dia

From Malay dia.

dia

1. he, she (3rd-person singular personal pronoun)

• dir (German spelling)
• da (unstressed form)

Cognate with German dir.

• IPA^(key): /d̥iɐ̯/

dia

1. you (dative, singular)

• diah (Bekasi dialect)
• die (Tanah Abang dialect)
• diè (Meester dialect)
• jiah (Bekasi dialect)

From Malay dia, from Proto-Malayic *ia, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(si-)ia, from Proto-Austronesian *(si-)ia.

• (Literary) IPA^(key): /di.ˈ(j)a/

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• (Meester) IPA^(key): /di.ˈ(j)ɛ/

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• Hyphenation: di‧a

dia

1. he

   Dia lagi ngelempus.

   He is sleeping now.

2. she

   Dia demen ama tu orang.

   She loves him/that person.

• ni orang
• tu orang

• día (obsolete)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *dia, from Latin diēs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (“heaven, sky”). Compare Gascon dia and Spanish dia.

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• Rhymes: -ia

dia m (plural dies)

1. 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).

2. 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.

• jorn

• (days of the week) dia de la setmana; dilluns, dimarts, dimecres, dijous, divendres, dissabte, diumenge ^{(Category: ca:Days of the week)}

• “dia” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “dia”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “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.

Clipping of diapositief.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdi.aː/

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• Hyphenation: dia
• Rhymes: -iaː

dia m (plural dia's, diminutive diaatje n)

1. (photography) slide

   Synonym: diapositief

From dio +‎ -a.

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• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: di‧a

dia (accusative singular dian, plural diaj, accusative plural diajn)

1. godly, of or pertaining to God or gods, divine

Shortened from diapositiivi, probably after the international example.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdiɑ/,
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): dia

dia

1. (photography) slide

• (slide): diakuva, kuultokuva (dated)

• nega
• negatiivi

• “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

• IPA^(key): /dja/

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dia

1. yah!, cry to make (a) working animal(s) etc. advance or turn left

   Antonym: hue

• à hue et à dia

• “dia”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

From Portuguese dia. Cognate with Kabuverdianu dia.

dia

1. day (period of 24 hours)
2. day (period between sunrise and sunset)

Ellipsis of diapozitív (“diapositive”), after the German Diapositiv.

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• Hyphenation: dia
• Rhymes: -jɒ

dia (plural diák)

1. (photography) slide, diapositive (transparent plate used with a projector for projecting images)

• 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).

• IPA^(key): /diaʔ/

dia

1. there (not very far from the speaker)

From Malay dia, cognate with ia, -nya, from Proto-Malayic *ia, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(si-)ia, from Proto-Austronesian *(si-)ia.

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dia

1. he

   Dia bisa berbahasa Inggris.

   He can speak English.

2. she

   Dia mempunyai kegemaran menari.

   She has a passion for dancing.

• ia
• beliau

• IPA^(key): /dʲiə/

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”)).

dia m (genitive singular dé, nominative plural déithe)

1. a god

• Alternative vocative singular: dé
• Archaic nominative plural: dée
• Alternative genitive plural: dia
• Alternative dative plural: déibh

• aindia m (“false god”)
• bandia m (“goddess”)
• diaga (“divine”)
• dialathach (“theocratic”)

• Dia (“God”) (as a proper noun)

From Old Irish día (“day”), from Proto-Celtic *dyīus (compare Welsh dydd), from Proto-Indo-European *dyew-.

dia

1. (literary) day

• Dé (“on (a day of the week)”)
• dialann (“diary”)

• 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, 2013-2024

• Rhymes: -ia

• IPA^(key): /ˈdi.a/
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: dì‧a

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *dia, first-declension reshaping of Classical Latin diēs. Doublet of die.

dia m or f (plural unknown or uncertain) (Old Italian, chiefly in poetry)

1. day

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

dia f

1. feminine singular of dio

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

dia

1. inflection of dare:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• Ida, adì, dai

From Portuguese dia.

dia

1. day

dia

1. to eat

dia

1. inflection of dius:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

diā

1. ablative feminine singular of dius

From Latin Diana, Roman goddess of the hunt and wild animals.

