"pe" meaning in English

See pe in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /peɪ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pe.wav [Southern-England] Forms: pei [alternative], pey [alternative]
Rhymes: -eɪ Etymology: From Hebrew פֵּא (pê), from Proto-Semitic *pay- (“mouth”). Doublet of pi. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|he|פֵּא|tr=pê}} Hebrew פֵּא (pê), {{der|en|sem-pro|*pay-||mouth}} Proto-Semitic *pay- (“mouth”), {{doublet|en|pi}} Doublet of pi Head templates: {{en-noun|?}} pe
  1. The seventeenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew פ, Syriac ܦ, and others; Arabic has the analog faa). Translations (Semitic letter): pe [feminine] (Catalan), pe (Finnish), [masculine] (French), pe [masculine] (French), פֵּא (pê) (Hebrew), pa (Malay), pei (Spanish), pe (Swedish), פּא (pey) [feminine, masculine] (Yiddish)
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /peɪ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pe.wav [Southern-England] Forms: pes [plural], pei [alternative], pey [alternative]
Rhymes: -eɪ Head templates: {{en-noun}} pe (plural pes)
  1. The name of the Cyrillic script letter П / п.
    Sense id: en-pe-en-noun-v65RSA8x Categories (other): Hebrew letter names Disambiguation of Hebrew letter names: 55 45
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Alternative forms

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      "sense": "Semitic letter",
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