פאה

From Proto-Semitic *piʔat-.

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /peˈ(ʔ)a/
• (Ashkenazi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /peɪ̯ˈɔ/
• (Sephardi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /peˈa/
• (Tiberian Hebrew, Yemenite Hebrew) IPA^(key): /peˈʔːɔ/
• (Biblical Hebrew) IPA^(key): /peːˈʔɑː/

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פֵּאָה • (pe'á, pēʾâ) f (plural indefinite פֵּאוֹת, singular construct פְּאַת־, plural construct פְּאוֹת־)

1. wig

   בימי הביניים נהגו השופטים לחבוש פאות בצבע לבן. ― In the Middle Ages judges used to wear white wigs.

2. a face (of a polyhedron)
3. a sidelock
   • Tanach, Leviticus 19:27, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     לֹא תַקִּפוּ פְּאַת רֹאשְׁכֶם וְלֹא תַשְׁחִית אֵת פְּאַת זְקָנֶךָ׃

     Lo taqífu p'át roshkhém v-lo tashḥít et p'at z'qanékha

     Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.

4. a sideburn
5. (Biblical Hebrew) corner, edge

   Near-synonym: אֶפֶס (éfes)

   • Tanach, Leviticus 19:9, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     לֹא תְכַלֶּה פְּאַת שָׂדְךָ לִקְצֹר

     lo t'khalé p'at sad'khá liq'tzór

     thou shalt not wholly reap the corner of thy field

   • Naphtali Herz Imber, Hatikva:

     וּלְפַאֲתֵי מִזְרָח, קָדִימָה, / עַיִן לְצִיּוֹן צוֹפִיָּה.

     ul'fa'até mizrákh kadíma / áyin l'tsiyón tsofiyá

     And onwards, towards the ends of the east, / An eye still looks towards Zion.

• פאה נוכרית / פֵּאָה נׇכְרִית (pe'á nokhrít)

פֵּאָה • (pe'á)

1. (Judaism) One of the 613 commandments: to leave a corner of the field uncut for the poor.
2. Pe'ah: The second tractate in the Seder Zeraim of the Mishnah and of the Talmud, whose first part deals with that commandment.

From Hebrew פֶּאַה (peá).

פֶּאַה f (Latin spelling pe’ah)

1. sidelock