pia

1. (international standards)ISO 639-3language code forPima Bajo.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Pima Bajo terms

pia

1. (anatomy) Thepia mater, the innermost of themeninges that protect the brain andspinal cord.
   • 2009 January 25, Denis Campbell, “Kian, 4, needs a miracle. He's in the right place”, inThe Observer‎^[1]:

     One screen in the theatre relays live colour pictures of Harkness and his colleague Tiernan Byrnes's progress, cutting and pushing through first the dura, then the arachnoid and finally thepia, the thin, spider's web-type membranes that cover the brain itself.

Borrowed fromHawaiianpia.

pia (uncountable)

1. AperennialPolynesianherb whosefleshytubers yieldarrowroot.

• api-,IPA,API,IAP,AIP,Api

pia (pluralpia-guiam)

1. father

• 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

pia

1. mother

FromItalianpio,Frenchpieux,Englishpious, all fromLatinpius(“pious, devout”). CompareSpanishpío,Romanianpios.

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• IPA^(key):/ˈpia/
• Rhymes:-ia
• Hyphenation: pi‧a

pia (accusative singularpian,pluralpiaj,accusative pluralpiajn)

1. pious

   Antonym:malpia

• pieco

Cognate withMoorepiiga(“ten”).

pia

1. ten

• 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”)

• pisi(“tens”)

pia

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection ofpiar:
   1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. second-personsingularimperative

FromProto-Polynesian*pia (compare withTahitianpia andSamoanpia),^[1][2] fromProto-Oceanic*ʀabia “sago,Metroxylon sagu” (compare withFijianvia “Cyrtosperma chamissonis,Alocasia indica”) fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*ʀambia “sago palm” (compare withMalayrumbia).^[2][3]

pia

1. Polynesian arrowroot,Tacca leontopetaloides
2. starch from any plant in general (corn etc.)
3. a variety oftaro
4. a variety ofsweet potato

FromEnglishbeer.

pia

1. beer

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pia

1. stork

   Synonyms:kikonia,kekoleka

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

Back-formation frompiál.

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

pia (pluralpiák)

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

• pia inGéza Bárczi,László Országh,et al., editors,A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN.

• IPA^(key):/ˈpi.a/^[1]
• Rhymes:-ia
• Hyphenation:pì‧a

pia

1. femininesingular ofpio

pia

1. third-personsingularpresentindicative ofpiare
   • 1290–1299, Guido Cavalcanti,In un boschetto trovai pasturella:

     quando l'augelpia

     when the birdchirps

• Api,IPA,api

FromEnglishpair.

píà

1. pair

FromEnglish[alligator] pear.

píà

1. avocado

• Fyle, Clifford N.,Jones, Eldred D. (1980)A Krio-English dictionary, USA:Oxford University Press,→ISBN, page288

pia

1. inflection ofpius:
   1. nominative/vocativefemininesingular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocativeneuterplural

piā

1. ablativefemininesingular ofpius

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

FromTai. CompareThaiผ้า(pâa) andLüᦕᦱᧉ(ṗhaa²).

• IPA^(key):[pʰʲa³³]

pia 

1. (Yao'an)clothes

pia

1. Nonstandard spelling ofpiā.

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

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

FromProto-Micronesian*pia, fromProto-Oceanic*piʀa,*biʀa, fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*piʀah,*biʀah, fromProto-Austronesian*piʀaS,*biʀaS. Cognate withPaiwanbias,Bikol Centralpiga,Karo Batakpira.

• bwiaea
• piaea

pia (construct formpiain)

1. fishroe

Borrowed fromEnglishbeer.

pia (construct formpiain)

1. beer

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

FromSpanishpie.

pia

1. foot
2. leg

• Rhymes:-iɐ
• Hyphenation:pi‧a

FromOld Galician-Portuguesepia, fromLatinpīla(“mortar”).^[1][2]

pia f (pluralpias)

1. sink(basin with a drain)
2. a sink and adjacentcounter

   Deixe o prato napia, mas não dentro.

   Leave the plate on thecounter, not in the sink.

3. abasin for holding water, in particular one that is furniture or part of the building rather than a movable object

   pia batismal ―baptismalfont

• Hunsrik:Pia

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

pia f sg

1. femininesingular ofpio

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

pia

1. inflection ofpiar:
   1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. second-personsingularimperative

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

pia

1. second-personsingular voseoimperative ofpiar

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pia

1. also

   Synonym:vilevile

2. all(used with-ote for emphasis)

• IPA^(key):/ˈpi.a/

pia

1. rice

• pea

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