Shortened fromhow are you?, with influence fromhi. US, 1940s.[1]
hiya
- An informal greeting,hi,hello.
- Synonyms:seeThesaurus:hello
Hiya, love, how's you?
Onomatopoeic.
hiya
- (martial arts)Akiai, shouted as a limb is swung in attack.
Onomatopoeic.
hiya
- giddyup
- (martial arts)Akiai, shouted as a limb is swung in attack.
hiya
- Rōmaji transcription ofひや
hiyá
- he;she;it
FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*həyaq (cf.Aklanonhuya',Hiligaynonhuya), fromProto-Austronesian*Səyaq (cf.Paiwansiaq).[1] Unrelated toArabicحَيَاء(ḥayāʔ,“shame”).
hiyâ (Baybayin spellingᜑᜒᜌ)
- shame;feeling ofembarrassment
- Synonym:(obsolete)bikalot
Sa taong mayhiya, salita’y panunumpa.- To a person that knowsshame, a word is a vow.
- act ofshaming someone
- shyness;timidity
CompareCebuanohiya andEnglishhiya /hi-yah.
hiyá (Baybayin spellingᜑᜒᜌ)
- used to get a horse or work animal to go faster:giddyup!
- ^Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*Seyaq”, in the CLDF dataset fromThe Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–),→DOI
- “hiya”, inPambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila,2018.
hiya (third person personal pronoun, objective and nominative case, common gender)
- him
- her
- he
- she
hiya (unclassified holonym; singulativehiya a,dualhiya kipë,pluralhiya pë)
- boy
- Perri Ferreira, Helder (2017),Yanomama Clause Structure[1], volume 1, Utrecht: LOT,→ISBN, page115
