köken: From Middle High German erbīz, erwīz, arwīz, ar(e)weiz, from Old High German arawīz, araweiz, from Proto-West Germanic *arwīt, *arwait. Cognate with Dutch erwt, Swedish ärta.
köken: Perhaps from Thracian *μαζελα (*mazela), eventually from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ǵʰ-elo (“small bean”). Due to phonetic difficulties regarding [u], less likely from Proto-Albanian *mādzula, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ǵʰ-ulo (“small bean”). Compare Aromanian madzãri (“peas”); see also the related Albanian modhull (“vetchling, yellow vetchling, vetch”), as well as Sanskrit माष (māṣa,…
köken: Borrowed from a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries). Compare Chuvash пӑрҫа (părś̬a, “bean, vetch”), Turkish burçak (“vetch”, a relative of the pea plant).
köken: From Proto-Baltic *žírˀnjas, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *źírˀnan, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm. Compare Latvian zirnis, Old Prussian syrne, Russian зерно́ (zernó), Persian خرمن (xarman), English corn, Italian grano.
pea (several plants of the family Fabaceae, especially Pisum sativum) · pea (the grain of these plants, especially Pisum sativum)
çekim: çoğul zirņi · tamlayan zirņa
köken: From Proto-Baltic *žírˀnjas, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *źírˀnan, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm. In Eastern Baltic, this word narrowed its meaning from “grain” to only one kind of grain, “pea”.