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Translingual

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mia

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Miami.

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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Noun

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mia (uncountable)

  2. (classical studies) An ancient bluffing game played with dice.

Etymology 2

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Clipping of bulimia; intentionally formed to resemble the given name Mia as form of personification and coded language. Compare ana.

Noun

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mia (uncountable)

  2. (Internet slang) Bulimia nervosa.
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etymologically unrelated terms contianing "mia"

Anagrams

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Baba Malay

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Hokkien 命 (miā).

Noun

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mia

  1. destiny, fortune, luck, life

Particle

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mia

  1. possessive particle

Synonyms

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References

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  • Lee, Nala H. (2022), “mia”, in A Grammar of Modern Baba Malay, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 351

Bavarian

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Alternative forms

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  • mir (German spelling)
  • ma (unstressed form)

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Cognate with German mir.

Pronoun

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mia

  1. me (dative)

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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
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 —

Etymology 2

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Cognate with German wir.

Pronoun

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mia

  1. we

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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
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 —

Bola

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Pronoun

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mia

  1. first person plural exclusive

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Bola personal pronouns
Number Person Free Subject proclitic Object Suffix Oblique
Singular 1st iau a free pronoun nau
2nd ioe o vomu
3rd ia i -a vona
Dual 1st Exclusive maria miri free pronoun ne + free pronoun
Inclusive tarua tu
2nd marua muru
3rd rua ru
Paucal 1st Exclusive mateu mete
Inclusive teu te
2nd matou moto
3rd tou to
Plural 1st Exclusive mia mi
Inclusive hita si
2nd mua mu
3rd ria ri

Catalan

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Pronoun

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mia

  1. (archaic, poetic, Northern, Alghero) feminine singular of meu

Usage notes

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Outside of poetry, certain dialects and sayings, proverbs and set phrases, this form is archaic and is normally supplanted by meva and meua.

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Esperanto

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Etymology

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From mi (“I, me”) +‎ -a (possessive suffix).

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Determiner

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mia (accusative singular mian, plural miaj, accusative plural miajn)

  1. my, mine
    • 2025 September 29, Jorge Nogueras, “La plej mallonga tago”, in uea.facila‎[1], archived from the original on 12 December 2025:
      Nu, unu tagon oni vokis min por ke mi iru tuj al la malsanulejo, ĉar mia sesjara filino trafiĝis je terura trafik-akcidento.
      Well, one day they called me so that I go immediately to the hospital, because my six-year old daughter got caught in a terrible traffic accident.

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Esperanto personal pronouns
singular plural
nominative accusative possessive nominative accusative possessive
first person  mi  min  mia  ni  nin  nia
second
person 		formal  vi  vin  via  vi  vin  via
familiar1  ci  cin  cia
third
person 		masculine  li  lin  lia
feminine  ŝi  ŝin  ŝia
neuter  ĝi  ĝin  ĝia
gender-neutral2  ri
ŝli 		 rin
ŝlin 		 ria
ŝlia
reflexive  si  sin  sia  si  sin  sia
indefinite  oni  onin  onia  oni  onin  onia

1 The second-person familiar pronouns are rare.

2 The proposed gender-neutral third-person singular pronouns ri (rin, ria) and ŝli (ŝlin, ŝlia) are not widely used.

3 The proposed third-person feminine plural pronoun iŝi (iŝin, iŝia) is not widely used.

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Galician

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Verb

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mia

  1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of miar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

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Pronoun

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mia

  1. feminine singular of mio

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Mori Bawah

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Noun

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mia

  1. person

References

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  • The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar (2013, →ISBN, page 685

Neapolitan

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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mìa f (first person singular possessive)

  1. feminine singular of mìo

Pronoun

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mìa f (first person singular possessive)

  1. feminine singular of mìo

Northern Paiute

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Verb

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mia

  1. go

References

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  • Sven Liljeblad, Catherine S Fowler, Glenda Powell, Northern Paiute–Bannock Dictionary (2012, →ISBN (mia-)

Old Catalan

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Adjective

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mia

  1. feminine singular of meu

Portuguese

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Etymology

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -iɐ
  • Hyphenation: mi‧a

Verb

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mia

  1. inflection of miar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

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Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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mia

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of mie

Etymology 2

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Inherited from Latin agnella. Compare Aromanian njauã.

Alternative forms

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Noun

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mia f (plural miele, masculine equivalent miel)

  1. ewe lamb
Declension
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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative mia miaua miele mielele
genitive-dative miele mielei miele mielelor
vocative mia mielelor
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Romansh

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Adjective

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mia f (masculine mes)

  1. (possessive) my

Swahili

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Swahili numbers (edit)
1,000
 ←  90  ←  99 100 101  →  200  → 
10
    Cardinal: mia

Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic مِئَة (miʔa).[1]

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Numeral

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mia (invariable)

  1. hundred

Noun

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mia class V (plural mamia class VI)

  1. hundred

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References

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  1. ^ Baldi, Sergio (30 November 2020), Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten; 145), Leiden • Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 274-275 Nr. 2584

Tabaru

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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mia

  1. a monkey

References

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  • Edward A. Kotynski (1988), “Tabaru phonology and morphology”, in Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, volume 32, Summer Institute of Linguistics

Ternate

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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mia

  1. monkey

References

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  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Uneapa

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Etymology

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From Proto-Oceanic *mia, variant of *mian.

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Verb

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mia

  1. to dwell

Further reading

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  • Ross, Malcolm D. (2016), Andrew Pawley, editor, The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: Volume 5, People: body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, →OCLC; republished as Meredith Osmond, editor, (Please provide a date or year)

West Makian

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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mia

  1. (stative) to be good

Conjugation

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Conjugation of mia (stative verb)
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person timia mimia amia
2nd person nimia fimia
3rd person inanimate imia dimia
animate mamia
imperative —, mia —, mia

References

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  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎[6], Pacific linguistics

Wolio

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Etymology

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Compare Balantak mian.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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mia

  1. person, human being

References

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  • Anceaux, Johannes C. (1987), Wolio Dictionary (Wolio-English-Indonesian) / Kamus Bahasa Wolio (Wolio-Inggeris-Indonesia), Dordrecht: Foris
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