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Yes. The word ria is a Scrabble US word. The word ria is worth 3 points in Scrabble:

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3-letter words (3 found)

AIR,RAI,RIA,

2-letter words (2 found)

AI,AR,

You can make 5 words from ria according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of ria

ria ira rai ari iar air

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Definitions and meaning of ria

ria

English

Etymology

From German Ria, from Spanish ría (inlet, estuary), from río (river), from Latin.

Noun

ria (plural rias)

  1. (geography) A narrow inlet of the sea formed by a flooded unglaciated river valley. [from 19th c.]

Translations

Anagrams

  • 'air, ARI, Ari, IAR, IRA, Ira, Rai, air, rai, raï

Esperanto

Etymology

ri +‎ -a

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈria]
  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Hyphenation: ri‧a

Determiner

ria (accusative singular rian, plural riaj, accusative plural riajn)

  1. (possessive, neologism, nonstandard) their (singular)

French

Etymology

From Galician.

Pronunciation

Noun

ria f (plural rias)

  1. ria
    Synonym: aber

Further reading

  • “ria”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Verb

ria

  1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of rir:
    1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative
    2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    3. third-person singular imperative

Italian

Adjective

ria f

  1. feminine singular of rio

Anagrams

  • -ari, -irà, Ari, RAI, Rai, ari, ira, rai

Malay

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ria/
  • Rhymes: -ia, -a
  • (Johor-Riau) IPA(key): [riə], [rʲə]

Adjective

ria (Jawi spelling ريا)

  1. happy

Synonyms

  • gembira
  • girang
  • riang
  • sukacita

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -iɐ
  • Hyphenation: ri‧a

Etymology 1

Alteration of rio (river), or borrowed from Spanish ría.

Noun

ria f (plural rias)

  1. (hydrography) ria (rugged coastal inlet)
  2. (hydrography) branch; inlet (body of water extending from or flowing into a larger one)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

ria

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

Swedish

Etymology

Probably from Finnish riihi (kiln, grain drying cabin).

Noun

ria c

  1. a dryer, a kiln to dry corn; a traditional Finnish/Scandinavian wooden building used for indoor drying of corn

Declension

Verb

ria (present riar, preterite riade, supine riat, imperative ria)

  1. to dry corn in a kiln

Conjugation

Ternate

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɾi.a]

Verb

ria

  1. (transitive) to admonish

Conjugation

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ziə˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ʐiə˧˧]
  • (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ɹiə˧˧]

Noun

(classifier bộ) ria • (挗, 髭, 𣭯, 𩮭)

  1. a mustache

See also

  • râu

Woi

Noun

ria

  1. blood

Yoruba

Alternative forms

  • ra

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɾī.ā/

Pronoun

ria

  1. (Ekiti, Ijesha) our, ours, us
    Synonym: tìwa

Source: wiktionary.org