aria

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

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.ɹi.ə/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑːɹi.ə

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.

Derived terms

• arialike

Translations

type of musical piece

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

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

• Czech: árie (cs) f
• Danish: arie (da) c
• Esperanto: ario
• Finnish: aaria (fi)
• French: aria (fr) f
• Galician: aria (gl) f
• Gallurese: aria f
• Georgian: არია (aria)
• German: Arie (de) f
• Greek: άρια (el) f (ária)
• Hungarian: ária (hu)
• Indonesian: aria (id)
• Italian: aria (it) f
• Japanese: アリア (ja) (aria), 詠唱 (ja) (えいしょう, eishō)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: arya (ku) f

• Latvian: ārija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: arija f
• Malay: aria
• Manx: aria f
• Maori: āria
• Polish: aria (pl) f
• Portuguese: ária (pt) f
• Romanian: arie (ro) f
• Russian: а́рия (ru) f (árija)
• Sardinian:

  Logudorese: àera f

• Sassarese: aria f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: а̑рија f

  Roman: ȃrija (sh) f

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

Anagrams

• Aari, Arai, RIAA, Raia

Asturian

Adjective

aria

1. feminine singular of ariu

Corsican

Alternative forms

• ariu

Etymology

From Latin aer, borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr). Cognates include Italian aria and French air.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaria/
• Hyphenation: a‧ri‧a
• Rhymes: -aria

Noun

aria f (plural arie)

1. air
2. (music) aria, song

References

• “aria, ariu” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa
• Mathée Giacomo-Marcellesi (1997) Corse, LINCOM, →ISBN, page 3

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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian aria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ʁja/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

aria f (plural arias)

1. (music) aria

Further reading

• “aria”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /aˈria/ [aˈri.a]
• Syllabification: a‧ri‧a

Noun

aria (plural aria-aria)

1. (music) aria (a type of musical piece written typically for a solo voice)

Further reading

• “aria” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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/

• Audio (l'aria):

  (file)

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -arja
• 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

• 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
• → Esperanto: ario
• → 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 (ariä)
• → Latvian: ārija
• → Lithuanian: arija
• → Malay: aria
  • Indonesian: aria
• → Maori: āria
• → Mongolian: ари (ari)
• → Northern Kurdish: arya
• → Polish: aria
• → Portuguese: ária
• → Romanian: arie
• → Russian: а́рия (árija)
• → Sardinian: àera
• → Sassarese: aria
• → Sicilian: aria
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: а̑рија

  Latin script: ȃrija

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

Anagrams

• arai, raia

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

Further reading

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

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian aria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.rja/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -arja
• Syllabification: a‧ria

Noun

aria f

1. (music) aria

Declension

Declension of aria

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

Related terms

noun

• arieta
• arietka
• arietta

Further reading

• aria in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• aria in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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

Saaroa

Alternative forms

• ariia

Noun

aria

1. axe

Sicilian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɾja/
• Hyphenation: à‧ria

Noun

aria f

1. (non trisyllabic) Alternative form of ària

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɾja/ [ˈa.ɾja]
• Rhymes: -aɾja
• Syllabification: a‧ria

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian aria.

Noun

aria f (plural arias)

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

Descendants

• → Tagalog: arya

Etymology 2

Noun

aria f (plural arias)

1. female equivalent of ario (“Aryan”)

Adjective

aria

1. feminine singular of ario

Further reading

• “aria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Swedish

Noun

aria c

1. an aria

   sjunga arior

   sing arias

Declension

Declension of aria

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	aria	arias
	definite	arian	arians
plural	indefinite	arior	ariors
	definite	ariorna	ariornas

Descendants

• → Finnish: aaria

References

• aria in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• aria in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• aria in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)