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3-letter words (1 found)

PIA,

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AI,PA,PI,

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Definitions and meaning of pia

pia

Etymology 1

Noun

pia

  1. (anatomy) The pia mater, the innermost of the meninges that protect the brain and spinal cord.

Etymology 2

Noun

pia (uncountable)

  1. A perennial Polynesian herb whose fleshy tubers yield arrowroot.

Anagrams

  • AIP, API, Api, IAP, IPA

Allentiac

Noun

pia (plural pia-guiam)

  1. father

References

  • Discovery of a Fragment of the Printed Copy of the Work on the Language of the Millcayac Indians (1913) (in notes)
  • Willem F. H. Adelaar, The Languages of the Andes (2004), citing Luis de Valdiva's work

Comanche

Noun

pia

  1. mother

Esperanto

Etymology

From Italian pio, French pieux, English pious, all from Latin pius (pious, devout). Compare Spanish pío, Romanian pios.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpia]
  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Hyphenation: pi‧a

Adjective

pia (accusative singular pian, plural piaj, accusative plural piajn)

  1. pious
    Antonym: malpia

Related terms

  • pieco

Farefare

Etymology

Cognate with Moore piiga (ten).

Numeral

pia

  1. ten

Derived terms

  • pia la ayɩla (eleven)
  • pia la ayi (twelve)
  • pia la atã (thirteen)
  • pia la anaasɩ (fourteen)
  • pia la anuu (fifteen)
  • pia la ayoobɩ (sixteen)
  • pia la ayopɔɩ (seventeen)
  • pia la anii (eighteen)
  • pia la awɛɩ (nineteen)
  • pisyi (twenty)
  • pitã (thirty)
  • pinãasɩ (forty)
  • pinuu (fifty)
  • pisyoobɩ (sixty)
  • pisyopɔɩ (seventy)
  • pinii (eighty)
  • piswɛɩ (ninety)
  • tʋspia (ten thousand)

Related terms

  • pisi (tens)

Galician

Verb

pia

  1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of piar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Hawaiian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *pia, from Proto-Oceanic *piʀaq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *biʀaq (wild taro).

Noun

pia

  1. Polynesian arrowroot
  2. starch
  3. a variety of taro
  4. a variety of sweet potato

Etymology 2

From English beer.

Noun

pia

  1. beer

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

pia

  1. stork
    Synonyms: kikonia, kekoleka

References

  • Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “pia”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press

Hungarian

Etymology

Back-formation from piál.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpijɒ]
  • Hyphenation: pia
  • Rhymes: -jɒ

Noun

pia (plural piák)

  1. (slang) booze, drink, grog, liquor

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • pia in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Italian

Adjective

pia f sg

  1. feminine singular of pio

Anagrams

  • Api, IPA, api

Krio

Etymology

From English [alligator] pear.

Noun

pia

  1. avocado

Latin

Adjective

pia

  1. inflection of pius:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

piā

  1. ablative feminine singular of pius

References

  • pia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Lolopo

Etymology

From Tai. Compare Thai ผ้า (pâa) and ᦕᦱᧉ (ṗhaa²).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [pʰʲa³³]

Noun

pia 

  1. (Yao'an) clothes

Mandarin

Romanization

pia

  1. Nonstandard spelling of piā.

Usage notes

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Marshallese

Pronunciation

  • (phonetic) IPA(key): [pʲiɑ]
  • (phonemic) IPA(key): /pʲijæɰ/
  • Bender phonemes: {piyah}

Etymology 1

From Proto-Micronesian *pia, from Proto-Oceanic *piʀa, *biʀa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *piʀah, *biʀah, from Proto-Austronesian *piʀaS, *biʀaS. Cognate with Paiwan bias, Bikol Central piga, Karo Batak pira.

Alternative forms

  • bwiaea
  • piaea

Noun

pia (construct form piain)

  1. fish roe

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English beer.

Noun

pia (construct form piain)

  1. beer

References

  • Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish pie.

Noun

pia

  1. foot
  2. leg

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -iɐ
  • Hyphenation: pi‧a

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese pia, from Latin pīla (mortar).

Noun

pia f (plural pias)

  1. sink (basin with a drain)
  2. a sink and adjacent counter
  3. a basin for holding water, in particular one that is furniture or part of the building rather than a movable object
    pia batismalbaptismal font
Descendants
  • Hunsrik: Pia

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

pia f sg

  1. feminine singular of pio

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pia

  1. inflection of piar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

References

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpja/ [ˈpja]
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Syllabification: pia

Verb

pia

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of piar

Swahili

Pronunciation

Adverb

pia

  1. also
    Synonym: vilevile
  2. all (used with -ote for emphasis)

West Makian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpi.a/

Noun

pia

  1. rice

Alternative forms

  • pea

References

  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[2], Pacific linguistics

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