dia

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Ambonese Malay[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Malay dia.

Pronoun[edit]

dia

  1. he, she (3rd-person singular personal pronoun)

Bavarian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • dir (German spelling)
  • da (unstressed form)

Etymology[edit]

Cognate with German dir.

Pronunciation[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

dia

  1. you (dative, singular)

See also[edit]

Bavarian personal pronouns
nominative accusative dative
stressed unstressed stressed unstressed stressed unstressed
1st person singular i — mi — mia (mir) ma
2nd person singular
(informal) 		du — di — dia (dir) da
2nd person singular
(formal) 		Sie — Eahna — Eahna —
3rd person singular m er a eahm 'n eahm 'n
n es, des 's des 's
f se, de 's se 's ihr —
1st person plural mia (mir) ma uns — uns —
2nd person plural eß, ihr — enk, eich — enk, eich —
3rd person plural se 's eahna — eahna —

Catalan[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *dia, from Latin diēs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (“heaven, sky”). Compare Gascon dia and Spanish dia.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

dia m (plural dies)

  1. day (period of 24 hours)
    • 2011, Tobies Grimaltos Mascarós, Idees i paraules: Una filosofia de la vida quotidiana, Universitat de València, →ISBN, page 41:
      Avui és un dia normal. És un dia en el qual no res (m')ha passat especialment remarcable.
      Today is a normal day. It's a day in which nothing especially remarkable happened (to me).
  2. day (the part of the day between sunrise and sunset)
    Antonym: nit
    • 2011, Cinto Niqui Espinosa, Fonaments i usos de tecnologia audiovisual digital, Editorial UOC, →ISBN, page 362:
      En ona llarga durant el dia, a Catalunya, es poden escoltar les emissores Ràdio Montecarlo (RMC), als 216 kHz o Ràdio Alger, als 252 kHz.
      In long wave during the day, in Catalonia, you can hear the broadcasters Ràdio Montecarlo (RMC) at 216 kHz or Ràdio Alger, at 252 kHz.

Synonyms[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

See also[edit]

Further reading[edit]

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Clipping of diapositief.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

dia m (plural dia's, diminutive diaatje n)

  1. (photography) slide
    Synonym: diapositief

Derived terms[edit]

Esperanto[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From dio +‎ -a.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈdia]
  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Hyphenation: di‧a

Adjective[edit]

dia (accusative singular dian, plural diaj, accusative plural diajn)

  1. godly, of or pertaining to God or gods, divine

Finnish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Shortened from diapositiivi, probably after the international example.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈdiɑ/, [ˈdiɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -iɑ
  • Syllabification(key): di‧a

Noun[edit]

dia

  1. (photography) slide

Declension[edit]

Inflection of dia (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative dia diat
genitive dian diojen
partitive diaa dioja
illative diaan dioihin
singular plural
nominative dia diat
accusative nom. dia diat
gen. dian
genitive dian diojen
diainrare
partitive diaa dioja
inessive diassa dioissa
elative diasta dioista
illative diaan dioihin
adessive dialla dioilla
ablative dialta dioilta
allative dialle dioille
essive diana dioina
translative diaksi dioiksi
instructive — dioin
abessive diatta dioitta
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of dia (type kala)
first-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative diani diani
accusative nom. diani diani
gen. diani
genitive diani diojeni
diainirare
partitive diaani diojani
inessive diassani dioissani
elative diastani dioistani
illative diaani dioihini
adessive diallani dioillani
ablative dialtani dioiltani
allative dialleni dioilleni
essive dianani dioinani
translative diakseni dioikseni
instructive — —
abessive diattani dioittani
comitative — dioineni
second-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative diasi diasi
accusative nom. diasi diasi
gen. diasi
genitive diasi diojesi
diaisirare
partitive diaasi diojasi
inessive diassasi dioissasi
elative diastasi dioistasi
illative diaasi dioihisi
adessive diallasi dioillasi
ablative dialtasi dioiltasi
allative diallesi dioillesi
essive dianasi dioinasi
translative diaksesi dioiksesi
instructive — —
abessive diattasi dioittasi
comitative — dioinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative diamme diamme
accusative nom. diamme diamme
gen. diamme
genitive diamme diojemme
diaimmerare
partitive diaamme diojamme
inessive diassamme dioissamme
elative diastamme dioistamme
illative diaamme dioihimme
adessive diallamme dioillamme
ablative dialtamme dioiltamme
allative diallemme dioillemme
essive dianamme dioinamme
translative diaksemme dioiksemme
instructive — —
abessive diattamme dioittamme
comitative — dioinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative dianne dianne
accusative nom. dianne dianne
gen. dianne
genitive dianne diojenne
diainnerare
partitive diaanne diojanne
inessive diassanne dioissanne
elative diastanne dioistanne
illative diaanne dioihinne
adessive diallanne dioillanne
ablative dialtanne dioiltanne
allative diallenne dioillenne
essive diananne dioinanne
translative diaksenne dioiksenne
instructive — —
abessive diattanne dioittanne
comitative — dioinenne
third-person possessor
singular plural
nominative diansa diansa
accusative nom. diansa diansa
gen. diansa
genitive diansa diojensa
diainsarare
partitive diaansa diojaan
diojansa
inessive diassaan
diassansa 		dioissaan
dioissansa
elative diastaan
diastansa 		dioistaan
dioistansa
illative diaansa dioihinsa
adessive diallaan
diallansa 		dioillaan
dioillansa
ablative dialtaan
dialtansa 		dioiltaan
dioiltansa
allative dialleen
diallensa 		dioilleen
dioillensa
essive dianaan
dianansa 		dioinaan
dioinansa
translative diakseen
diaksensa 		dioikseen
dioiksensa
instructive — —
abessive diattaan
diattansa 		dioittaan
dioittansa
comitative — dioineen
dioinensa

