# mia
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miː.ə/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːə
* Hyphenation: mi‧a

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

mia (uncountable)
* (classical studies) An ancient bluffing game played with dice.

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

mia (uncountable)
* (Internet slang) Bulimia nervosa.

##### Derived terms

* pro-mia

##### See also

* ana, pro-ana

#### See also

* mamma mia
* mia luang
* mia mia
* mia noi

### Anagrams

* I'm a', ima, IAM, I'ma, I'm'a, AIM, i'ma, IMA, I'm a, i'm'a, mai, I am, Ima, Mai, AMI, aim, Ima', MAI, I'm-a

## Baba Malay
### Etymology

Borrowed from Hokkien 命 (miā).

### Noun

mia
* destiny, fortune, luck

### Particle

mia
* possessive particle

#### Synonyms

* punya

## Bavarian
### Alternative forms

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miɐ̯/

### Etymology 1

Cognate with German mir.

#### Pronoun

mia
* me (dative)

#### See also

| | | nominative | nominative | accusative | accusative | dative | dative |
| | | stressed | unstressed | stressed | unstressed | stressed | unstressed |
| 1st person singular | 1st person singular | i | — | mi | — | mia (mir) | ma |
| 2nd person singular (informal) | 2nd person singular (informal) | du | — | di | — | dia (dir) | da |
| 2nd person singular (formal) | 2nd person singular (formal) | Sie | — | Eahna | — | Eahna | — |
| 3rd person singular | m | er | a | eahm | 'n | eahm | 'n |
| 3rd person singular | n | es, des | 's | des | 's | eahm | 'n |
| 3rd person singular | f | se, de | 's | se | 's | ihr | — |
| 1st person plural | 1st person plural | mia (mir) | ma | uns | — | uns | — |
| 2nd person plural | 2nd person plural | eß, ihr | — | enk, eich | — | enk, eich | — |
| 3rd person plural | 3rd person plural | se | 's | eahna | — | eahna | — |

### Etymology 2

Cognate with German wir.

#### Pronoun

mia
* we

#### See also

| | | nominative | nominative | accusative | accusative | dative | dative |
| | | stressed | unstressed | stressed | unstressed | stressed | unstressed |
| 1st person singular | 1st person singular | i | — | mi | — | mia (mir) | ma |
| 2nd person singular (informal) | 2nd person singular (informal) | du | — | di | — | dia (dir) | da |
| 2nd person singular (formal) | 2nd person singular (formal) | Sie | — | Eahna | — | Eahna | — |
| 3rd person singular | m | er | a | eahm | 'n | eahm | 'n |
| 3rd person singular | n | es, des | 's | des | 's | eahm | 'n |
| 3rd person singular | f | se, de | 's | se | 's | ihr | — |
| 1st person plural | 1st person plural | mia (mir) | ma | uns | — | uns | — |
| 2nd person plural | 2nd person plural | eß, ihr | — | enk, eich | — | enk, eich | — |
| 3rd person plural | 3rd person plural | se | 's | eahna | — | eahna | — |

## Catalan
### Pronoun

mia
* (archaic, poetic, Northern, Alghero) feminine singular of meu

#### Usage notes

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

#### Further reading

* “mia” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “mia”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “mia” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “mia” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Esperanto
### Etymology

mi +‎ -a

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: [ˈmia]
* Rhymes: -ia
* Hyphenation: mi‧a

### Determiner

mia (accusative singular mian, plural miaj, accusative plural miajn)
* my, mine

### See also
## Galician
### Verb

mia
* (reintegrationist norm) inflection of miar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Italian
### Pronoun

mia
* feminine singular of mio

### Anagrams

* ami, ima, mai

## Mori Bawah
### Noun

mia
* person

### References

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

## Neapolitan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmi(ə)/
* Homophone: mìo

### Adjective

mìa f (first person singular possessive)
* feminine singular of mìo

### Pronoun

mìa f (first person singular possessive)
* feminine singular of mìo

## Northern Paiute
### Verb

mia
* go

### References

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

## Old Catalan
### Adjective

mia
* feminine singular of meu

## Portuguese
### Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmi.ɐ/
* Rhymes: -iɐ
* Hyphenation: mi‧a

### Verb

mia
* inflection of miar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmi.ja/

#### Noun

mia
* definite nominative/accusative singular of mie

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin agnella. Compare Aromanian njauã.

#### Alternative forms

* mială

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmja/

#### Noun

mia f (plural miele, masculine equivalent miel)
* ewe lamb

##### Derived terms

* mioară

##### Related terms

* miel
* miță

## Romansch
### Adjective

mia f (masculine mes)
* (possessive) my

## Swahili
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِئَة (miʔa).

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Numeral

mia (invariable)
* hundred

### Noun

mia class V (plural mamia class VI)
* hundred

#### Derived terms

* asilimia

#### See also

* miateini (“two hundred”)

## Tabaru
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmi.a]

### Noun

mia
* a monkey

### References

* 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
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmi.a]

### Noun

mia
* monkey

### References

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

## Uneapa
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mia/

### Verb

mia
* to dwell

### Further reading

* 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
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmi.a/

### Verb

mia
* (stative) to be good

#### Conjugation
### References

* Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics

## Wolio
### Etymology

Compare Balantak mian.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mia/

### Noun

mia
* person, human being

### References

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