dia

Ambonese Malay

Etymology

From Malay dia.

Pronoun

dia

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

Bavarian

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

Cognate with German dir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d̥iɐ̯/

Pronoun

dia

1. you (dative, singular)

See also

Betawi

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.ˈ(j)a/ (Literary dialect)

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• IPA^(key): /di.ˈ(j)ɛ/ (Meester dialect)

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• Hyphenation: di‧a

Pronoun

dia

1. he

   Dia lagi ngelempus.

   He is sleeping now.

2. she

   Dia demen ama tu orang.

   She loves him/that person.

Synonyms

• ni orang
• tu orang

Catalan

Alternative forms

• día (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ia

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• jorn

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

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

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, 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.

Dutch

Etymology

Clipping of diapositief.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdi.aː/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: dia
• Rhymes: -iaː

Noun

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

1. (photography) slide

   Synonym: diapositief

Derived terms

Esperanto

Etymology

From dio +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: di‧a

Adjective

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

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

Finnish

Etymology

Shortened from diapositiivi, probably after the international example.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdiɑ/,
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Syllabification^(key): di‧a

Noun

dia

1. (photography) slide

Declension

Synonyms

• (slide): diakuva, kuultokuva (dated)

Derived terms

See also

• nega
• negatiivi

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

• IPA^(key): /dja/

• Audio

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Interjection

dia

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

   Antonym: hue

Derived terms

• à hue et à dia

Further reading

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

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese dia. Cognate with Kabuverdianu dia.

Noun

dia

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

Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: dia
• Rhymes: -jɒ

Noun

dia (plural diák)

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

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• dia in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

Iban

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diaʔ/

Adverb

dia

1. 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

• IPA^(key):

• Audio

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Pronoun

dia

1. he

   Dia bisa berbahasa Inggris.

   He can speak English.

2. she

   Dia mempunyai kegemaran menari.

   She has a passion for dancing.

Synonyms

• ia
• beliau

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʲiə/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish día (“god”), from Proto-Celtic *dēwos (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)

1. a god

Declension

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

Derived terms

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

Related terms

• Dia (“God”) (as a proper noun)

Etymology 2

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

Noun

dia

1. (literary) day

Derived terms

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

Mutation

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “dia”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 día (‘God’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, 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
• Entries containing “dia” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “dia” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Italian

Pronunciation

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

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)

1. day

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

dia f

1. feminine singular of dio

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

dia

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

Anagrams

• Ida, adì, dai

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese dia.

Noun

dia

1. day

Kituba

Verb

dia

1. to eat

Latin

Adjective

dia

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

Adjective

diā

1. ablative feminine singular of dius

Lombard

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

1. god, deity

   Synonym: dee

Macanese

Etymology

From Portuguese dia.

Noun

dia (plural dia-dia)

1. day

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

Derived terms

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

Malagasy

Etymology 1

From Malay liar.

Adjective

dia

1. wild

   Synonym: haolo

Etymology 2

Possibly connected with Swahili njia.

Noun

dia

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

Malay

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dia/
• Rhymes: -ia, -a
• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): ,

• Audio (MY)

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Pronoun

dia (Jawi spelling دي)

1. he, she, it

See also

Mandarin

Romanization

dia

1. 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

• IPA^(key): /dʲiə̯/

Determiner

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.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• diet

Verb

dia

1. simple past and past participle of die

Occitan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio (Gascon)

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Noun

dia m (plural dias)

1. day

Derived terms

• uei lo dia

References

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

Old Irish

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Determiner

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

1. of/from his/her/its/their
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 67^b24

     Inna c{h}enél fo·rrorbris, fos·roammámigestar dïa molad ⁊ dïa adrad.

     The peoples whom he has routed, he has subjugated them to his praise and to his worship.

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 134^d3

     Ɔ·riris-siu .i. ar·troídfe{a}-siu inna droch daíni, a Dǽ, dïa n‑anduch, air is fechtnach a n‑andach mani erthroítar húa Día.

     You will bind, i.e. you will restrain the evil men, O God, from their iniquity, for their iniquity is prosperous if they are not restrained by God.

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Pronoun

dïa·

1. of/from whom/which

Conjunction

dïa

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

   Synonym: má

For quotations using this term, see Citations:dia.

Usage notes

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.

Descendants

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

Etymology 3

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Determiner

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.

Etymology 4

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Pronoun

dïa·

1. to/for whom/which

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

dia m

1. Alternative spelling of día (“god”)

Further reading

• (conjunction): G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 día n-”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• di m

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *dia, from Latin diēs.

Noun

dia m or f

1. day (period of 24 hours)

Descendants

• Occitan: dia

References

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

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• dya (alternative spelling)

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdia/

Noun

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.

Antonyms

• noche f

Descendants

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

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese dia and Spanish día and Kabuverdianu dia.

Noun

dia

1. day

Plautdietsch

Adjective

dia

1. expensive, dear

Pom

Noun

dia

1. water

References

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

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

dia

Wikipedia ^pt

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

Quotations

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

Antonyms

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

Derived terms

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

Related terms

Adverb

dia (not comparable)

1. occurring on the specified day of the month

   O evento ocorreu dia um de fevereiro. ― The event occurred February first.

Quotations

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish día (“god”), from Proto-Celtic *dēwos (compare Welsh duw), from Proto-Indo-European *deywós (compare Sanskrit देव (deva), Latin deus, Old English Tīw (“Germanic god of heroic glory”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʲia/

Noun

dia m (genitive singular dè, plural diathan)

1. god, deity

Derived terms

• ban-dia

Mutation

Further reading

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

Spanish

Noun

dia m (plural dias)

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

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English deer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdia/

Noun

dia

1. deer

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic دِيَة (diya).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Noun

dia (n class, plural dia)

1. bloodwite, wergeld, diyya

References

Swedish

Etymology 1

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

Verb

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

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

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

• di

See also

• amma

Etymology 2

Clipping of diabild.

Noun

dia c

1. diapositive

Declension

Further reading

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

Tolai

Alternative forms

• diat (when not preceding a verb)

Pronoun

dia

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

Declension

Tswana

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdi.a/

Verb

go dia

1. to delay

Umbrian

Etymology

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

Verb

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

1. (transitive) to give

References

• 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