Synonyms[edit]

Compounds[edit]

See also[edit]

Further reading[edit]

French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Interjection[edit]

dia

  1. yah!, cry to make (a) working animal(s) etc. advance or turn left
    Antonym: hue

Derived terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

Guinea-Bissau Creole[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Portuguese dia. Cognate with Kabuverdianu dia.

Noun[edit]

dia

  1. day (period of 24 hours)
  2. day (period between sunrise and sunset)

Hungarian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Ellipsis of diapozitív (“diapositive”), after the German Diapositiv.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

dia (plural diák)

  1. (photography) slide, diapositive (transparent plate used with a projector for projecting images)

Declension[edit]

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative dia diák
accusative diát diákat
dative diának diáknak
instrumental diával diákkal
causal-final diáért diákért
translative diává diákká
terminative diáig diákig
essive-formal diaként diákként
essive-modal — —
inessive diában diákban
superessive dián diákon
adessive diánál diáknál
illative diába diákba
sublative diára diákra
allative diához diákhoz
elative diából diákból
delative diáról diákról
ablative diától diáktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		diáé diáké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		diáéi diákéi
Possessive forms of dia
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. diám diáim
2nd person sing. diád diáid
3rd person sing. diája diái
1st person plural diánk diáink
2nd person plural diátok diáitok
3rd person plural diájuk diáik

Derived terms[edit]

Compound words

Further reading[edit]

  • dia in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2023)

Iban[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Adverb[edit]

dia

  1. there (not very far from the speaker)

Indonesian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Malay dia, cognate with ia, -nya, from Proto-Malayic *ia, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(si-)ia, from Proto-Austronesian *(si-)ia.

Pronunciation[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

dia

  1. he
    Dia sedang kelaparan.
    He is starving now.
  2. she
    Dia suka musik pop.
    She loves pop music.

Synonyms[edit]

Irish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Irish día (“god”), from Proto-Celtic *dēwos (compare Welsh duw), from Proto-Indo-European *deywós (compare Sanskrit देव (deva), Latin deus, Old English Tīw (“Germanic god of heroic glory”)).

Noun[edit]

dia m (genitive singular dé, nominative plural déithe)

  1. a god
Declension[edit]
Declension of dia

Irregular

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative dia déithe
Vocative a dhia a dhéithe
Genitive dé déithe
Dative dia déithe
déithibh (archaic, dialectal)

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an dia na déithe
Genitive an dé na ndéithe
Dative leis an dia

don dia

leis na déithe
leis na déithibh (archaic, dialectal)
  • Alternative vocative singular: dé
  • Archaic nominative plural: dée
  • Alternative genitive plural: dia
  • Alternative dative plural: déibh
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
  • Dia (“God”) (as a proper noun)

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old Irish día (“day”), from Proto-Celtic *dīyos (compare Welsh dydd), from Proto-Indo-European *dyew-.

Noun[edit]

dia

  1. (literary) day
Derived terms[edit]
  • Dé (“on (a day of the week)”)
  • dialann (“diary”)

Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
dia dhia ndia
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading[edit]

Italian[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Adjective[edit]

dia f

  1. feminine singular of dio

Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

dia

  1. inflection of dare:
    1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Anagrams[edit]

Kabuverdianu[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Portuguese dia.

Noun[edit]

dia

  1. day

Kituba[edit]

Verb[edit]

dia

  1. to eat

Latin[edit]

Adjective[edit]

dia

  1. inflection of dius:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective[edit]

diā

  1. ablative feminine singular of dius

Lombard[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin Diana, Roman goddess of the hunt and wild animals.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (Western, Milanese) IPA(key): /ˈdia/
  • Hyphenation: di‧a

Noun[edit]

dia m (feminine deja, masculine plural dia, feminine plural deje) (New Lombard Orthography)

  1. god, deity
    Synonym: dee

Malagasy[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Malay liar.

