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pe

Pronunciation: /peɪ/

The English word “pe” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The seventeenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew פ, Syriac ܦ, and others; Arabic has the analog faa).
  2. The name of the Cyrillic script letter П / п.

Etymology

From Hebrew פֵּא (pê), from Proto-Semitic *pay- (“mouth”). Doublet of pi.

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