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Compare Portuguese peba. Ultimately from Old Tupi peba (“having a flattened shape”).

peba (plural pebas)

  1. An armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) found from Texas to Paraguay; the tatouhou.

Slang form of pehva.

  • IPA(key): /ˈpebɑ/, [ˈpe̞bɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -ebɑ
  • Syllabification(key): pe‧ba

peba (slang)

  1. bum, ass

peba

  1. cat

Borrowed from English paper, from Middle English paper, from Anglo-Norman paper, from Old French papier, from Latin papȳrus, from Ancient Greek πάπυρος (pápuros).

  • (phonetic) IPA(key): [pʲeːbˠɑ], (enunciated) [pʲe pˠɑ]
  • (phonemic) IPA(key): /pʲejpˠæɰ/
  • Bender phonemes: {pȩybah}

peba

  1. paper
  2. a card

Borrowed from English pepper, from Middle English peper, piper, from Old English piper, from West Germanic *piper, from Latin piper, from an Indo-Aryan source.

  • (phonetic) IPA(key): [pʲeːbˠɑ], (enunciated) [pʲe pˠɑ]
  • (phonemic) IPA(key): /pʲejpˠæɰ/
  • Bender phonemes: {pȩybah}

peba

  1. a pepper (Capsicum)

Same as Etymology 2, but pronounced differently and referring to Piperaceae.

  • (phonetic) IPA(key): [pʲɛbˠɑ]
  • (phonemic) IPA(key): /pʲɛpˠæɰ/
  • Bender phonemes: {pebah}

peba

  1. pepper (Piperaceae)

From peb +‎ -a.

peba (possessable, Ib class pluriform, absolute mbeba)

  1. flatness (state of being flat)
  2. flattening (act or the result of making something flat)
  3. width (state of being wide)
  • Nheengatu: pewa
  • → Brazilian Portuguese: peba

From Old Tupi peba (“having a flattened shape”).

  • Hyphenation: pe‧ba

peba m or f (plural pebas)

  1. (Northeast Brazil) having a flattened shape.
    Synonym: achatado
  2. (Northeast Brazil, slang, by extension) low-quality; unimportant; worthless
    Synonym: paia

peba m (plural pebas)

  1. The six-banded armadillo, Euphractus sexcinctus.
    Synonym: tatupeba
  2. A fish in the robalo family, Centropomus paralellus.
    Synonyms: camorim-corcunda, robalo-peva