cria

See also: CRIA and cría

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cría (“kid; pup; cria”).

Noun

cria (plural crias)

1. A young South American camelid (llama, vicuna, guanaco or alpaca).

Anagrams

• ACIR, AICR, CAIR, CIRA, Cira, arci, cair

---

Catalan

Etymology

From criar (“to raise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkɾi.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkɾi.a]

Noun

cria f (plural cries)

1. upbringing, raising
2. offspring
3. young (baby animal)

Further reading

• “cria” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cria”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “cria” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cria” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

---

Cornish

Verb

cria

1. to cry, to call
2. to call, to name

---

French

Verb

cria

1. third-person singular past historic of crier

Anagrams

• cari, cira

---

Old Irish

Verb

·cria

1. third-person singular present subjunctive conjunct of crenaid

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
·cria	·chria	·cria pronounced with /-ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

---

Portuguese

Etymology

From criar (“to rear; to raise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾi.ɐ/

Noun

cria f (plural crias)

1. young; offspring (a young animal, especially one that still depends on its mother)
2. (familiar) kid; young'un (a person’s son or daughter)
3. someone who is raised by a family but is not their biological child; a ward or an adoptee
4. (agriculture) livestock (farm animals being raised)

   Synonym: criação

Verb

cria

1. Template:pt-verb-form-of

---

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾja/ [ˈkɾja]

Verb

cria

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