pie
noun
[ pʌɪ ]
• a baked dish of fruit, or meat and vegetables, typically with a top and base of pastry.
• "a meat pie"
Origin:
Middle English: probably the same word as pie2, the various combinations of ingredients being compared to objects randomly collected by a magpie.
pie
noun
• used in names of birds that resemble the magpie, especially in having black-and-white plumage, e.g. tree pie.
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French, from Latin pica ‘magpie’ (related to picus ‘green woodpecker’).
pie
noun
• a former monetary unit of India and Pakistan, equal to one twelfth of an anna.
Origin:
from Hindi pā'ī, from Sanskrit pada, padī ‘quarter’.
