aria

See also: Aria, ARIA, ária, aría, ària, Ária, and -aria

English

Etymology

From Italian aria, metathesis from Latin āerem, accusative of āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”). Doublet of air.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.ɹɪə/

Noun

aria (plural arias or arie)

1. (music) A musical piece written typically for a solo voice with orchestral accompaniment in an opera or cantata.

Translations

type of musical piece

• Afrikaans: aria, arias pl
• Arabic: نَغَم‎ m (naḡam)
• Armenian: մեներգ (hy) (menerg)
• Bulgarian: а́рия (bg) (árija)
• Catalan: ària (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 詠嘆調 (zh), 咏叹调 (zh) (yǒngtàndiào), 唱段 (zh) (chàngduàn), (North China, Yuan dynasty) 北曲 (zh) (běiqǔ)

• Czech: árie (cs) f
• Danish: arie (da) c
• Finnish: aaria (fi)
• French: aria (fr) f
• Galician: aria (gl) f
• Gallurese: aria
• Georgian: არია (aria)
• German: Arie (de) f
• Greek: άρια (el) f (ária)
• Hungarian: ária (hu)
• Indonesian: aria (id)
• Interlingue: arie

• Italian: aria (it) f
• Japanese: アリア (aria), 詠唱 (えいしょう, eishō)
• Kurdish: arya‎ (ku) f (arya)
• Latvian: ārija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: arija f
• Malay: aria
• Maori: āria
• Polish: aria (pl) f
• Portuguese: ária (pt) f
• Romanian: arie (ro)
• Russian: а́рия (ru) f (árija)
• Sardinian:

  Logudorese: àera

• Sassarese: aria
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: арија f

  Roman: arija (sh) f

• Slovene: arija f
• Spanish: aria (es) f
• Swedish: aria (sv) c
• Tagalog: arya

Anagrams

• Aari, Arai, RIAA, Raia

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Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin āērea or āēre, from āēr.

Noun

aria f

1. air
2. appearance
   • Matteo Bartoli, Il Dalmatico :

     L'aria de nuát no stói bun.

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French

Etymology

From Italian aria

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ʁja/

Noun

aria f (plural arias)

1. (music) aria

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Italian

Etymology

Metathesis from Latin āera, Greek-type accusative of āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”). See also aere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.rja/, [ˈäːr̺jä]

• Audio (l'aria)

  (file)

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: à‧ria

Noun

aria f (plural arie)

1. air
2. look, appearance, countenance
3. (plural only) airs
4. wind (all senses)
5. (music) aria, song

Related terms

Related terms

• aerare
• aere
• aereo

• aria-acqua
• aria-aria
• aria-terra

• arieggiare
• arioso
• darsi delle arie

Descendants

• → Afrikaans: aria
• → Asturian: aria
• → Azerbaijani: ariya
• → Belarusian: арыя (aryja)
• → Bulgarian: ария (arija)
• → Catalan: ària
• → Czech: árie
• → Danish: arie
• → Dutch: arie
• → English: aria
• → Estonian: aaria
• → French: aria
• → Galician: aria
• → Gallurese: aria
• → Irish: áiria
• → Georgian: არია (aria)
• → German: Arie
• → Greek: άρια (ária)
• → Hungarian: ária
• → Japanese: アリア (aria)
• → Kazakh: ария (arïya)
• → Kurdish: arya
• → Latvian: ārija
• → Lithuanian: arija
• → Malay: aria
  • Indonesian: aria
• → Maori: āria
• → Mongolian: ари (ari)
• → Polish: aria
• → Portuguese: ária
• → Romanian: arie
• → Russian: ария (arija)
• → Sardinian: àera
• → Sassarese: aria
• → Sicilian: aria
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: арија

  Latin: arija

• → Slovene: arija
• → Spanish: aria
  • → Tagalog: arya
• → Slovak: ária
• → Swedish: aria
  • → Finnish: aaria
• → Turkish: arya
• → Ukrainian: арія (arija)
• → Uzbek: ariya

Anagrams

• arai

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Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records kuarria as an equivalent of English say and speak in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɾia/

Verb

aria (infinitive kwaria)

1. to speak

   Njaragia Gĩkũyũ. - I (usually) speak Kikuyu language.

Derived terms

(Nouns)

• mwario class 3, rwario class 11

Related terms

• mwarĩrie class 3

See also

• kwĩra, kuuga

References

• Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 360. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

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Polish

Etymology

From Italian aria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈarʲ.ja/

• audio

  (file)

Noun

aria f

1. (music) aria

Declension

declension of aria

	singular	plural
nominative	aria	arie
genitive	arii	arii/aryj
dative	arii	ariom
accusative	arię	arie
instrumental	arią	ariami
locative	arii	ariach
vocative	ario	arie

Further reading

• aria in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Romansch

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”).

Noun

aria f

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) air

Synonyms

• (Sutsilvan) leer
• (Puter, Vallader) ajer

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Spanish

Noun

aria f (plural arias)

1. aria

Descendants

• → Tagalog: arya

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Swedish

Noun

aria c

1. an aria

Declension

Declension of aria
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	aria	arian	arior	ariorna
Genitive	arias	arians	ariors	ariornas

Descendants

• → Finnish: aaria