hiya

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English

Etymology 1

Shortened from how are you?, with influence from hi.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Interjection

hiya

  1. An informal greeting, hi, hello.
    Hiya, love, how's you?
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Alternative forms

Interjection

hiya

  1. (martial arts) Said as a limb is swung in attack.

Cebuano

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: hi‧ya

Interjection

hiya

  1. giddyup
  2. the shout accompanying an attack; kiai

Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *heyaq, from Proto-Austronesian *Seyaq.[1] Also possibly from Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 2 should be a valid language, etymology language or family code; the value "nan-hok" is not valid. See WT:LOL, WT:LOL/E and WT:LOF. according to Chan-Yap (1980).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

hiya

  1. shame; a painful feeling of having done something wrong, improper, or silly.
  2. disgrace; anything that causes shame
  3. humiliation
  4. embarassment
  5. dishonor, ignominy
  6. reproach; a cause of blame of disgrace.

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary: *Seyaq
  2. ^ Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980) “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics‎[1], volume B, number 71 (PDF), Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University.

Waray-Waray

Pronunciation

Pronoun

hiya (third person personal pronoun, objective and nominative case, common gender)

  1. him
  2. her
  3. he
  4. she
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