• (Western, Milanese) IPA^(key): /ˈdia/
• Hyphenation: di‧a

dia m (feminine deja, masculine plural dia, feminine plural deje) (New Lombard Orthography)

1. god, deity

   Synonym: dee

From Portuguese dia.

dia (plural dia-dia)

1. day

   tudo dia ― always; every day (literally, “all day”)

• dia-a-dia (“day by day, by the day”)

From Malay liar.

dia

1. wild

   Synonym: haolo

Possibly connected with Swahili njia.

dia

1. step
2. journey
3. mark, track, imprint

Cognate with ia, -nya, from Proto-Malayic *ia, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(si-)ia, from Proto-Austronesian *(si-)ia.

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  • Rhymes: -iə, -ə
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  • Rhymes: -ia, -a
• Hyphenation: di‧a

dia (Jawi spelling دي)

1. Genderless third person pronoun; he, she, it.

   Dia adik lelaki saya.

   He is my younger brother.

• Ambonese Malay: dia
• Betawi: dia
• Indonesian: dia

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

dia

1. Nonstandard spelling of diǎ.

• 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.

Univerbation of di (“of/from”) +‎ a (“his/her/its/their”)

• IPA^(key): /dʲiə̯/

dia (‘his’ and ‘its’ trigger lenition, ‘her’ triggers /h/-prothesis, ‘their’ triggers eclipsis)

1. 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.

• diet

dia

1. simple past and past participle of die

Inherited from Old Occitan dia, from Vulgar Latin *dia, first-declension reshaping of Classical Latin diēs.

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dia m (plural dias)

1. day

• uei lo dia

• Patric Guilhemjoan, Diccionari elementari occitan-francés francés-occitan (gascon), 2005, Orthez, per noste, 2005, →ISBN, page 56.

Univerbation of di (“of/from”) +‎ a (“his/her/its/their”)

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dïa (‘his’ and ‘its’ trigger lenition, ‘her’ triggers /h/-prothesis, ‘their’ triggers eclipsis)

1. of/from his/her/its/their

For quotations using this term, see Citations:dia.

di (“of/from”) +‎ -a (relative pronoun)

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dïa·

1. of/from whom/which

dïa

1. (with preterite) when
2. (with subjunctive, positive only) if

   Synonym: má

For quotations using this term, see Citations:dia.

The conjunction is followed by the appropriate dependent verbal form, applying the nasal mutation to it. Unlike modern Irish, no factual-counterfactual distinction exists in the use of má and dïa; they are completely interchangeable.

• Middle Irish: dia
  • Irish: dá
  • Manx: dy
  • Scottish Gaelic: nan

Univerbation of do (“to/for”) +‎ a (“his/her/its/their”)

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dïa (‘his’ and ‘its’ trigger lenition, ‘her’ triggers /h/-prothesis, ‘their’ triggers eclipsis)

1. to/for his/her/its/their

For quotations using this term, see Citations:dia.

do (“to/for”) +‎ -a (relative pronoun)

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dïa·

1. to/for whom/which

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dia m

1. Alternative spelling of día (“god”)

• (conjunction): Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 día n-”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• di m

From Vulgar Latin *dia, from Latin diēs.

dia m or f

1. day (period of 24 hours)

• Occitan: dia

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “dīes”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 71

• dya (alternative spelling)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *dia, first-declension reshaping of Classical Latin diēs, from Proto-Italic *djous, from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (“heaven, sky”). Compare Old Occitan dia and Old Galician-Portuguese dia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdia/

dia m (plural dias)

1. day
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 4v:

     Qvãdo lo ſopo labã al dia t̃cero. q̃ ſe ẏua priſo de ſos amẏgos. E fue trã Jacob. Andadura .vij. dias. e alcãçol en el mõte de galaath.

