piro

From Latin pirum. Compare French poire, Italian pera, English pear.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpiro]
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• Rhymes: -iro
• Hyphenation: pi‧ro

piro (accusative singular piron, plural piroj, accusative plural pirojn)

1. pear (edible fruit produced by a pear tree)

   Ĉu vi ŝatus torton faritan kun piroj? ― Would you like a pie made with pears?

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiro/

piro (plural piri)

1. pear (fruit)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.roː/, [ˈpɪroː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ro/, [ˈpiːro]

pirō

1. dative/ablative singular of pirus

From Proto-Oceanic *pilo (compare with Samoan piro, Tahitian piro (“dirty, smelly”) and Hawaiian pilo (“foul odour, halitosis, pollution”)).[1][2] Maybe related to pirau (“to decay, to fester”).

piro

1. rotten, putrid
2. smelly
3. disgusting
4. offensive

piro

1. to rot
2. to disgust

piro

1. rot
2. intestines

• pirau

• waipiro
• kōpiro

• “piro” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Compound of pire +‎ -’o.

• IPA^(key): /piˈɾo/

piro

1. to peel, skin

piro

1. first-person singular present indicative of pirar

piro

1. rotten

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiɾo/ [ˈpi.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -iɾo
• Syllabification: pi‧ro

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piro m (plural piros)

1. a member of the Yine people of Peru

   Synonym: yine

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

piro

1. first-person singular present indicative of pirar

• “piro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014