miya

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See also: Miya and miyã

English

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Etymology

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From Japanese (みや) (miya).

Noun

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miya (plural miyas or miya)

  1. (obsolete) A Japanese shrine.
    • 1878, N. McLeod, Epitome of the Ancient History of Japan, page 52:
      In the great matsuris or religious festivals [] the Samurais' wives and families may be seen holding these festivals at the miyas where the harlots worship and mixing freely in the crowd amongst them.

Anagrams

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Bura

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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mìya

  1. mother

References

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Chickasaw

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Alternative forms

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Verb

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miya (active)

  1. to say about oneself
  2. to mean
  3. they say (used at the end of phrases when telling traditional accounts/stories)

Inflection

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Hausa

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Tuwon shinkafa da miyar taushe. (Rice porridge with sorrel stew.)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /mí.jàː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [mɪ́.jàː]

Noun

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miyā̀ f (possessed form miyàr̃)

  1. a kind of sauce or stew made with various meats and vegetables, eaten alongside tuwo

Japanese

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Romanization

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miya

  1. Rōmaji transcription of みや

Kamba

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Pronoun

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miya

  1. he or she

Masbatenyo

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Noun

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miyà

  1. cat

Surigaonon

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Noun

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miyá

  1. cat

Turkish

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Pontic Greek μυία (myía).

Noun

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miya

  1. (dialect, Rize) small fly (animal)
    Synonym: kör sinek

Etymology 2

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Unknown.

Adjective

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miya

  1. (dialect, Çorum) lazy

References

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miya”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982

Uzbek

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *bẹńi (brain).

Noun

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miya (plural miyalar)

  1. (anatomy) brain

Declension

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Wandala

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Pronoun

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míyà

  1. we (inclusive)

See also

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  • ŋre (we) (exclusive)

References

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  • Frajzyngier, Zygmunt (2012) “miya”, in A Grammar of Wandala, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN

Wanyi

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Noun

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miya

  1. snake

References

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  • Mary Laughren, Rob Pensalfini, Tom Mylne, Accounting for verb-initial order in an Australian language, in Verb First: On the syntax of verb-initial languages (2005)