Adjective[edit]

dia

  1. wild
    Synonym: haolo

Etymology 2[edit]

Possibly connected with Swahili njia.

Noun[edit]

dia

  1. step
  2. journey
  3. mark, track, imprint

Malay[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Cognate with ia, -nya, from Proto-Malayic *ia, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(si-)ia, from Proto-Austronesian *(si-)ia.

Pronunciation[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

dia (Jawi spelling دي‎)

  1. he, she, it

See also[edit]

Malay personal pronouns
singular plural
1st person standard saya / ساي‎
aku/ku- / اکو‎ / كو-‎ (informal/towards God)
-ku / -كو‎ (informal possessive)
hamba / همبا‎ (dated) 		kami / کامي‎ (exclusive)
kita orang / كيت اورڠ‎ (informal exclusive)
kita / کيت‎ (inclusive)
royal beta / بيتا‎
2nd person standard kamu / کامو‎
anda / اندا‎ (formal)
engkau/kau- / اڠکاو‎/ كاو-‎ (informal/towards God)
awak / اوق‎ (friendly/older towards younger)
-mu / -مو‎ (possessive) 		kalian / کاليان‎
kamu semua / كامو سموا‎
kau orang / كاو اورڠ‎ (informal)
royal tuanku / توانكو‎
3rd person standard dia / دي‎
ia / اي‎
beliau / بلياو‎ (honorific)
-nya / -ڽ‎ (possessive) 		mereka / مريک‎
dia orang / دي اورڠ‎ (informal)
royal baginda / بݢيندا‎

Mandarin[edit]

Romanization[edit]

dia

  1. Nonstandard spelling of diǎ.

Usage notes[edit]

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Middle Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Univerbation of di (“of/from”) +‎ a (“his/her/its/their”)

Pronunciation[edit]

Determiner[edit]

dia (‘his’ and ‘its’ trigger lenition, ‘her’ triggers /h/-prothesis, ‘their’ triggers eclipsis)

  1. of/from his/her/its/their
    • c. 1000, The Tale of Mac Da Thó's Pig, section 1, published in Irische Teste, vol. 1 (1880), edited by Ernst Windisch:
      Ailbe ainm in chon, ocus lan hEriu dia aurdarcus.
      Ailbe was the dog’s name, and Ireland was full of his fame.

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Verb[edit]

dia

  1. simple past and past participle of die

Occitan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Occitan dia.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Audio (Gascon)(file)

Noun[edit]

dia m (plural dias)

  1. day

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • Patric Guilhemjoan, Diccionari elementari occitan-francés francés-occitan (gascon), 2005, Orthez, per noste, 2005, →ISBN, page 56.

Old Irish[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Univerbation of di (“of/from”) +‎ a (“his/her/its/their”)

Pronunciation[edit]

Determiner[edit]

dïa (‘his’ and ‘its’ trigger lenition, ‘her’ triggers /h/-prothesis, ‘their’ triggers eclipsis)

  1. of/from his/her/its/their
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 134d3
      Ɔ·riris-siu .i. ar·troídfe{a}-siu inna droch daíni, a Dǽ, dïa n‑anduch, air is fechtnach a n‑andach mani erthroítar húa Día.
      You will bind, i.e. you will restrain the evil men, O God, from their iniquity, for their iniquity is prosperous if they are not restrained by God.

Etymology 2[edit]

di (“of/from”) +‎ -a (relative pronoun)

Pronunciation[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

dïa·

  1. of/from whom/which

Conjunction[edit]

dïa

  1. (with preterite) when
  2. (with subjunctive, positive only) if
    Synonym: má

For quotations using this term, see Citations:dia.

Usage notes[edit]

The conjunction is followed by the appropriate dependent verbal form, applying the nasal mutation to it. Unlike modern Irish, no factual-counterfactual distinction exists in the use of má and dïa; they are completely interchangeable.

Descendants[edit]

  • Middle Irish: dia
    • Irish: dá
    • Manx: dy
    • Scottish Gaelic: nan

Etymology 3[edit]

Univerbation of do (“to/for”) +‎ a (“his/her/its/their”)

Pronunciation[edit]

Determiner[edit]

dïa (‘his’ and ‘its’ trigger lenition, ‘her’ triggers /h/-prothesis, ‘their’ triggers eclipsis)

  1. to/for his/her/its/their

For quotations using this term, see Citations:dia.

Etymology 4[edit]

do (“to/for”) +‎ -a (relative pronoun)

Pronunciation[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

dïa·

  1. to/for whom/which

Etymology 5[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

dia m

  1. Alternative spelling of día (“god”)

Further reading[edit]

Old Occitan[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Vulgar Latin *dia, from Latin diēs.

