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mia

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mia"

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

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Etymology 1Edit

NounEdit

 
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mia (uncountable)

  1. (classical studies) An ancient bluffing game played with dice.

Etymology 2Edit

Clipping of bulimia; intentionally formed to resemble the given name Mia as form of personification and coded language. Compare ana.

NounEdit

mia (uncountable)

  1. (Internet, slang) bulimia (used especially by the pro-mia movement).
Derived termsEdit
See alsoEdit

See alsiEdit

etymologically unrelated terms contianing "mia"

AnagramsEdit

Baba MalayEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Hokkien 命 (miā).

NounEdit

mia

  1. destiny, fortune, luck

ParticleEdit

mia

  1. possessive particle

SynonymsEdit

BavarianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

  • mir (German spelling)
  • ma (unstressed form)

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Cognate with German mir.

PronounEdit

mia

  1. me (dative)

See alsoEdit

Bavarian personal pronouns
nominative accusative dative
stressed unstressed stressed unstressed stressed unstressed
1st person singular i — mi — mia (mir) ma
2nd person singular
(informal) 		du — di — dia (dir) da
2nd person singular
(formal) 		Sie — Eahna — Eahna —
3rd person singular m er a eahm 'n eahm 'n
n es, des 's des 's
f se, de 's se 's ihr —
1st person plural mia (mir) ma uns — uns —
2nd person plural eß, ihr — enk, eich — enk, eich —
3rd person plural se 's eahna — eahna —

Etymology 2Edit

Cognate with German wir.

PronounEdit

mia

  1. we

See alsoEdit

Bavarian personal pronouns
nominative accusative dative
stressed unstressed stressed unstressed stressed unstressed
1st person singular i — mi — mia (mir) ma
2nd person singular
(informal) 		du — di — dia (dir) da
2nd person singular
(formal) 		Sie — Eahna — Eahna —
3rd person singular m er a eahm 'n eahm 'n
n es, des 's des 's
f se, de 's se 's ihr —
1st person plural mia (mir) ma uns — uns —
2nd person plural eß, ihr — enk, eich — enk, eich —
3rd person plural se 's eahna — eahna —

CatalanEdit

PronounEdit

mia

  1. (archaic, poetic, Northern Catalan, Alghero) feminine singular of meu

Usage notesEdit

Outside of poetry, certain dialects and sayings, proverbs and set phrases, this form is archaic and is normally supplanted by meva and meua.

Further readingEdit

EsperantoEdit

EtymologyEdit

mi +‎ -a

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): [ˈmia]
  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Hyphenation: mi‧a

DeterminerEdit

mia (accusative singular mian, plural miaj, accusative plural miajn)

  1. my, mine

See alsoEdit

ItalianEdit

PronounEdit

mia

  1. feminine singular of mio

AnagramsEdit

Mori BawahEdit

NounEdit

mia

  1. person

ReferencesEdit

  • The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar (2013, →ISBN, page 685

NeapolitanEdit

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

mìa f (first person singular possessive)

  1. feminine singular of mìo

PronounEdit

mìa f (first person singular possessive)

  1. feminine singular of mìo

Northern PaiuteEdit

VerbEdit

mia

  1. go

ReferencesEdit

  • Sven Liljeblad, Catherine S Fowler, Glenda Powell, Northern Paiute–Bannock Dictionary (2012, →ISBN (mia-)

Old CatalanEdit

AdjectiveEdit

mia

  1. feminine singular of meu

PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

PronunciationEdit

  • Rhymes: -iɐ
  • Hyphenation: mi‧a

VerbEdit

mia

  1. inflection of miar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

RomanianEdit

Etymology 1Edit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mia

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of mie

Etymology 2Edit

From Latin agnella. Compare Aromanian njauã.

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mia f (plural miele, masculine equivalent miel)

  1. ewe lamb
DeclensionEdit
Declension of mia
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (o) mia miaua (niște) miele mielele
genitive/dative (unei) miele mielei (unor) miele mielelor
vocative mia mielelor
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit

RomanschEdit

AdjectiveEdit

mia f (masculine mes)

  1. (possessive) my

SwahiliEdit

Swahili numbers (edit)
1,000
 ←  90  ←  99 100 101  →  200  → 
10
    Cardinal: mia

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Arabic مِئَة‎ (miʔa).

PronunciationEdit

NumeralEdit

mia (invariable)

  1. hundred

NounEdit

mia (ma class, plural mamia)

  1. hundred

Derived termsEdit

See alsoEdit

TabaruEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mia

  1. a monkey

ReferencesEdit

  • Edward A. Kotynski (1988), “Tabaru phonology and morphology”, in Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, volume 32, Summer Institute of Linguistics

TernateEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mia

  1. monkey

ReferencesEdit

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

UneapaEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Oceanic *mia, variant of *mian.

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

mia

  1. to dwell

Further readingEdit

  • Ross, Malcolm D. (2016), Andrew Pawley, editor, The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: Volume 5, People: body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, →OCLC; republished as Meredith Osmond, editor,, (please provide a date or year)

West MakianEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

mia

  1. (stative) to be good

ConjugationEdit

Conjugation of mia (stative verb)
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person timia mimia amia
2nd person nimia fimia
3rd person inanimate imia dimia
animate mamia
imperative —, mia —, mia

ReferencesEdit

  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎[1], Pacific linguistics

WolioEdit

EtymologyEdit

Compare Balantak mian.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mia

  1. person, human being

ReferencesEdit

  • Anceaux, Johannes C. (1987) Wolio Dictionary (Wolio-English-Indonesian) / Kamus Bahasa Wolio (Wolio-Inggeris-Indonesia), Dordrecht: Foris
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