miya

From Japanese 宮(みや) (miya).

miya (plural miyas or miya)

1. (obsolete) A Japanese shrine.
   • 1878, N. McLeod, Epitome of the Ancient History of Japan, page 52:

     In the great matsuris or religious festivals […] the Samurais' wives and families may be seen holding these festivals at the miyas where the harlots worship and mixing freely in the crowd amongst them.

• Yami, Yima, IYAM

• IPA^(key):

mìya

1. mother

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

• miha

miya (active)

1. to say about oneself
2. to mean
3. they say (used at the end of phrases when telling traditional accounts/stories)

• IPA^(key): /mí.jàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

miyā̀ f (possessed form miyàr̃)

1. a kind of sauce or stew made with various meats and vegetables, eaten alongside tuwo

miya

1. Rōmaji transcription of みや

miya

1. he or she

miyà

1. cat

miyá

1. cat

Borrowed from Pontic Greek μυία (myía).

miya

1. (dialect, Rize) small fly (animal)

   Synonym: kör sinek

Unknown.

miya

1. (dialect, Çorum) lazy

“miya”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982

From Proto-Turkic *bẹńi (“brain”).

miya (plural miyalar)

1. (anatomy) brain

míyà

1. we (inclusive)

• ŋre (“we”) (exclusive)

• Frajzyngier, Zygmunt (2012) “miya”, in A Grammar of Wandala, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN

miya

1. snake

• Mary Laughren, Rob Pensalfini, Tom Mylne, Accounting for verb-initial order in an Australian language, in Verb First: On the syntax of verb-initial languages (2005)