pe
/peɪ//ˌpiːˈʔiː/
pe noun: the seventeenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew פ, Syriac ܦ, and others; Arabic has the analog faa).
Noun (1)
pe
Noun (2)
pe (plural pes)
- The name of the Cyrillic script letter П / п.
Proper noun (1) capitalized: PE
PE (usually uncountable, plural PEs)
- Initialism of Prince Edward Island: a province of Canada.
- Initialism of Port Elizabeth: a city in South Africa.
- Initialism of Portable Edition (usually used for a software version).
- Initialism of Preinstallation Environment.
- Initialism of Portable Executable (executable file format used by modern versions of Microsoft Windows).
- In ELF executables, there aren't a whole lot of code caves (such as in the PE format), so you are not likely to be able to shove more than just a meager amount of shellcode into existing code slots […]2016, Ryan "elfmaster" O'Neill, Learning Linux Binary Analysis (page 97)
- Abbreviation of Pernambuco: a state of Brazil.
- Abbreviation of Highland Papua: a province of Indonesia.
Noun (3) capitalized: PE
PE (countable and uncountable, plural PEs)
- Initialism of professional engineer.
- Initialism of physical education.
- Initialism of preliminary examination.
- Initialism of protective earthing.
- Initialism of polyethylene.
- Initialism of polyether.
- Initialism of pulmonary embolism.
- Initialism of premature ejaculation.
- Initialism of private equity.
- The PE industry, which runs funds that can invest outside public markets, has trillions of dollars in assets under management.2019 October 3, “Everything Is Private Equity Now”, in Bloomberg Businessweek
- Initialism of permanent establishment.
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Pe
Pe
- Alternative form of Pi.
Proper noun (3) capitalized: Pe
Pe (plural Pes)
- A surname.
pe meaning in Bengali, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada
pe in Bengali
- পিই
pe in Telugu
- పె
More languagesFewer languages
- pe in Nepali
- पीई
- pe in Malay
- pa
Examples of pe in a sentence
- A crepier at work at For Crêpe Sake in East Lansing on Friday.
- Wallace’s crêpes are plain, with just powdered sugar and strawberries on the side.
- For dessert there were crêpes suzette with his favourite, grand marnier sauce.
Forms of pe
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | pei |
| alternative form | pey |
| plural | pes |
| plural | PEs |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | PEs |
| plural | Pes |
Origin of pe
From Hebrew פֵּא (pê), from Proto-Semitic *pay- (“mouth”). Doublet of pi.
From an idiosyncratic romanization of Chinese 郫 (pí)縣 /县 (Píxiàn).
Words formed from pe
Phrases with pe
Words that rhyme with pe
Questions about pe
- What does pe mean?
- Pe means the seventeenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew פ, Syriac ܦ, and others; Arabic has the analog faa).
- What is pe in Bengali?
- Pe in Bengali is পিই. See Pe meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is pe?
- Pe can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce pe?
- Pe is pronounced /peɪ/.
- What is the plural of pe?
- The plural of pe is pes.
Words near pe in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: pe (page history and authors); PE (page history and authors); Pe (page history and authors); pe (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pe (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pe (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pe (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pe (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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