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Indonesian
Etymology
From Persian پیاله (piyâle, “cup, chalice”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: pi‧a‧la
Noun
piala (first-person possessive pialaku, second-person possessive pialamu, third-person possessive pialanya)
- cup.
- (Catholicism) chalice: A large drinking cup, often having a stem and base and used especially for formal occasions and religious ceremonies.
- Synonyms: cawan, kaliks, tuwung
References
- ^ Mohammad Khosh Haikal Azad (2018) “Historical Cultural Linkages between Iran and Southeast Asia: Entered Persian Vocabularies in the Malay Language”, in Journal of Cultural Relation (in Persian), pages 117-144
Further reading
Latvian
Noun
piala f (4th declension)
- (archaeology) phiale
Declension
Declension of piala (4th declension)
Spanish
Verb
piala
- inflection of pialar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
- second-person singular voseo imperative of piar combined with la