different between pear vs ambrette

English

Etymology

From Middle English pere, from Old English pere, common North and West Germanic, from Vulgar Latin *pira, originally the plural of Latin pirum but reconstrued as a feminine singular. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Peere (“pear”), Dutch peer (“pear”), Danish pære (“pear”), French poire (“pear”), German Birne (“pear”), Icelandic pera (“pear”), Swedish päron (“pear”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??/, [p?e?]
• (General American) enPR: pâr, IPA^(key): /p??/
• (Indian English) IPA^(key): /?pi??(r)/
• Rhymes: -??(r)
• Homophones: pair, pare

Noun

pear (plural pears)

1. An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but elongated towards the stem.
2. A type of fruit tree (Pyrus communis).

   Synonym: pear tree

3. The wood of the pear tree (pearwood, pear wood).
4. Choke pear (a torture device).
5. (Jamaican) avocado, alligator pear
6. A desaturated chartreuse yellow colour, like that of a pear.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• warden

Anagrams

• Earp, Pera, Rape, aper, pare, prae-, præ-, rape, reap

Galician

Alternative forms

• piar

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pilare, from Latin p?la (“pillar”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe?a?/

Noun

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

Related terms

• Os Peares

References

• “pear” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “piar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “pear” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “pear” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “piar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?e?/
• Hyphenation: pear

Noun

pear (plural: pear dem, quantified: pear)

1. avocado

See also

• ackee

Further reading

• Richard Allsopp (main editor), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, 2003 (reprint by The University of the West Indies Press, originally 1996 by Oxford University Press), ISBN 9789766401450 (originally ISBN-10: 976-640-145-4), page 434

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian p?r, ultimately from Latin p?r.

Noun

pear n (plural pearen, diminutive pearke)

1. pair, couple

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

French ambrette

Noun

ambrette (countable and uncountable, plural ambrettes)

1. The musk mallow plant (Abelmoschus moschatus).
2. The essential oil produced from the seeds of the musk mallow.
3. A variety of pear.

French

Etymology

ambre +? -ette

Noun

ambrette f (plural ambrettes)

1. abelmosk, Abelmoschus moschatus

Further reading

• “ambrette” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

ambrette f

1. plural of ambretta