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English

Noun

aia (plural aias)

1. Alternative spelling of ayah

Anagrams

• AAI

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Portuguese aia. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

aia (plural aias)

1. ayah, mammy

Estonian

Etymology 1

Non-lemma form.

Noun

aia

1. genitive singular of aed

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeia.

Interjection

aia

1. ow, ouch

Synonyms

• ai

Hawaiian

Particle

aia

1. Used at the beginning of a sentence that describes the location (in space or time) of the subject.

   Aia ka ?ohana ma ke ka?a.

   The family is in the car.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin ?rea. Doublet of Italian area (“area”).

Noun

aia f (plural aie)

1. farmyard (the square courtyard in the middle of a casa colonica)
2. threshing floor
3. (literary) tutor, especially one hired by a wealthy family

Related terms

• area

Minangkabau

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *air, Proto-Malayo-Chamic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.

Noun

aia

1. water

Portuguese

Noun

aia f (plural aias)

1. lady-in-waiting
2. tutor, teacher
3. chambermaid

Related terms

• aio

Romanian

Etymology

From a, from Latin illa, feminine of ille.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.ja/
• Rhymes: -aja
• Hyphenation: a?ia

Determiner

aia

1. feminine singular of ?la

Pronoun

aia

1. feminine singular of ?la

Yurumanguí

Noun

aia

1. water

References

• Prehistoria: Lenguas y dialectos indigenas de Colombia (Luis Duque Gómez, Sergio Elías Ortiz, 1965), citing Romero's wordlist; also present in ?estmír Loukotka, ?Johannes Wilbert (editor), Classification of South American Indian Languages (1968, Los Angeles: Latin American Studies Center, University of California), page(s) 261

English

Noun

amia (plural amias)

1. The bowfin, Amia calva.

Anagrams

• A.A.M.I., Maia

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin amita. Compare Venetian àmia.

Noun

amia

1. aunt

Italian

Etymology

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ???? (amía).

Noun

amia f (plural amie)

1. bowfin (freshwater fish of the family Amiidae)

Latin

Alternative forms

• amias

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (amía)

Noun

amia f (genitive amiae); first declension

1. A sea fish, probably a tuna

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Translingual: Amia

References

• amia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• amia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) amitga
• (Surmiran) ameia

Etymology

From Latin am?ca.

Noun

amia f (plural amias)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) (female) friend, girlfriend

Coordinate terms

• (gender): ami, amih