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Borrowed from Portuguese piã, Spanish pian, or French pian, said to be from a Tupi-Guarani word.
pian (uncountable)
- “pian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “pian”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
pian
- accusative singular of pia
Singular instructive form of pika-.
pian (comparative pikemmin, superlative pikimmin)
- soon (within a short time)
- Synonyms: heti pitäen, hetkessä, kohta, silmänräpäyksessä, piakkoin, tuota pikaa, (colloquial) kohtsillään, kohtsiltään, piakkoin
- soon, quickly
- “pian”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
From Middle Irish pían, from Old Irish pén, from Medieval Latin pēna, from Latin poena (“punishment, pain”), from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “penalty”).
pian f (genitive singular péine, nominative plural pianta or pianacha or piana)
- pain
- pain of suspense
- punishment, penalty
- Alternative declension 1
- Alternative declension 2
- cuid péine (“penal ration of food”)
- pianach (“painful; full of aches and pains”)
- pianadóir m (“tormentor, punisher”)
- pianaí (“painfulness”)
- pianbhreith f (“sentence”)
- pianchíos m (“penal rent”)
- pianmhaolaí m (“anodyne”)
- pianmhar (“painful”)
- pianmhúchach (“pain-killing, analgesic”)
- pianmhúchán m (“pain-killer”)
- pianpháis f (“anguish; agony of suspense”)
- pianseirbhí m (“convict”)
- pianseirbhís f (“penal servitude”)
- piantach (“painful”)
- piantúil (“painful”)
- pianúil (“punitive, penal; painful”)
pian (present analytic pianann, future analytic pianfaidh, verbal noun pianadh, past participle pianta)
- (transitive) pain; punish
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| pian | phian | bpian |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “pian”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “pían”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 62
pian (apocopated)
pian
- Nonstandard spelling of piān.
- Nonstandard spelling of pián.
- Nonstandard spelling of piǎn.
- Nonstandard spelling of piàn.
- 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.
From Middle Irish pían, from Old Irish pén, from Medieval Latin pēna, from Latin poena (“punishment, pain”), from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “penalty”).
pian f (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])
| Manx mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| pian | phian | bian |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “pían”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
pian f
Borrowed from French piano or German Piano, from Italian piano.
pian n (plural piane)
From Middle Irish pían, from Old Irish pén, from Medieval Latin pēna, from Latin poena (“punishment, pain”), from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “penalty”).
pian f (genitive singular péin, plural piantan or pianta or piantaidh)
pian (past phian, future pianaidh, verbal noun pianadh, past participle piante)
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “pian”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][2], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “pían”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language