peba

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.

• “peba”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Slang form of pehva.

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

peba (slang)

1. bum, ass

• ahteri, pylly, perse, takapuoli, peppu

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.

• pepa

• (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.

• pepa

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

peba

1. pepper (Piperaceae)

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

From peb +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛβ̞a/
• Rhymes: -ɛβa
• Hyphenation: pe‧ba

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

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “peba”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 376, column 1

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

• Rhymes: -ɛbɐ
• Hyphenation: pe‧ba

peba m or f (plural pebas)

1. (Northeast Brazil) having a flattened shape.

   Synonym: achatado

2. (Northeast Brazil, South Brazil, colloquial, 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

• “peba”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “peba”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “peba”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025