tía

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See also: tia, Tia, TIA, tiā, tỉa, and ti'a

Asturian

Etymology

From Late Latin thia, from Ancient Greek θεία (theía).

Pronunciation

Noun

tía f (plural tíes)

  1. aunt, female equivalent of tíu

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese tia, from Late Latin thia, from Ancient Greek θεία (theía).

Pronunciation

Noun

tía f (plural tías)

  1. aunt
    A miña tía é a irmá do meu pai ou da miña nai.
    My aunt is my mother's or father's sister.
  2. (colloquial) woman
    ¡Tías boas!
    Hot chicks!

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Icelandic

Etymology

Formed from the numeral tíu, perhaps by directly reanalizing the -u as the weak feminine oblique suffix in environments where tíu is the object in a sentence. Compare nía and átta, also fimma, sexa, sjöa.

Pronunciation

Noun

tía f (genitive singular tíu, nominative plural tíur)

  1. ten (playing card, bus, etc., numbered 10)

Declension

declension of tía
f-w1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative tía tían tíur tíurnar
accusative tíu tíuna tíur tíurnar
dative tíu tíunni tíum tíunum
genitive tíu tíunnar tía tíanna

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin thia, from Ancient Greek θεία (theía).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtia/
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Syllabification: tí‧a

Noun

tía f (plural tías, masculine tío, masculine plural tíos)

  1. female equivalent of tío; aunt; the sister, sister-in-law or female cousin or cousin-in-law of either parent
    Mi tía es la hermana o prima de mi madre o de mi padre.
    My aunt is my mother's or father's sister or female cousin.
  2. (colloquial, Spain) woman, chick
    ¡Tías buenas! ― Hot chicks!

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 爹 (SV: đa). Compare Mandarin 爹 (diē).

Noun

tía • (紫)

  1. (Southern Vietnam) father; dad
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Etymology 2

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 紫 (“purple”, SV: tử).

Adjective

tía

  1. (dated) purple
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Colors in Vietnamese · màu sắc (layout · text)
     trắng      xám      đen
             đỏ; thắm, thẫm              cam; nâu              vàng; kem
             vàng chanh              xanh, xanh lá cây, xanh lục, lục              xanh bạc hà; xanh lục đậm
             xanh lơ, hồ thuỷ; xanh mòng két              xanh, xanh da trời, thiên thanh              xanh, xanh dương, xanh nước biển, xanh lam, lam
             tím; chàm              tía              hồng
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