harpia

See also: Harpia, hárpia, harpía, and harpią

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἅρπυιᾰ (hárpuiă).

Pronunciation

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

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Noun

harpia f (plural harpies)

1. harpy (winged monster)
2. harpy (shrewish woman)

Further reading

• “harpia”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Galician

Noun

harpia f (plural harpias, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of harpía

Further reading

• “harpia”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin harpyia, from Ancient Greek ἅρπυιᾰ (hárpuiă).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxar.pja/
• Rhymes: -arpja
• Syllabification: har‧pia

Noun

harpia f

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) harpy (fabulous winged monster with the face of a woman)
2. (derogatory) harpy (obnoxious, shrewish woman)

   Synonyms: baba-chłop, babochłop, chłopczyca, chłopobaba, dragon, herod-baba, hetera, kobieton, megiera

3. harpy eagle

   Synonym: harpia wielka

Declension

Declension of harpia

	singular	plural
nominative	harpia	harpie
genitive	harpii	harpii/harpij (archaic)
dative	harpii	harpiom
accusative	harpię	harpie
instrumental	harpią	harpiami
locative	harpii	harpiach
vocative	harpio	harpie

Further reading

• “harpia”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[1] (in Polish)

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Harpyia, from Ancient Greek ἅρπυιᾰ (hárpuiă, literally “snatcher”), from ἁρπάζω (harpázō, “to snatch; seize”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aʁˈpi.ɐ/ [ahˈpi.ɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aʁˈpi.ɐ/ [ahˈpi.ɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /aɾˈpi.ɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /aʁˈpi.ɐ/ [aχˈpi.ɐ]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /aɻˈpi.ɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aʁˈpi.a/ [ahˈpi.a]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐɾˈpi.ɐ/

• Rhymes: -iɐ

Noun

harpia f (plural harpias)

1. (mythology) harpy
2. synonym of uiraçu

Further reading

• “harpia”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “harpia” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “harpia”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “harpia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026