Bengali edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Portuguese saia, from Old Galician-Portuguese saya, from Vulgar Latin *sagia, from Latin sagum, from earlier sagus, probably from Gaulish *sagos.

Pronunciation edit

  • (Dhaka) IPA(key): /ʃae̯a/, [ˈʃae̯aˑ]
    (file)

Noun edit

শায়া (śaẏa)

  1. the Asian petticoat, an underskirt worn beneath a sari from the waist to the ankle