# cria
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cría (“kid; pup; cria”).

### Noun

cria (plural crias)
* A young South American camelid (llama, vicuna, guanaco or alpaca).

### Anagrams

* ACIR, AICR, Acri, CAIR, CIRA, Cira, Crai, arci, cair

## Catalan
### Etymology 1

From criar (“to raise”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈkɾi.ə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈkɾi.a]

#### Noun

cria f (plural cries)
* upbringing, raising
* offspring
* young (baby animal)

##### Derived terms

* esgarriacries

#### Further reading

* “cria” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “cria”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
* “cria” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “cria” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

cria
* inflection of criar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Cornish
### Verb

cria
* to cry, to call
* to call, to name

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

cria
* third-person singular past historic of crier

### Anagrams

* cari, cira

## Galician
### Verb

cria
* (reintegrationist norm) first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of crer
* (reintegrationist norm) inflection of criar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Gallurese
### Etymology

Likely a borrowing from Sardinian cria (“brooding; parturition; childbirth”), deverbal from Logudorese criare and Campidanese criai (“to lay eggs; to give birth”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkria/

### Noun

cria f (plural crii)
* (collective) clutch, sitting (of eggs)
* (collective) litter (animals born in one birth)

### References

* Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes
* ↑ Mauro Maxia (2012) Fonetica storica del gallurese e delle altre varietà sardocorse (in Gallurese), Editrice Taphros, →ISBN

## Old Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈkʲrʲi.a]

### Verb

·crïa
* third-person singular present subjunctive conjunct of crenaid

### Mutation
## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɾi.ɐ/
* Rhymes: -iɐ
* Hyphenation: cri‧a

### Etymology 1

From criar (“to rear; to raise”).

#### Noun

cria f (plural crias)
* young; offspring (a young animal, especially one that still depends on its mother)
* (familiar) kid; young'un (a person’s son or daughter)
* someone who is raised by a family but is not their biological child; a ward or an adoptee
* (agriculture) livestock (farm animals being raised)
    Synonym: criação

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

cria
* inflection of criar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

cria
* first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of crer

## Sardinian
### Etymology

Deverbal, from Logudorese criare and Campidanese criai (“to lay an egg; to give birth”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkria/

### Noun

cria f (plural crias)
* (Logudorese, Nuorese, Campidanese) brooding, incubating
* (Logudorese, transferred sense) parturition, labour (of animals, especially sheep)
* (Logudorese, transferred sense, humorous or derogatory) childbirth
** (with an adjective) family, lineage, descent
    de mala cria ― bad-blooded, of bad blood (literally, “[coming] from a bad family”)

#### Descendants

* →? Gallurese: cria
* →? Sassarese: crea

### References

* Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg
* Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

## Sassarese
### Pronunciation

* (Sedini) IPA: /ˈkria/

### Noun

cria f (plural crii)
* (dialectal) Alternative form of crea (“clutch (of eggs); litter”)

### References

* ↑ Mauro Maxia (2012) Fonetica storica del gallurese e delle altre varietà sardocorse (in Sassarese), Editrice Taphros, →ISBN

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɾja/ [ˈkɾja]
* Rhymes: -a
* Syllabification: cria

### Verb

cria
* second-person singular voseo imperative of criar