fia

See also: fià, fía, Fia, and FIA

Catalan

Verb

fia

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Esperanto

Etymology

From fi- (“shameful, immoral, corrupt, dissolute, dirty, slutty”) +‎ -a (adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): [ˈfia]
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: fi‧a

Adjective

fia (accusative singular fian, plural fiaj, accusative plural fiajn)

1. shameful, ignoble

   La ekzekutisto, spite lia fia metio, estis bonkora viro. ― The executioner, despite his shameful trade, was a kind man.

2. naughty

   Nudpugan pugfrapadon la fiaj knabinetoj ricevis. ― A bare bottom spanking [is what] the naughty little girls got.

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Ewe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪæ/

Noun

fia (plural fiawo)

1. king

Verb

fia

1. to burn
2. to demonstrate
3. to show
4. to teach

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French

Pronunciation

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Verb

fia

1. third-person singular past historic of fier

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Hungarian

Etymology

From the fi variant of fiú (“son”) +‎ -a (possessive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfijɒ]
• Hyphenation: fia

Noun

fia

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of fiú

   A fia egy másik városban él. ― His/her son lives in another city.

Usage notes

• Fia is only used in the sense of one’s son, while one’s boyfriend is fiúja.

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	fia	—
accusative	fiát	—
dative	fiának	—
instrumental	fiával	—
causal-final	fiáért	—
translative	fiává	—
terminative	fiáig	—
essive-formal	fiaként	—
essive-modal	fiául	—
inessive	fiában	—
superessive	fián	—
adessive	fiánál	—
illative	fiába	—
sublative	fiára	—
allative	fiához	—
elative	fiából	—
delative	fiáról	—
ablative	fiától	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	fiáé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	fiáéi	—

For the plural form (“someone’s sons”), see fiai.

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Irish

Alternative forms

• fiadh (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fʲiə]

Etymology 1

From Old Irish fíad (“wild animals, game, especially deer”), from fid m (“wood”).

Noun

fia m (genitive singular fia, nominative plural fianna)

1. deer

Declension

Declension of fia

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative fia fianna Vocative a fhia a fhianna Genitive fia fianna Dative fia fianna

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an fia na fianna Genitive an fhia na bhfianna Dative leis an bhfia don fhia leis na fianna

Derived terms

• fia bairr m (“stag”)
• fia beannach m (“antlered deer, stag”)
• fia buí m (“fallow deer”)
• fia fionn m, fia bán m (“fallow deer”)
• fia mór m (“elk”)
• fia odhar m (“roe deer”)
• fia rua m (“red deer”)
• fia-chú m (“deerhound”)
• fiach fianna m (“deer-stalking”)
• fiafheoil f (“venison”)
• fiagaí fianna m (“deer-stalker”)
• fialann f (“deerpark”)
• fiaphoc m (“buck”)
• fiasheilg f, seilg fianna f (“(act of) stag-hunting”)

 

Adjective

fia

1. wild

Derived terms

• diasa fia m (“corn-cockle”)
• fia- (“wild; large, outsize”)

 

Etymology 2

From Old Irish fíad (“uncultivated land, a waste spot; a territory, land”).

Noun

fia m (genitive singular fia)

1. waste, wilderness
2. land, territory

Declension

Declension of fia

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative fia Vocative a fhia Genitive fia Dative fia

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an fia Genitive an fhia Dative leis an bhfia don fhia

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
fia	fhia	bhfia
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fia”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 fíad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 fíad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “fia”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “fia”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

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Portuguese

Etymology 1

Eye dialect spelling. Masculine: fio.

Noun

fia f (plural fias, masculine fio, masculine plural fios)

1. Eye dialect spelling of filha.

   Synonym: fía

Etymology 2

Non-lemma forms.

Verb

fia

1. Template:pt-verb-form-of

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• fieu (Rumantsch Grischun)
• fiug (Sursilvan)
• fiac (Sutsilvan)
• fi (Surmiran)
• fö (Puter, Vallader)

Etymology

From Latin focus (“hearth, fireplace”).

Noun

fia m

1. (Sutsilvan) fire

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Samoan

Verb

fia

1. want to do something

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Spanish

Verb

fia

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

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Swahili

Verb

-fia (infinitive kufia)

1. Applicative form of -fa: to die (for a cause)
2. (idiomatic) to love someone deeply

Conjugation

Conjugation of -fia
Positive present -nafia Subjunctive -fie Negative -fii Imperative singular fia
Infinitives
Positive kufia Negative kutofia
Imperatives
Singular fia Plural fieni
Tensed forms
Habitual hufia Positive past positive subject concord + -lifia Negative past negative subject concord + -kufia
Positive present (positive subject concord + -nafia) Singular Plural 1st person ninafia/nafia tunafia 2nd person unafia mnafia 3rd person m-wa(I/II) anafia wanafia other classes positive subject concord + -nafia
Negative present (negative subject concord + -fii) Singular Plural 1st person sifii hatufii 2nd person hufii hamfii 3rd person m-wa(I/II) hafii hawafii other classes negative subject concord + -fii
Positive future positive subject concord + -tafia Negative future negative subject concord + -tafia
Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -fie) Singular Plural 1st person nifie tufie 2nd person ufie mfie 3rd person m-wa(I/II) afie wafie other classes positive subject concord + -fie
Negative subjunctive positive subject concord + -sifie Positive present conditional positive subject concord + -ngefia Negative present conditional positive subject concord + -singefia Positive past conditional positive subject concord + -ngalifia Negative past conditional positive subject concord + -singalifia
Gnomic (positive subject concord + -afia) Singular Plural 1st person nafia twafia 2nd person wafia mwafia 3rd person m-wa(I/II) afia wafia m-mi(III/IV) wafia yafia ji-ma(V/VI) lafia yafia ki-vi(VII/VIII) chafia vyafia n(IX/X) yafia zafia u(XI) wafia see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) kwafia pa(XVI) pafia mu(XVIII) mwafia
Perfect positive subject concord + -mefia "Already" positive subject concord + -meshafia "Not yet" negative subject concord + -jafia "If/When" positive subject concord + -kifia "If not" positive subject concord + -sipofia Consecutive kafia / positive subject concord + -kafia Consecutive subjunctive positive subject concord + -kafie
Object concord (indicative positive) Singular Plural 1st person -nifia -tufia 2nd person -kufia -wafia/-kufieni/-wafieni 3rd person m-wa(I/II) -mfia -wafia m-mi(III/IV) -ufia -ifia ji-ma(V/VI) -lifia -yafia ki-vi(VII/VIII) -kifia -vifia n(IX/X) -ifia -zifia u(XI) -ufia see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kufia pa(XVI) -pafia mu(XVIII) -mufia Reflexive -jifia
Relative forms General positive (positive subject concord + (object concord) + -fia- + relative marker) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -fiaye -fiao m-mi(III/IV) -fiao -fiayo ji-ma(V/VI) -fialo -fiayo ki-vi(VII/VIII) -fiacho -fiavyo n(IX/X) -fiayo -fiazo u(XI) -fiao see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -fiako pa(XVI) -fiapo mu(XVIII) -fiamo Other forms (subject concord + tense marker + relative marker + (object concord) + -fia) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -yefia -ofia m-mi(III/IV) -ofia -yofia ji-ma(V/VI) -lofia -yofia ki-vi(VII/VIII) -chofia -vyofia n(IX/X) -yofia -zofia u(XI) -ofia see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kofia pa(XVI) -pofia mu(XVIII) -mofia
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.