Danish

Proper noun

Pia

1. A female given name.

References

• Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 29 411 females with the given name Pia have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on 19 May, 2011.

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpiːa]
• Hyphenation: Pi‧a

Proper noun

Pia

1. A female given name recently popular.

Norwegian

Etymology

Latin Pius.

Proper noun

Pia

1. A female given name used in the twentieth century.

Swedish

Etymology

Latin Pius.

Proper noun

Pia

1. A female given name popular in the twentieth century.

English

Noun

pia

1. (anatomy) The pia mater, the innermost of the meninges that protect the brain and spinal cord
   • 2009, January 25, “Denis Campbell”, in Kian, 4, needs a miracle. He's in the right place:

     One screen in the theatre relays live colour pictures of Harkness and his colleague Tiernan Byrnes's progress, cutting and pushing through first the dura, then the arachnoid and finally the pia, the thin, spider's web-type membranes that cover the brain itself.

Anagrams

• API, IAP, IPA

Allentiac

Noun

pia ‎(plural pia-guiam)

1. father

Reference

• Discovery of a Fragment of the Printed Copy of the Work on the Language of the Millcayac Indians (1913) (in notes)
• Willem F. H. Adelaar, The Languages of the Andes (2004), citing Luis de Valdiva's work

Comanche

Noun

pia

1. mother

Esperanto

Adjective

pia ‎(accusative singular pian, plural piaj, accusative plural piajn)

1. pious

Hawaiian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *pia, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, compare Indonesian rumbia

Noun

pia

1. Polynesian arrowroot
2. starch

Etymology 2

English beer

Noun

pia

1. beer

Hungarian

Etymology

Back-formation from piál.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpiʲɒ]
• Hyphenation: pia

Noun

pia ‎(plural piák)

1. (slang) booze, drink, grog, liquor

Declension

Derived terms

• piás

Italian

Adjective

pia

1. feminine singular of pio

Anagrams

• api, Api, IPA

Latin

Adjective

pia

1. nominative feminine singular of pius
2. nominative neuter plural of pius
3. accusative neuter plural of pius
4. vocative feminine singular of pius
5. nominative neuter plural of pius

piā

1. ablative feminine singular of pius

References

• PIA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Pipil

Etymology

From Proto-Nahuan *piya, from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pura. Compare Classical Nahuatl piya ‎(“to keep, to protect”)

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ˈpija/
• (Tacuba) IPA^(key): /ˈpja/

Verb

-pia

1. (transitive) to have, to possess, to keep

   Ini kunet kipia miak awilti‎

   This kid has many toys

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese pia, from Latin pīla ‎(“mortar”).

Noun

pia f (plural pias)

1. sink
2. basin

Etymology 2

Verb

pia

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of piar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of piar

Spanish

Verb

pia

1. (Latin America) Informal second-person singular (voseo) affirmative imperative form of piar.

Swahili

Adverb

pia

1. also
2. all (used with -ote for emphasis)