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pia

1. (anatomy) The pia mater, the innermost of the meninges that protect the brain and spinal cord.

   • 2009 January 25, Denis Campbell, “Kian, 4, needs a miracle. He's in the right place”, in The Observer‎^[1]:

     One screen in the theatre relays live colour pictures of Harkness and his colleague Tiernan Byrnes's progress, cutting and pushing through first the dura, then the arachnoid and finally the pia, the thin, spider's web-type membranes that cover the brain itself.

pia (uncountable)

1. A perennial Polynesian herb whose fleshy tubers yield arrowroot.

• api-, IPA, API, IAP, AIP, Api

pia (plural pia-guiam)

1. father

• Discovery of a Fragment of the Printed Copy of the Work on the Language of the Millcayac Indians (1913) (in notes)
• Willem F. H. Adelaar, The Languages of the Andes (2004), citing Luis de Valdiva's work

pia

1. mother

From Italian pio, French pieux, English pious, all from Latin pius (“pious, devout”). Compare Spanish pío, Romanian pios.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpia]
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: pi‧a

pia (accusative singular pian, plural piaj, accusative plural piajn)

1. pious

   Antonym: malpia

• pieco

Cognate with Moore piiga (“ten”).

pia

1. ten

• pia la ayɩla (“eleven”)
• pia la ayi (“twelve”)
• pia la atã (“thirteen”)
• pia la anaasɩ (“fourteen”)
• pia la anuu (“fifteen”)
• pia la ayoobɩ (“sixteen”)
• pia la ayopɔɩ (“seventeen”)
• pia la anii (“eighteen”)
• pia la awɛɩ (“nineteen”)
• pisyi (“twenty”)
• pitã (“thirty”)
• pinãasɩ (“forty”)
• pinuu (“fifty”)
• pisyoobɩ (“sixty”)
• pisyopɔɩ (“seventy”)
• pinii (“eighty”)
• piswɛɩ (“ninety”)
• tʋspia (“ten thousand”)

• pisi (“tens”)

pia

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

From Proto-Polynesian *pia, from Proto-Oceanic *piʀaq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *biʀaq (“wild taro”).

pia

1. Polynesian arrowroot
2. starch
3. a variety of taro
4. a variety of sweet potato

From English beer.

pia

1. beer

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

pia

1. stork

   Synonyms: kikonia, kekoleka

• Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “pia”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press

Back-formation from piál.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpijɒ]
• Hyphenation: pia
• Rhymes: -jɒ

pia (plural piák)

1. (slang) booze, drink, grog, liquor

• pia in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

pia f sg

1. feminine singular of pio

• Api, IPA, api

From English [alligator] pear.

pia

1. avocado

pia

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

piā

1. ablative feminine singular of pius

• pia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

From Tai. Compare Thai ผ้า (pâa) and Lü ᦕᦱᧉ (ṗhaa²).

• IPA^(key): [pʰʲa³³]

pia 

1. (Yao'an) clothes

pia

1. Nonstandard spelling of piā.

• 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.

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [pʲiɑ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /pʲijæɰ/
• Bender phonemes: {piyah}

From Proto-Micronesian *pia, from Proto-Oceanic *piʀa, *biʀa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *piʀah, *biʀah, from Proto-Austronesian *piʀaS, *biʀaS. Cognate with Paiwan bias, Bikol Central piga, Karo Batak pira.

• bwiaea
• piaea

pia (construct form piain)

1. fish roe

Borrowed from English beer.

pia (construct form piain)

1. beer

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

From Spanish pie.

pia

1. foot
2. leg

• Rhymes: -iɐ
• Hyphenation: pi‧a

From Old Galician-Portuguese pia, from Latin pīla (“mortar”).^[1][2]

pia f (plural pias)

1. sink (basin with a drain)
2. a sink and adjacent counter

   Deixe o prato na pia, mas não dentro.

   Leave the plate on the counter, not in the sink.

3. a basin for holding water, in particular one that is furniture or part of the building rather than a movable object

   pia batismal ― baptismal font

• Hunsrik: Pia

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pia f sg

1. feminine singular of pio

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pia

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpja/ [ˈpja]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: pia

pia

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of piar

pia

1. also

   Synonym: vilevile

2. all (used with -ote for emphasis)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.a/

pia

1. rice

• pea

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[2], Pacific linguistics