# nya
## Translingual
### Symbol

nya
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Chewa.

### See also

* Wiktionary’s coverage of Chichewa terms

## English
### Etymology

From the Japanese onomatopoeia にゃ (nya).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnjɑː/, /ˈnjæ/
* Rhymes: -ɑː, -æ

### Interjection

nya
* (anime and manga fandom) The cry of a cat; meow, miaow.
    Synonyms: nyaa, nyan, nyao

## Bambara
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɲáà]

### Noun

nya
* (anatomy) eye

### References

* 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

## Ewe
### Noun

nya
* word

## Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai
### Pronoun

nya
* 1st-person singular pronoun: I
* 1st-person plural pronoun: we
* 1st-person singular possessive pronoun: my
* 1st-person plural possessive pronoun: our

#### See also
## Iatmul
### Noun

nya
* sun

#### Further reading

* Iatmül language
* https://web.archive.org/web/20170329060313/http://www.ioling.org/booklets/iol-2016-indiv-sol.en.pdf

## Japanese
### Romanization

nya
* The hiragana syllable にゃ (nya) or the katakana syllable ニャ (nya) in Hepburn romanization.

## Malay
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɲa/
** (Johor-Riau) IPA: [ɲə]
** (Baku) IPA: [ɲa]
* (letter) IPA: [ɲa]
* Rhymes: -a
* Hyphenation: nya

### Etymology 1

Clipping of punya.

#### Particle

nya (Jawi spelling ڽا)
* (informal) Alternative form of punya.
    Adam nya buku ― Adam's book

### Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Noun

nya (Jawi spelling ڽا)
* The 36th letter of the Jawi script which represents the [ɲ] sound; ڽ.

### See also

* -nya (suffix)

### Further reading

* “nya” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Northern Ndebele
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-nèa.

### Verb

-nya
* to excrete, to defecate

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## Phuthi
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-nèa.

### Verb

-nya
* to excrete, to defecate

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## Sotho
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-nèa.

### Verb

nya
* (vulgar) to excrete, to defecate
    Synonym: kaka

## Southwestern Dinka
### Noun

nya (plural nyïr)
* girl

### References

* Dinka-English Dictionary‎, 2005

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Bantu *-nèa.

#### Verb

-nya (infinitive kunya)
* to defecate

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Bantu *-nɪ̀a.

#### Verb

-nya (infinitive kunya)
* to rain or drop like rain
* to discharge or release liquid

### Conjugation

Conjugation of -nya :
| Positive present | -nakunya |
| Subjunctive | -nye |
| Negative | -nyi |
| Imperative singular | kunya |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kunya |
| Negative | kutokunya |
Imperatives :
| Singular | kunya |
| Plural | kunyeni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | hunya |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -likunya |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kunya |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -takunya |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -takunya |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -sinye |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngekunya |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singekunya |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalikunya |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalikunya |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -mekunya |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshakunya |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -janya |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kinya |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipokunya |
| Consecutive | kanya / positive subject concord + -kanya |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kanye |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :

### Derived terms

* Verbal derivations:
** Applicative: -nyea
** Augmentative: -nyesha
** Stative: -nyeka

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²nyːˌa/

### Adjective

nya
* inflection of ny:
** definite singular
** plural

## Tagalog
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈnja/ [ˈɲa]
** IPA: (no yod coalescence) /ˈnja/ [ˈn̪ja]
* Rhymes: -a
* Syllabification: nya

### Determiner

niyá (Baybayin spelling ᜈ᜔ᜌ)
* Superseded, pre-2007 spelling of niya.

### Pronoun

niyá (Baybayin spelling ᜈ᜔ᜌ)
* Superseded, pre-2007 spelling of niya.

#### Usage notes

* This spelling does not follow the rule of double vowel clusters with an /i/ or /u/ as the first vowel when at the start of a word or when following a double consonant (where the standard is to retain the vowel cluster and add a ⟨y⟩ or ⟨w⟩ in between). See Appendix:Tagalog spellings for details.

## Venda
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-nèa.

### Verb

nya
* to excrete, to defecate

## Zulu
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-nèa.

### Verb

-nya
* (intransitive) to defecate
    Synonym: -bhosha

#### Inflection
### References

* C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “nya”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “nya”