     When Laban came to know on the third day that he was fleeing, he took his relatives and went after Jacob, walking seven days, and he overtook him on the hill of Gilead.

• noche f

• Ladino: diya
• Spanish: día
  • Papiamentu: dia

From Portuguese dia and Spanish día and Kabuverdianu dia.

dia

1. day

dia

1. expensive, dear

dia

1. water

• The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)

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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese dia, from Vulgar Latin *dia, first-declension reshaping of Classical Latin diēs, reformed from the accusative diem, from Proto-Italic *djēm, the accusative of *djous (“day, sky”), from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (“heaven, sky”). Distantly related to Deus, Zeus and Jove.

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈdi.a/
• Rhymes: -iɐ
• Hyphenation: di‧a

dia m (plural dias)

1. day
   2. period between sunrise and sunset
      • 1572, Luís Vaz de Camões, Os Lusíadas, 5th canto:

        Trazia o Sol o dia celebrado / Em que tres Reis das partes do Oriente,

        The Sun brought the celebrated day / In which three Kings from the East,

   4. period from midnight to the following midnight
   6. period of 24 hours
      • 1572, Luís Vaz de Camões, Os Lusíadas, 5th canto:

        Mas logo ao outro dia ſeus parceiros / Todos nús, & da cor da eſcura treua,

        But just the other day his partners / All naked, & coloured as the dark darkness,

   8. (astronomy) rotational period of a planet
   10. (in phrases) date celebrating a particular thing, usually an event, profession or person
   11. (in phrases) a unspecified period of time either in the past or in the future

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:dia.

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:dia.

• (antonym(s) of “period of daylight”): noite (“night”)

• adiar
• dia-a-dia
• diazinho (diminutive)

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”)).

• IPA^(key): /tʲia/

dia m (genitive singular dè, plural diathan or dèe)

1. god, deity

• ban-dia

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “dia”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 día”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

dia m (plural dias)

1. Misspelling of día.
2. Obsolete spelling of día.

From English deer.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdia/

dia

1. deer
   • 1936, Melville J. Herskovits, Frances S. Herskovits, Suriname folk-lore‎, New York: Columbia University Press, page 424:

     Bɔfru dɛ krei̯, Dia dɛ krei̯, Tamanwa 'ɛ krei̯. Nō mō ala den meti 'ɛ gowe wą' wą'. Nō mō Hagu drapɛ, 'ɛ bari, ‘Bia, bia, bia, / Mi yɛre suma dɛdɛ, / Ma karaki dɛ bro.’

     [Bofru e krei, Dia e krei, Tamanwa e krei. Nomo ala den meti e gwe wanwan. Nomo Agu drape e bari, 'Bia, bia, bia / Mi yere suma dede / Ma karaki e bro.']

     Buffalo was crying, Deer was crying, Anteater was crying. No sooner did all the animals go away one by one, than Hog called out, ‘Bia, bia, bia, / I hear a person died, / But his backside breathes.’

Borrowed from Arabic دِيَة (diya).^[1]

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dia class IX (plural dia class X)

1. bloodwite, wergeld, diyya

Inherited from Old Swedish di, dia, from Proto-Germanic *dijōną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck, suckle”).

dia (present diar, preterite diade, supine diat, imperative dia)

1. (intransitive) suck
2. (transitive) suckle

• di

• amma

Clipping of diabild.

dia c

1. diapositive

• dia in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• dia in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• dia in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• diat (when not preceding a verb)

dia

1. they (many), them (many) (third-person plural pronoun)

• IPA^(key): /ˈdi.a/

go dia

1. to delay

From Proto-Italic *dowjō. Compare also 𐌕𐌉𐌕𐌖 (titu) and cognate Latin dō.

dia (late Iguvine) (third-person singular subjunctive present)

1. (transitive) to give

• Ancillotti, Augusto, Cerri, Romolo (2015) “dia”, in Vocabolario dell'umbro delle tavole di Gubbio [Vocabulary of Umbrian and of the Iguvine Tables] (in Italian), page 12