peti

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peti (comparative daha peti, superlative ən peti)

1. (Qazakh, Meghri) ugly, useless

   Synonym: yaraşıqsız

• “peti” in Obastan.com.

From Malay peti, from Tamil பெட்டி (peṭṭi, “chest, trunk, box, case”) or Hindi पेटी (peṭī, “box, chest”).

peti

1. chest

• Baba Malay Dictionary

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈpɛ.ti]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈpə.ti]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpe.ti]

peti

1. inflection of petar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

From Latin petō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeti/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -eti
• Hyphenation: pe‧ti

peti (present petas, past petis, future petos, conditional petus, volitive petu)

1. to ask for, request, beg, bid
   • 1910, L. L. Zamenhof, Proverbaro Esperanta‎^[1]:

     Kiu ne petas, tiu ne ricevas.

     One who doesn't ask doesn't receive.

• proponi (“to propose”)

Borrowed from Swedish bädd, from Old Norse beðr, from Proto-Germanic *badją. Doublet of patja.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeti/, [ˈpe̞t̪i]
• Rhymes: -eti
• Syllabification^(key): pe‧ti
• Hyphenation^(key): pe‧ti

peti (colloquial or American)

1. bed (furniture or other place for sleeping)

   Synonyms: punkka (colloquial), sänky

   Near-synonym: vuode

• “peti”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• piet

From Malay peti, from Tamil பெட்டி (peṭṭi).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /pəˈti/ [pəˈt̪i]
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: pe‧ti

pêti (plural peti-peti)

1. box, chest

• “peti” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ti/^[1]
• Rhymes: -eti
• Hyphenation: pé‧ti

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

peti m

1. plural of peto

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

peti

1. inflection of petare:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. third-person singular imperative

• tipe

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɛ.tiː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɛː.t̪i]

petī

1. present passive infinitive of petō

From Tamil பெட்டி (peṭṭi, “chest, trunk, box, case”) or Hindi पेटी (peṭī, “box, chest”).

• IPA^(key): /pəti/, [pəˈt̪i]
• Rhymes: -ti, -i

pĕti (Jawi spelling ڤتي, plural peti-peti)

1. box, chest, case

• Baba Malay: peti
• Indonesian: peti
• → Urak Lawoi': เปอตี (peti)

• “peti” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

peti

1. alternative form of pety

Serbo-Croatian numbers ^(edit)

	50
←  4	5	6  →
Cardinal: pet     Ordinal: peti     Multiplier: petostruk     Collective: petoro, petorica     Fractional: petina

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pętъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *pénktas, from Proto-Indo-European *penkʷtos.

pȇtī (Cyrillic spelling пе̑тӣ)

1. fifth

• “peti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pęti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *pínˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)penh₁-.

péti impf (Cyrillic spelling пе́ти)

1. to climb

   Nemoj se peti na drvo. ― Don't climb on a tree.

• “peti”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

peti (Cyrillic spelling пети)

1. dative/locative singular of peta

Slovene numbers

< 4	5	6 >
Cardinal : pét Ordinal : pêti Cardinal adverb : pétkrat Ordinal adverb : pêtič Multiplicative : petóren

From Proto-Slavic *pętъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *penktas.

• IPA^(key): /pɛ̀ːti/

péti (not comparable)

1. fifth

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Hard
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nom. sing.	pêti	pêta	pêto
singular
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	pêti	pêta	pêto
genitive	pêtega	pête	pêtega
dative	pêtemu	pêti	pêtemu
accusative	nominativeinan or genitiveanim	pêto	pêto
locative	pêtem	pêti	pêtem
instrumental	pêtim	pêto	pêtim
dual
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	pêta	pêti	pêti
genitive	pêtih	pêtih	pêtih
dative	pêtima	pêtima	pêtima
accusative	pêta	pêti	pêti
locative	pêtih	pêtih	pêtih
instrumental	pêtima	pêtima	pêtima
plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	pêti	pête	pêta
genitive	pêtih	pêtih	pêtih
dative	pêtim	pêtim	pêtim
accusative	pête	pête	pêta
locative	pêtih	pêtih	pêtih
instrumental	pêtimi	pêtimi	pêtimi

From Proto-Slavic *pěti.

• IPA^(key): /pèːti/

pẹ́ti impf

1. to sing

   ptica poje, ptice pojejo ― the bird sings, the birds sing

Vowel + -ti -jem (AP c)
infinitive	pẹ́ti
1st singular	pójem
infinitive	pẹ́ti			pȅt, pẹ̑t
supine	pẹ̑t
verbal noun	pẹ́tje
	participle			converb
present	pojọ̄č			—
past	pẹ̑t			—
l-participle	masculine		feminine		neuter
singular	pẹ̑ł		pẹ́la		pẹ̑lo
dual	pẹ̑la		pẹ̑li		pẹ̑li
plural	pẹ̑li		pẹ̑le		pẹ̑la
	present			imperative
1st singular	pójem			—
2nd singular	póješ			pọ̄j, pōj
3rd singular	póje			—
1st dual	pójeva			pọ̑jva, pȏjva
2nd dual	pójeta			pọ̑jta, pȏjta
3rd dual	pójeta			—
1st plural	pójemo			pọ̑jmo, pȏjmo
2nd plural	pójete			pọ̑jte, pȏjte
3rd plural	pójejo			—

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

peti

1. inflection of peta:
   1. dative/locative singular
   2. nominative/accusative dual

• “peti”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “peti”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

Borrowed from Dutch put (“well”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ti/

peti

1. well

• watrapeti