Translingual

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Βία ‎(Bía, literally “Force”).

Proper noun

Bia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Nymphalidae – certain brush-footed butterflies.

English

Proper noun

Bia

1. (Greek mythology) The goddess and personification of force.

Translations

Irish

Alternative forms

• biadh (superseded)

Noun

bia m ‎(genitive singular bia, nominative plural bianna)

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

Declension

Derived terms

• biachlár ‎(“menu”)
• bia éanáin ‎(“wood-sorrel”)

Etymology 2

From Old Irish ·bia

Verb

bia

1. (obsolete) future analytic dependent of bí

Mutation

References

• "bia" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “biad” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Kunama

Noun

bia

1. water

References

• Christopher Ehret, A Historical-comparative Reconstruction of Nilo-Saharan (2001, ISBN 3896450980)

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• bien

Noun

bia m, f

1. definite feminine singular of bie

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

bia f

1. definite singular of bie

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• bía

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʲi.a/

Etymology 1

Verb

bia

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

·bia

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

Etymology 2

Verb

·bia

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

Mutation

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *bijō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰī-. Germanic cognates include Old English bēo (English bee), Old Frisian bē (West Frisian bij), Dutch bij, Old High German bīa, bini (German Biene, dialectal Beie), Old Norse bý (Danish and Swedish bi). The Indo-European root is also the source of Lithuanian bìtė, Latvian bite, Proto-Slavic *bьčela (Old Church Slavonic бьчєла ‎(bĭčela), Russian пчела ‎(pčela)), Celtic *beko- (Old Irish bech, Irish beach).

Noun

bīa ?

1. bee

Descendants

• Middle Low German: bie, bē, beie
  • Low German: bigge

Portuguese

Etymology

From English beer.

Noun

bia f (plural bias)

1. (US, Brazil, rare) beer

Synonyms

• cerveja

Romansch

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Latin valde.

Adjective

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

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

Swahili

Etymology

From English beer.

Noun

bia (n class, plural bia)

1. commercial beer

See also

• pembe ‎(“native beer”)

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English beer.

Noun

bia

1. beer

Vietnamese

Etymology

Borrowing from French bière, from Middle Dutch bier.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ˀɓiɜ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ˀɓiɜ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ˀɓiɜ˧˥]

Noun

bia

1. beer

Derived terms

• bia bọt
• hoa bia

Yagaria

Etymology

Probably a loanword from English beer.

Noun

bia

1. (Hua dialect) beer

References

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