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pe en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /peɪ/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Hebrew פֵּא (pê), from Proto-Semitic *pay- (“mouth”). Doublet of pi.

Meanings

  1. The seventeenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew פ, Syriac ܦ, and others; Arabic has the analog faa).

Forms

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pey alternative lexicographic

Translations (9)

fi pe (Semitic letter) · he פֵּא (Semitic letter) · fr pe (Semitic letter) · ca pe (Semitic letter) · sv pe (Semitic letter) · ms pa (Semitic letter) · es pei (Semitic letter) · fr(Semitic letter) · yi פּא (Semitic letter)

Source: en.wiktionary, “pe” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

pe en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /peɪ/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. The name of the Cyrillic script letter П / п.

Forms

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pey alternative lexicographic
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pes Number=Plur lexicographic