# aria
## English
### Etymology

From Italian aria, metathesis from Latin āerem, accusative of āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”). Doublet of air.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɑː.ɹi.ə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑːɹi.ə

### Noun

aria (plural arias or arie)
* (music) A musical piece written typically for a solo voice with orchestral accompaniment in an opera or cantata.

#### Derived terms

* arialike

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Aari, Arai, RIAA, Raia

## Asturian
### Adjective

aria
* feminine singular of ariu

## Corsican
### Alternative forms

* ariu

### Etymology

From Latin aer, borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr). Cognates include Italian aria and French air.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaria/
* Hyphenation: a‧ri‧a
* Rhymes: -aria

### Noun

aria f (plural arie)
* air
* (music) aria, song

### References

* “aria, ariu” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa
* Mathée Giacomo-Marcellesi (1997) Corse, LINCOM, →ISBN, page 3

## Dalmatian
### Etymology

From Latin āērea or āēre, from āēr.

### Noun

aria f
* air
* appearance
** Matteo Bartoli, Il Dalmatico :L'aria de nuát no stói bun.

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian aria.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.ʁja/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

aria f (plural arias)
* (music) aria

### Further reading

* “aria”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Dutch aria, from Italian aria, metathesis from Latin āerem, accusative of āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /aˈria/ [aˈri.a]
* Syllabification: a‧ri‧a

### Noun

aria (plural aria-aria)
* (music) aria (a type of musical piece written typically for a solo voice)

### Further reading

* “aria” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Italian
### Etymology

Metathesis from Latin āera, Greek-type accusative of āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”). See also aere.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈa.rja/
* Audio (l'aria):(file)
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -arja
* Hyphenation: à‧ria

### Noun

aria f (plural arie)
* air
* look, appearance, countenance
* (plural only) airs
* wind (all senses)
* (music) aria, song

#### Related terms

* aerare
* aere
* aereo
* aria-acqua
* aria-aria
* aria-terra
* arieggiare
* arioso
* darsi delle arie

#### Descendants

* → Afrikaans: aria
* → Asturian: aria
* → Azerbaijani: ariya
* → Belarusian: арыя (aryja)
* → Bulgarian: ария (arija)
* → Catalan: ària
* → Czech: árie
* → Danish: arie
* → Dutch: arie
* → English: aria
* → Esperanto: ario
* → Estonian: aaria
* → French: aria
* → Galician: aria
* → Gallurese: aria
* → Irish: áiria
* → Georgian: არია (aria)
* → German: Arie
* → Greek: άρια (ária)
* → Hungarian: ária
* → Japanese: アリア (aria)
* → Kazakh: ария (ariä)
* → Latvian: ārija
* → Lithuanian: arija
* → Malay: aria
** Indonesian: aria
* → Maori: āria
* → Mongolian: ари (ari)
* → Northern Kurdish: arya
* → Polish: aria
* → Portuguese: ária
* → Romanian: arie
* → Russian: а́рия (árija)
* → Sardinian: àera
* → Sassarese: aria
* → Sicilian: aria
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: а̑рија
    Latin script: ȃrija
* → Slovene: arija
* → Spanish: aria
** → Tagalog: arya
* → Slovak: ária
* → Swedish: aria
** → Finnish: aaria
* → Turkish: arya
* → Ukrainian: арія (arija)
* → Uzbek: ariya

### Anagrams

* arai, raia

## Kikuyu
### Etymology

Hinde (1904) records kuarria as an equivalent of English say and speak in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aɾia/

### Verb

aria (infinitive kwaria)
* to speak
    Njaragia Gĩkũyũ. ― I (usually) speak Kikuyu language.

#### Derived terms

(Nouns)
* mwario class 3, rwario class 11

#### Related terms

* mwarĩrie class 3

#### See also

* kwĩra, kuuga

### References

* ↑ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 50–51, 54–55. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

### Further reading

* Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 360. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian aria.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈa.rja/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -arja
* Syllabification: a‧ria

### Noun

aria f
* (music) aria

#### Related terms

* arieta
* arietka
* arietta

### Further reading

* aria in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* aria in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romansch
### Etymology

Ultimately from Latin āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”).

### Noun

aria f
* (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) air

#### Synonyms

* (Sutsilvan) leer
* (Puter, Vallader) ajer

## Saaroa
### Alternative forms

* ariia

### Noun

aria
* axe

## Sicilian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈa.ɾja/
* Hyphenation: à‧ria

### Noun

aria f
* (non trisyllabic) Alternative form of ària

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaɾja/ [ˈa.ɾja]
* Rhymes: -aɾja
* Syllabification: a‧ria

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian aria.

#### Noun

aria f (plural arias)
* (music) aria (a musical piece written typically for a solo voice with orchestral accompaniment in an opera or cantata)

##### Descendants

* → Tagalog: arya

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

aria f (plural arias)
* female equivalent of ario (“Aryan”)

#### Adjective

aria
* feminine singular of ario

### Further reading

* “aria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Noun

aria c
* an aria
    sjunga ariorsing arias

#### Descendants

* → Finnish: aaria

### References

* aria in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* aria in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* aria in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)