chia

See also: Chia and chía

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chía, from Classical Nahuatl chiyan (“seed of the chia plant”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃiː.ə/
• Rhymes: -iːə

Noun

chia (countable and uncountable, plural chias)

1. A Mexican sage grown for its edible seeds, .
2. , a sage with similar seeds, native to the southwestern US and northwestern Mexico.

Translations

Salvia hispanica

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 奇亞籽／奇亚籽 (qíyàzǐ)

• Czech: šalvěj hispánská f
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• Finnish: chia
• Hungarian: chia, azték zsálya
• Portuguese: chia (pt) f, sálvia hispânica f

Salvia columbariae

• Cahuilla: pasal
• Cupeño: paṣhal
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• Czech: šalvěj (cs) f
• Finnish: Salvia columbariae

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 芡歐鼠尾草／芡欧鼠尾草, ^{(please verify)} 芡欧鼠尾草 (qiàn'ōu shǔwěicǎo)

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• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} chía (es) f

Anagrams

• AHCI, Achi, chai

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Classical Nahuatl

Noun

chia (inanimate)

1. Obsolete spelling of chiyan.

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Esperanto

Determiner

chia

1. H-system spelling of ĉia

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French

Verb

chia

1. third-person singular past historic of chier

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Min Nan

For pronunciation and definitions of chia – see 遮 (“here”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 遮).

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Portuguese

Verb

chia

1. Template:pt-verb-form-of

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Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *ciir ~ *ciər (“to cut up”); cognate with Khmer ចៀរ (ciə, “to slice, trim”) and Bahnar tơjêr (“to cut into large flat pieces”).

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕiə˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕiə˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ciə˧˧]

Verb

chia

1. (arithmetic) to divide

   chia (cho)

   (to be) divided by

   chia hết cho

   to be divisible by

2. to distribute or share (something among a group of people)
3. (grammar) to conjugate

Derived terms

Derived terms

• chia cắt
• chia sẻ
• chia tách
• phân chia