Noun[edit]

dia m or f

  1. day (period of 24 hours)

Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

Old Spanish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • dya (alternative spelling)

Etymology[edit]

From Vulgar Latin *dia, from Latin diēs, from Proto-Italic *djous, from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (“heaven, sky”). Compare Old Occitan dia and Old Galician-Portuguese dia.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

dia m (plural dias)

  1. day
    • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 4v.
      Qvádo lo ſopo labá al dia t́cero. q́ ſe ẏua priſo de ſos amẏgos. E fue trá Jacob. Andadura. vij. dias. e alcáçol en el móte de galaath.
      When Laban came to know on the third day that he was fleeing, he took his relatives and went after Jacob, walking seven days, and he overtook him on the hill of Gilead.

Antonyms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

Papiamentu[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Portuguese dia and Spanish día and Kabuverdianu dia.

Noun[edit]

dia

  1. day

Plautdietsch[edit]

Adjective[edit]

dia

  1. expensive, dear

Pom[edit]

Noun[edit]

dia

  1. water

References[edit]

  • The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)

Portuguese[edit]

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pt

Etymology[edit]

From Old Galician-Portuguese dia (“day”), from Vulgar Latin *dia, from Latin diēs (“day”), reformed from the accusative diem, from Proto-Italic *djēm, the accusative of *djous (“day, sky”), from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (“heaven, sky”).

Pronunciation[edit]

 

  • (Northeast Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈdi.a/
  • Rhymes: -iɐ
  • Hyphenation: di‧a

Noun[edit]

dia m (plural dias)

  1. day
    2. period between sunrise and sunset
      • 1572, Luís Vaz de Camões, Os Lusíadas, 5th canto:
        Trazia o Sol o dia celebrado / Em que tres Reis das partes do Oriente,
        The Sun brought the celebrated day / In which three Kings from the East,
    4. period from midnight to the following midnight
    6. period of 24 hours
      • 1572, Luís Vaz de Camões, Os Lusíadas, 5th canto:
        Mas logo ao outro dia ſeus parceiros / Todos nús, & da cor da eſcura treua,
        But just the other day his partners / All naked, & coloured as the dark darkness,
    8. (astronomy) rotational period of a planet
    10. (in phrases) date celebrating a particular thing, usually an event, profession or person
    11. (in phrases) a unspecified period of time either in the past or in the future

Quotations[edit]

Antonyms[edit]

  • (period of daylight): noite (“night”)

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

Adverb[edit]

dia (not comparable)

  1. occurring on the specified day of the month
    O evento ocorreu dia um de fevereiro. ― The event occurred February first.

Quotations[edit]

Scottish Gaelic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Irish día (“god”), from Proto-Celtic *dēwos (compare Welsh duw), from Proto-Indo-European *deywós (compare Sanskrit देव (deva), Latin deus, Old English Tīw (“Germanic god of heroic glory”)).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

dia m (genitive singular dè, plural diathan)

  1. god, deity

Derived terms[edit]

Mutation[edit]

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
dia dhia
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading[edit]

  • Edward Dwelly (1911), “dia”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 día”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Spanish[edit]

Noun[edit]

dia m (plural dias)

  1. Misspelling of día.
  2. Obsolete spelling of día

Sranan Tongo[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English deer.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

dia

  1. deer

Swedish[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Inherited from Old Swedish di, dia, from Proto-Germanic *dijōną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck, suckle”).

Verb[edit]

dia (present diar, preterite diade, supine diat, imperative dia)

  1. (intransitive) suck
  2. (transitive) suckle
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of dia (weak)
Active Passive
Infinitive dia dias
Supine diat diats
Imperative dia —
Imper. plural1 dien —
Present Past Present Past
Indicative diar diade dias diades
Ind. plural1 dia diade dias diades
Subjunctive2 die diade dies diades
Participles
Present participle diande
Past participle diad
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
See also[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Clipping of diabild.

Noun[edit]

dia c

  1. diapositive
Declension[edit]
Declension of dia 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative dia dian dior diorna
Genitive dias dians diors diornas

Further reading[edit]

Tolai[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • diat (when not preceding a verb)

Pronoun[edit]

dia

  1. they (many), them (many) (third-person plural pronoun)

Declension[edit]

Tolai personal pronouns
singular dual paucal plural
1st person exclusive iau amir
mir 		amital
mital 		avet
ave1
1st person inclusive - dor datal dat
da1
2nd person u amur
mur 		amutal
mutal 		avat
ava1
3rd person ia
i 		dir
di 		dital diat
dia1
1) The plural pronouns lose the final -t when preceding a verb.


Tswana[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

go dia

  1. to delay
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