# fia
## Translingual
### Symbol

fia
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Nobiin.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Nobiin terms

## Bavarian
### Alternative forms

* fi (Southern Bavarian, Tyrol)

### Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German vür, from Old High German furi, from Proto-West Germanic *furi, from Proto-Germanic *furi, from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fiɐ̯/
* Homophone: vier

### Preposition

fia (sandhi fiar) (Central Bavarian, Southern Bavarian, Carinthia)
* for (directed at; intended to belong to)
    Des is fia di. ― This is for you.
* in favor of, in support of
    I bin fia de Woaheit. ― I'm in favor of the truth.
* for (by the standards of)
    Fiar an Hund is des a guade Leistung. ― For a dog, this is a good performance.
* on behalf of
    Mei Sekretär kimmert si um des fia mi. ― My secretary will tend to that on my behalf.
* kind / type of
    Wås fiar a Biachl is des? ― What kind of book is this?

## Catalan
### Verb

fia
* inflection of fiar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From fi- (“shameful, immoral, corrupt, dissolute, dirty, slutty”) +‎ -a (adjectival suffix).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: [ˈfia]
* Rhymes: -ia
* Hyphenation: fi‧a

### Adjective

fia (accusative singular fian, plural fiaj, accusative plural fiajn)
* shameful, ignoble
    La ekzekutisto, spite lia fia metio, estis bonkora viro. ― The executioner, despite his shameful trade, was a kind man.
* naughty
    Sian fian liston Avo Frosto ĉiam kontrolas dufoje. ― Santa Claus checks always his naughty list twice.

## Ewe
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɪæ/

### Noun

fia (plural fiawo)
* king

### Verb

fia
* to burn
* to demonstrate
* to show
* to teach

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

fia
* third-person singular past historic of fier

## Galician
### Verb

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

## Hungarian
### Etymology

From the fi variant of fiú (“son”) +‎ -a (possessive suffix).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfijɒ]
* Hyphenation: fia

### Noun

fia
* (with a possessive suffix) third-person singular single-possession possessive of fiú (“boy, son”): one’s son (irregular possessive-suffixed form specifically referring to a son)
    Coordinate term: (regular possessive-suffixed form) lánya (“one’s daughter”)
    A fia egy másik városban él. ― His/her son lives in another city.

#### Usage notes

For the possessive of fiú in the sense “boyfriend”, see fiúja.

#### Declension
### Further reading

* fia 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

## Irish
### Alternative forms

* fiadh (obsolete)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fʲiə/

### Etymology 1

From Old Irish fíad (“wild animals, game, especially deer”), from Proto-Celtic *weidus (“wild”). Doublet of the sense “waste”.

#### Noun

fia m (genitive singular fia, nominative plural fianna)
* deer

##### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
fia
fianna
vocative
a fhia
a fhianna
genitive
fia
fianna
dative
fia
fianna
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an fia
na fianna
genitive
an fhia
na bhfianna
dative
leis an bhfia don fhia
leis na fianna :

##### Derived terms

* carria
* fia bairr m (“stag”)
* fia bán m (“fallow deer”)
* fia beannach m (“antlered deer, stag”)
* fia buí m (“fallow deer”)
* fia fionn m (“fallow deer”)
* fia mór m (“elk”)
* fia odhar m (“roe deer”)
* fia rua m (“red deer”)
* fia-chú m (“deerhound”)
* fiach fianna m (“deer-stalking”)
* fiafheoil f (“venison”)
* fiagaí m (“hunter, huntsman”)
* fialann f (“deerpark”)
* fiaphoc m (“buck”)
* fiasheilg f (“stag-hunting”)
* muscfhia m (“musk deer”)
* réinfhia m (“reindeer”)
* seilg fianna f (“stag-hunting”)

#### Adjective

fia
* wild

##### Declension

$^1$ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article. $^2$ When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

##### Derived terms

* diasa fia m (“corn-cockle”)
* fia- (“wild; large, outsize”)

##### Related terms

* fiáin

### Etymology 2

From Old Irish fíad (“uncultivated land, a waste spot; a territory, land”), from Proto-Celtic *weidus (“wild”). Doublet of the sense “deer; wild”.

#### Noun

fia m (genitive singular fia)
* waste, wilderness
* land, territory

##### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
nominative
fia
vocative
a fhia
genitive
fia
dative
fia
forms with the definite article
case
singular
nominative
an fia
genitive
an fhia
dative
leis an bhfia don fhia :

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ “fia”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
* ↑ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 110
* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 fíad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 fíad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fia”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “fia”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
* “fia”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

## Italian
### Alternative forms

* fie

### Verb

fia
* third-person singular future of fire: (he/she/it) will be

### Anagrams

* AFI, FAI, fai, ifa

## Malagasy
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pəʀəs (compare with Malay perah and peras).

### Verb

fia
* to squeeze, to press

#### Derived terms

* rafia

### Further reading

* fia in Malagasy dictionaries at malagasyword.org

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

fia
* inflection of fiar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

fia f (plural fia or fias, masculine fio, masculine plural fio or fios)
* Pronunciation spelling of filha, representing Caipira Portuguese.
    Synonym: fía

## Romansch
### Alternative forms

* fieu (Rumantsch Grischun)
* fiug (Sursilvan)
* fiac (Sutsilvan)
* fi (Surmiran)
* fö (Puter, Vallader)

### Etymology

From Latin focus (“hearth, fireplace”).

### Noun

fia m
* (Sutsilvan) fire

## Samoan
### Verb

fia
* want to do something

## Spanish
### Alternative forms

* fiá

### Verb

fia
* second-person singular voseo imperative of fiar

### Anagrams

* AFI

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Verb

-fia (infinitive kufia)
* Applicative form of -fa: to die (for a cause)
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fa
* (idiomatic) to love someone deeply

#### Conjugation

Conjugation of -fia :
| Positive present | -nafia |
| Subjunctive | -fie |
| Negative | -fii |
| Imperative singular | fia |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kufia |
| Negative | kutofia |
Imperatives :
| Singular | fia |
| Plural | fieni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | hufia |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -lifia |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kufia |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -tafia |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -tafia |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -sifie |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngefia |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singefia |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalifia |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalifia |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -mefia |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshafia |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -jafia |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kifia |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipofia |
| Consecutive | kafia / positive subject concord + -kafia |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kafie |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :