difficulty or as if searching