pria
See also: Pria
French edit
Verb edit
pria
- third-person singular past historic of prier
Anagrams edit
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit प्रिय (priya, “beloved”). Doublet of priayi.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pria (first-person possessive priaku, second-person possessive priamu, third-person possessive prianya)
Alternative forms edit
- peria (Standard Malay)
Coordinate terms edit
Further reading edit
- “pria” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin prius, with the ending influenced by Italian prima (“before”).
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ia
Adverb edit
pria
- (archaic, literary, poetic) before, previously
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto I, page 14, lines 97–99:
- e ha natura sì malvagia e ria, ¶ che mai non empie la bramosa voglia, ¶ e dopo 'l pasto ha più fame che pria.
- and has a nature so malign and ruthless, ¶ that never doth she glut her greedy will, ¶ and after food is hungrier than before.