mia

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English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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mia (uncountable)

  1. (classical studies) An ancient bluffing game played with dice.

Etymology 2

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Clipping of bulimia; intentionally formed to resemble the given name Mia as form of personification and coded language. Compare ana.

Noun

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mia (uncountable)

  1. (Internet slang) bulimia (used especially by the pro-mia movement).
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etymologically unrelated terms contianing "mia"

Anagrams

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Baba Malay

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Hokkien (miā).

Noun

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mia

  1. destiny, fortune, luck

Particle

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mia

  1. possessive particle

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Bavarian

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Alternative forms

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  • mir (German spelling)
  • ma (unstressed form)

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Cognate with German mir.

Pronoun

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mia

  1. me (dative)

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Etymology 2

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Cognate with German wir.

Pronoun

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mia

  1. we

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Catalan

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Pronoun

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mia

  1. (archaic, poetic, Northern, Alghero) feminine singular of meu

Usage notes

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Outside of poetry, certain dialects and sayings, proverbs and set phrases, this form is archaic and is normally supplanted by meva and meua.

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Esperanto

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Etymology

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mi +‎ -a

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈmia]
  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Hyphenation: mi‧a

Determiner

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mia (accusative singular mian, plural miaj, accusative plural miajn)

  1. my, mine

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Galician

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Verb

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mia

  1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of miar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

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Pronoun

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mia

  1. feminine singular of mio

Anagrams

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Mori Bawah

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Noun

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mia

  1. person

References

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  • The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar (2013, →ISBN, page 685

Neapolitan

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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mìa f (first person singular possessive)

  1. feminine singular of mìo

Pronoun

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mìa f (first person singular possessive)

  1. feminine singular of mìo

Northern Paiute

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Verb

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mia

  1. go

References

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  • Sven Liljeblad, Catherine S Fowler, Glenda Powell, Northern Paiute–Bannock Dictionary (2012, →ISBN (mia-)

Old Catalan

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Adjective

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mia

  1. feminine singular of meu

Portuguese

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Etymology

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -iɐ
  • Hyphenation: mi‧a

Verb

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mia

  1. inflection of miar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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mia

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of mie

Etymology 2

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Inherited from Latin agnella. Compare Aromanian njauã.

Alternative forms

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Noun

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mia f (plural miele, masculine equivalent miel)

  1. ewe lamb
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Romansch

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Adjective

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mia f (masculine mes)

  1. (possessive) my

Swahili

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Swahili numbers (edit)
1,000
 ←  90  ←  99 100 101  →  200  → 
10
    Cardinal: mia

Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic مِئَة (miʔa).

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Numeral

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mia (invariable)

  1. hundred

Noun

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mia (ma class, plural mamia)

  1. hundred

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Tabaru

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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mia

  1. a monkey

References

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  • Edward A. Kotynski (1988) “Tabaru phonology and morphology”, in Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, volume 32, Summer Institute of Linguistics

Ternate

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Noun

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mia

  1. monkey

References

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  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Uneapa

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Etymology

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From Proto-Oceanic *mia, variant of *mian.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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mia

  1. to dwell

Further reading

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  • Ross, Malcolm D. (2016) Andrew Pawley, editor, The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: Volume 5, People: body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, →OCLC; republished as Meredith Osmond, editor, (Please provide a date or year)

West Makian

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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mia

  1. (stative) to be good

Conjugation

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Conjugation of mia (stative verb)
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person timia mimia amia
2nd person nimia fimia
3rd person inanimate imia dimia
animate mamia
imperative —, mia —, mia

References

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  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[1], Pacific linguistics

Wolio

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Etymology

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Compare Balantak mian.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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mia

  1. person, human being

References

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  • Anceaux, Johannes C. (1987) Wolio Dictionary (Wolio-English-Indonesian) / Kamus Bahasa Wolio (Wolio-Inggeris-Indonesia), Dordrecht: Foris