pie
n. C / Un. a baked dish with a pastry crust that contains meat, vegetables, or fruit. You can eat it hot or cold, and it is usually round.
n. a baked dish consisting of a pastry crust and a filling of fruit, meat, or vegetables. The crust may be a base, a lid, or both.
I baked an apple pie for dessert.
The local bakery is famous for its savory meat pies and flaky crusts.
From Middle English pye, pie, pey (“baked dish, filled pastry”), possibly attested earlier (c. 1199) in the surname Piehus (“pie-house?”). Further origin uncertain. Relation to Middle English pie, pye (“magpie”) has been suggested due to correspondences between other similar foods and the names of birds (compare haggis (“Scottish dish”) and haggess (“magpie”); and chewet (“meat pie”) and chewet (“chough, jackdaw”); however, the baked dish may instead be named after a creator with the surname Pie, a common name at the time. The surname is ultimately derived from the bird above, and thus from Old French pie, from Latin pīca (“magpie”). If true, then doublet of speight.
From Middle English pye, from Old French pie, from Latin pīca, feminine of pīcus (“woodpecker”). Cognate with speight. Doublet of pica.
From Hindi पाई (pāī, “low-denomination coin”), from Sanskrit पादिका (pādikā, “foot, shoe”), from पाद (pāda, “foot, base, quarter”) + -इक (-ika, “-ic: forming adjectives”).
From Hindi पाहि (pāhi, “migrant farmer, passer-through”), from Sanskrit पार्श्व (pārśva, “side, vicinity”).
From Spanish pie (“foot, Spanish foot”). Doublet of foot, pes, and pous.
Countable when referring to the whole baked item; uncountable when referring to the food as a mass.