dia
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Ambonese Malay
Etymology
Pronoun
dia
Bavarian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Pronoun
dia
- you (dative, singular)
See also
nominative | accusative | dative | |||||
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stressed | unstressed | stressed | unstressed | stressed | unstressed | ||
1st person singular | i | — | mi | — | mia (mir) | ma | |
2nd person singular | informal | du | — | di | — | dia (dir) | da |
formal | Sie | — | Eahna | — | Eahna | — | |
3rd person singular | m | er | a | eahm | 'n | eahm | 'n |
n | es, des | 's | des | 's | |||
f | se, de | 's | se | 's | ihr | — | |
1st person plural | mia (mir) | ma | uns | — | uns | — | |
2nd person plural | eß, ihr | — | enk, eich | — | enk, eich | — | |
3rd person plural | se | 's | eahna | — | eahna | — |
Betawi
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Malay dia, from Proto-Malayic *ia, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(si-)ia, from Proto-Austronesian *(si-)ia.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
dia
Synonyms
- ni orang
- tu orang
Catalan
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *dia, from Latin diēs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (“heaven, sky”). Compare Gascon dia and Spanish dia.
Pronunciation
Noun
dia m (plural dies)
- day (period of 24 hours)
- 2011, Tobies Grimaltos Mascarós, Idees i paraules: Una filosofia de la vida quotidiana, Universitat de València, →ISBN, page 41:
- Avui és un dia normal. És un dia en el qual no res (m')ha passat especialment remarcable.
- Today is a normal day. It's a day in which nothing especially remarkable happened (to me).
- day (the part of the day between sunrise and sunset)
- Antonym: nit
- 2011, Cinto Niqui Espinosa, Fonaments i usos de tecnologia audiovisual digital, Editorial UOC, →ISBN, page 362:
- En ona llarga durant el dia, a Catalunya, es poden escoltar les emissores Ràdio Montecarlo (RMC), als 216 kHz o Ràdio Alger, als 252 kHz.
- In long wave during the day, in Catalonia, you can hear the broadcasters Ràdio Montecarlo (RMC) at 216 kHz or Ràdio Alger, at 252 kHz.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Related terms
See also
Further reading
- “dia” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “dia”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
- “dia” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “dia” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
Etymology
Clipping of diapositief.
Pronunciation
Noun
dia m (plural dia's, diminutive diaatje n)
- (photography) slide
- Synonym: diapositief
Derived terms
Esperanto
Etymology
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Adjective
dia (accusative singular dian, plural diaj, accusative plural diajn)
Finnish
Etymology
Shortened from diapositiivi, probably after the international example.
Pronunciation
Noun
dia
Declension
Inflection of dia (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | dia | diat | |
genitive | dian | diojen | |
partitive | diaa | dioja | |
illative | diaan | dioihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | dia | diat | |
accusative | nom. | dia | diat |
gen. | dian | ||
genitive | dian | diojen diain rare | |
partitive | diaa | dioja | |
inessive | diassa | dioissa | |
elative | diasta | dioista | |
illative | diaan | dioihin | |
adessive | dialla | dioilla | |
ablative | dialta | dioilta | |
allative | dialle | dioille | |
essive | diana | dioina | |
translative | diaksi | dioiksi | |
abessive | diatta | dioitta | |
instructive | — | dioin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Synonyms
- (slide): diakuva, kuultokuva (dated)
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- “dia”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French
Pronunciation
Interjection
dia
- yah!, cry to make (a) working animal(s) etc. advance or turn left
- Antonym: hue
Derived terms
Further reading
- “dia”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Guinea-Bissau Creole
Etymology
From Portuguese dia. Cognate with Kabuverdianu dia.
Noun
dia
Hungarian
Etymology
Ellipsis of diapozitív (“diapositive”), after the German Diapositiv.
Pronunciation
Noun
dia (plural diák)
- (photography) slide, diapositive (transparent plate used with a projector for projecting images)
Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | dia | diák |
accusative | diát | diákat |
dative | diának | diáknak |
instrumental | diával | diákkal |
causal-final | diáért | diákért |
translative | diává | diákká |
terminative | diáig | diákig |
essive-formal | diaként | diákként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | diában | diákban |
superessive | dián | diákon |
adessive | diánál | diáknál |
illative | diába | diákba |
sublative | diára | diákra |
allative | diához | diákhoz |
elative | diából | diákból |
delative | diáról | diákról |
ablative | diától | diáktól |
non-attributive possessive – singular |
diáé | diáké |
non-attributive possessive – plural |
diáéi | diákéi |
possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
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1st person sing. | diám | diáim |
2nd person sing. | diád | diáid |
3rd person sing. | diája | diái |
1st person plural | diánk | diáink |
2nd person plural | diátok | diáitok |
3rd person plural | diájuk | diáik |
Derived terms
Compound words
- diafelvétel
- diafilm, diafilmvetítő
- diakép
- diakocka
- diavetítő
Further reading
- dia in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).
