# pia
## English
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

pia
* (anatomy) The pia mater, the innermost of the meninges that protect the brain and spinal cord.
** 2009 January 25, Denis Campbell, “Kian, 4, needs a miracle. He's in the right place”, in The Observer‎:One screen in the theatre relays live colour pictures of Harkness and his colleague Tiernan Byrnes's progress, cutting and pushing through first the dura, then the arachnoid and finally the pia, the thin, spider's web-type membranes that cover the brain itself.

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hawaiian pia.

#### Noun

pia (uncountable)
* A perennial Polynesian herb whose fleshy tubers yield arrowroot.

### Anagrams

* api-, IPA, API, IAP, AIP, Api

## Allentiac
### Noun

pia (plural pia-guiam)
* father

### References

* Discovery of a Fragment of the Printed Copy of the Work on the Language of the Millcayac Indians (1913) (in notes)
* Willem F. H. Adelaar, The Languages of the Andes (2004), citing Luis de Valdiva's work

## Comanche
### Noun

pia
* mother

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From Italian pio, French pieux, English pious, all from Latin pius (“pious, devout”). Compare Spanish pío, Romanian pios.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: [ˈpia]
* Rhymes: -ia
* Hyphenation: pi‧a

### Adjective

pia (accusative singular pian, plural piaj, accusative plural piajn)
* pious
    Antonym: malpia

#### Related terms

* pieco

## Farefare
### Etymology

Cognate with Moore piiga (“ten”).

### Numeral

pia
* ten

#### Derived terms

* pia la ayɩla (“eleven”)
* pia la ayi (“twelve”)
* pia la atã (“thirteen”)
* pia la anaasɩ (“fourteen”)
* pia la anuu (“fifteen”)
* pia la ayoobɩ (“sixteen”)
* pia la ayopɔɩ (“seventeen”)
* pia la anii (“eighteen”)
* pia la awɛɩ (“nineteen”)
* pisyi (“twenty”)
* pitã (“thirty”)
* pinãasɩ (“forty”)
* pinuu (“fifty”)
* pisyoobɩ (“sixty”)
* pisyopɔɩ (“seventy”)
* pinii (“eighty”)
* piswɛɩ (“ninety”)
* tʋspia (“ten thousand”)

#### Related terms

* pisi (“tens”)

## Galician
### Verb

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

## Hawaiian
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *pia (compare with Tahitian pia and Samoan pia), from Proto-Oceanic *ʀabia “sago, Metroxylon sagu” (compare with Fijian via “Cyrtosperma chamissonis, Alocasia indica”) from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀambia “sago palm” (compare with Malay rumbia).

#### Noun

pia
* Polynesian arrowroot, Tacca leontopetaloides
* starch from any plant in general (corn etc.)
* a variety of taro
* a variety of sweet potato

#### References

* ↑ Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “pia”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, revised & enlarged edition, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 325
* 1 2 Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “pia1”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
* ↑ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2016) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 5: Plants, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 286-289

### Etymology 2

From English beer.

#### Noun

pia
* beer

### Etymology 3

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

#### Noun

pia
* stork
    Synonyms: kikonia, kekoleka

#### References

* Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “pia”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Back-formation of piál.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpijɒ]
* Hyphenation: pia
* Rhymes: -jɒ

### Noun

pia (plural piák)
* (slang) booze, drink, grog, liquor

#### Derived terms

* piás
* piázik

### Further reading

* pia 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

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpi.a/
* Rhymes: -ia
* Hyphenation: pì‧a

### Adjective

pia
* feminine singular of pio

### Verb

pia
* third-person singular present indicative of piare
** 1290–1299, Guido Cavalcanti, In un boschetto trovai pasturella:quando l'augel piawhen the bird chirps

### References

* ↑ piare in Bruno Migliorini et al., Dizionario d'ortografia e di pronunzia, Rai Eri, 2007

### Anagrams

* Api, IPA, api

## Krio
### Etymology 1

From English pair.

#### Noun

píà
* pair

### Etymology 2

From English [alligator] pear.

#### Noun

píà
* avocado

### References

* Fyle, Clifford N., Jones, Eldred D. (1980) A Krio-English dictionary, USA: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 288

## Latin
### Adjective

pia
* inflection of pius:
** nominative/vocative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

### Adjective

piā
* ablative feminine singular of pius

### References

* "pia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

## Lolopo
### Etymology

From Tai. Compare Thai ผ้า (pâa) and Lü ᦕᦱᧉ (ṗhaa²).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [pʰʲa³³]

### Noun

pia
* (Yao'an) clothes

## Mandarin
### Romanization

pia
* Nonstandard spelling of piā.

#### Usage notes

* Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

## Marshallese
### Pronunciation

* (phonetic) IPA: [pʲiɑ]
* (phonemic) IPA: /pʲijæɰ/
* Bender phonemes: {piyah}

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Micronesian *pia, from Proto-Oceanic *piʀa, *biʀa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *piʀah, *biʀah, from Proto-Austronesian *piʀaS, *biʀaS. Cognate with Paiwan bias, Bikol Central piga, Karo Batak pira.

#### Alternative forms

* bwiaea
* piaea

#### Noun

pia (construct form piain)
* fish roe

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English beer.

#### Noun

pia (construct form piain)
* beer

### References

* Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

## Papiamentu
### Etymology

From Spanish pie.

### Noun

pia
* foot
* leg

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpi.ɐ/
* Rhymes: -iɐ
* Hyphenation: pi‧a

### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese pia, from Latin pīla (“mortar”).

#### Noun

pia f (plural pias)
* sink (basin with a drain)
* a sink and adjacent counter
    Deixe o prato na pia, mas não dentro.Leave the plate on the counter, not in the sink.
* a basin for holding water, in particular one that is furniture or part of the building rather than a movable object
    pia batismal ― baptismal font

##### Descendants

* Hunsrik: Pia

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

pia f sg
* feminine singular of pio

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

pia
* inflection of piar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### References

* ↑ “pia”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* ↑ “pia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpja/ [ˈpja]
* Rhymes: -a
* Syllabification: pia

### Verb

pia
* second-person singular voseo imperative of piar

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Adverb

pia
* also
    Synonym: vilevile
* all (used with -ote for emphasis)

## West Makian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpi.a/

### Noun

pia
* rice

#### Alternative forms

* pea

### References

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