bia

bia

1. chair

Ultimately from Sanskrit विवाह (vivāha).

bia

1. wedding

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

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bia

1. chair

bia

1. absolutive singular of bi

From English beer.

bia

1. beer

From Middle High German wie. Cognate with German wie; see there for more.

bia

1. (Sette Comuni, Luserna, interrogative) how

   Bia hòosentza d'ôarn khindar?

   What are your children's names?

   (literally, “How are your children called?”)

bia

1. (Sette Comuni, Luserna) how

   Tüa bia 's ghéet bóol.

   Do it how it's done properly.

• ambìa
• andarstbìa
• biavl, biivel

• “bia” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

From bi- (“third person pronoun”) +‎ -a (“nominalizing suffix used with monosyllabic pronouns”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

bia (third person nominative, singular, accusative biko, genitive bini, dative bina)(combining form bi-)

1. he, she

• bia is rarely used in written language; ua is preferred when writing.

Probably borrowed from Bengali বিয়া (biẏa).

bia

1. to wed

bia

1. wedding

• IPA^(key): /bia/
• Hyphenation: bia

béa (plural bia-bia, first-person possessive biaku, second-person possessive biamu, third-person possessive bianya)

1. Nonstandard spelling of bea (“tax, custom duty, expense”).

• IPA^(key): /bʲiə/^[1][2]

From Old Irish bíad (compare Scottish Gaelic biadh),^[3] from Proto-Celtic *beitom (compare Welsh bwyd), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”).

• biadh (superseded)

bia m (genitive singular bia, nominative plural bianna)

1. food
   • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 43:

     īmšə gax ilə hōŕc biə.

     [Ithimse gach uile shórt bia.]

     I eat every kind of food.

   • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 43:

     ńȧrtr̥ gax dinə lē biə mŭȧ.

     [Neartar gach duine le bia maith.]

     Everyone is strengthened by good food.

2. inner part of shelled, rinded, food
3. substance

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bia”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Old Irish ·bia.

bia

1. (obsolete) future analytic dependent of bí

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bia	bhia	mbia
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

bia

1. water

• Ehret, Christopher (2001) A Historical-Comparative Reconstruction of Nilo-Saharan (SUGIA, Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika: Beihefte; 12)‎^[1], Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN.

bia

1. Nonstandard spelling of biā.

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

From Middle High German wie. Cognate with German wie; see there for more.

bia

1. how

• “bia” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

• bien

bia f sg

1. definite feminine singular of bie

From Old Norse biða.^[1]

• bie

bia (present tense biar or bier, past tense bia or bidde, past participle bia or bidd, present participle biande, imperative bi)

1. (intransitive) to wait

   Synonym: venta

2. (intransitive) to go without eating
3. (intransitive) to persist

bia f (definite singular bia, indefinite plural bier or bior, definite plural biene or bione)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of bie
2. definite singular of bie

From Old Norse bý (“bee”).

bia f (definite singular bia, indefinite plural bier or bior, definite plural biene or bione)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of bie
2. definite singular of bie

• bía

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʲi.a/

bïa

1. first-person singular future absolute of at·tá

·bïa

1. third-person singular future conjunct of at·tá

·bïa

1. third-person singular future/present subjunctive conjunct of benaid

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
bia	bia pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/	mbia
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

• biahe (synonym)
• biaha (synonym)

From Portuguese viajar and Spanish viajar and Kabuverdianu viaji.

bia

1. travel, journey
2. times as in "three times is too much"

bia

1. to travel

Borrowed from English beer.

bia f (plural bias)

1. (US, Brazil, rare) beer

   Synonym: cerveja

• bler (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Vallader)
• blear (Sutsilvan)
• bger (Puter)

From Latin valde.

bia m (feminine singular biara, masculine plural biars, feminine plural biaras)

1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) much, a lot of

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Borrowed from English beer.^[1]

bia (n class, plural bia)

1. commercial beer

• pombe (“native beer”)

Borrowed from Arabic بَيْعَة (bayʕa).

bia (n class, plural bia)

1. cooperation, partnership (where each person pays their share)

• ubia

From Proto-Bantu *mbɪ̀gá (“pot”).

bia (ma class, plural mabia)

1. large cooking pot

• kibia

Cognate to Pagu biang, Tobelo bianga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbi.a/

bia (Jawi بيا)

1. shellfish, mollusks

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

From English beer.

bia

1. beer

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓiə˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓiə˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɓiə˧˧]

Borrowed from French bière, from Middle Dutch bier.

bia

1. beer

   bụng bia ― a beer belly

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 碑 (“stele”, SV: bi).

(classifier tấm, cái) bia

1. tombstone; gravestone; stele; monument
2. (by extension) target (for shooting); bullseye

Probably a loanword from English beer.

bia

1. (Hua dialect) beer

• John Haiman, Hua, a Papuan Language of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea

bia

1. nopal

• Long C., Rebecca, Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)‎^[2] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 369