chia

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See also: Chia and chía

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chía, from Classical Nahuatl chiyan (“seed of the chia plant”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃiː.ə/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -iːə

Noun

chia (countable and uncountable, plural chias)

  1. A Mexican sage grown for its edible seeds, Salvia hispanica.
  2. Salvia columbariae, a sage with similar seeds, native to the southwestern US and northwestern Mexico.

Translations

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Classical Nahuatl

Noun

chia (inanimate)

  1. Obsolete spelling of chiyan

Esperanto

Determiner

chia

  1. H-system spelling of ĉia

French

Pronunciation

Verb

chia

  1. third-person singular past historic of chier

Galician

Verb

chia

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

Hokkien

For pronunciation and definitions of chia – see 遮 (“here”).
(This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 遮).

Nafaanra

Noun

chia

  1. town

Portuguese

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Rhymes: -iɐ
  • Hyphenation: chi‧a

Verb

chia

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

Vietnamese

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Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 支 (“subdivision; to disburse”, SV: chi).

Pronunciation

Verb

chia • (支, 𢺹, 𢺺, 𬨟)

  1. (arithmetic) to divide
    chia (cho) ― (to be) divided by
    chia hết cho ― to be divisible by
  2. to distribute; to share (something with others)
  3. (grammar) to conjugate

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