Iban
Pronunciation
Adverb
dia
- there (not very far from the speaker)
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay dia, cognate with ia, -nya, from Proto-Malayic *ia, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(si-)ia, from Proto-Austronesian *(si-)ia.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈdia/ [ˈdi.a]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -a
- Syllabification: di‧a
Pronoun
dia
- he
- Dia bisa berbahasa Inggris.
- He can speak English.
- she
- Dia mempunyai kegemaran menari.
- She has a passion for dancing.
Synonyms
Irish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Irish día (“god”), from Proto-Celtic *deiwos (compare Welsh duw), from Proto-Indo-European *deywós (compare Sanskrit देव (deva), Latin deus, Old English Tīw (“Germanic god of heroic glory”)).
Noun
dia m (genitive singular dé, nominative plural déithe)
- a god
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
- Dia (“God”) (as a proper noun)
Etymology 2
From Old Irish día (“day”), from Proto-Celtic *dyīus (compare Welsh dydd), from Proto-Indo-European *dyew-.
Noun
dia
Derived terms
Mutation
radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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dia | dhia | ndia |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “dia”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 día (‘God’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 día (‘day’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “dia”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 237
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “dia”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “dia”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025
Italian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *dia, first-declension reshaping of Classical Latin diēs. Doublet of die.
Noun
dia m or f (plural unknown or uncertain) (Old Italian, chiefly in poetry)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
dia f
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
dia
- inflection of dare:
Anagrams
Kabuverdianu
Etymology
From Portuguese dia.
Noun
dia
Kituba
Verb
dia
- to eat
Ladino
Noun
dia m (Hebrew spelling דיאה)
- Alternative spelling of diya
- 1910, Reuben Eliyahu Israel, Traducsion libera de las poezias ebraicas de Roş Aşana i Kipur, Craiova: Institutul Grafic, I. Samitca şi D. Baraş, Socieatate in Comandita, →OCLC, page 11:
- En mi corason esta tu memoria santa
Dia i noce de mi no se aparta- In my heart lies your holy memory, day and night it separates not from me.
Latin
Adjective
dia
- inflection of dius:
Adjective
diā
Lombard
Etymology
From Latin Diana, Roman goddess of the hunt and wild animals.
Pronunciation
Noun
dia m (feminine deja, masculine plural dia, feminine plural deje) (New Lombard Orthography)
Macanese
Etymology
From Portuguese dia.
Noun
dia (plural dia-dia)
- day
- tudo dia ― always; every day (literally, “all day”)
Derived terms
- dia-a-dia (“day by day, by the day”)
Malagasy
Etymology 1
Adjective
dia
- wild
- Synonym: haolo
Etymology 2
Possibly connected with Swahili njia.
Noun
dia
Malay
Etymology
Cognate with ia, -nya, from Proto-Malayic *ia, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(si-)ia, from Proto-Austronesian *(si-)ia.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
dia (Jawi spelling دي)
Affixations
- diakan
Compounds
- dia orang (“they”)
Descendants
See also
singular | plural | ||
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1st person | standard | saya / ساي aku / اکو, ku- / كوـ (informal/towards God) -ku / ـكو (informal possessive) hamba / همبا (dated) |
kami / کامي (exclusive) kita orang / كيت اورڠ (informal exclusive) kita / کيت (inclusive) |
royal | beta / بيتا | ||
2nd person | standard | ||
engkau / اڠکاو, kau- / كاوـ (informal/towards God) awak / اوق (friendly/older towards younger) -mu / ـمو (possessive) |
awak semua / اوق سموا kamu semua / كامو سموا kalian / کالين (informal) kau orang / كاو اورڠ (informal) | ||
royal | tuanku / توانكو | ||
3rd person | standard | dia / دي ia / اي beliau / بلياو (honorific) -nya / ـڽ (possessive) |
mereka / مريک dia orang / دي اورڠ (informal) |
royal | baginda / بݢيندا |
Further reading
- “dia” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Mandarin
Romanization
dia
- Nonstandard spelling of diǎ.
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.
Middle Irish
Etymology
Univerbation of di (“of/from”) + a (“his/her/its/their”)
Pronunciation
Determiner
dia (‘his’ and ‘its’ trigger lenition, ‘her’ triggers /h/-prothesis, ‘their’ triggers eclipsis)
- of/from his/her/its/their
- c. 1000, “The Tale of Mac Da Thó's Pig”, in Ernst Windisch, editor, Irische Texte, volume 1, published 1800, section 1:
- Ailbe ainm in chon, ocus lan hEriu dia aurdarcus.
- Ailbe was the dog’s name, and Ireland was full of his fame.
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
Verb
dia
- simple past and past participle of die
Occitan
Old Irish
Old Occitan
Old Spanish
Papiamentu
Plautdietsch
Pom
Portuguese
Scottish Gaelic
Spanish
Sranan Tongo
Swahili
Swedish
Tolai
Tswana
Umbrian
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