tia

English

Alternative forms

• TIA

Proper noun

tia

1. Initialism of Telecommunications Industry Association.
2. Initialism of This is Africa, a business newspaper.

Noun

tia (plural tias)

1. (medicine) Initialism of transient ischemic attack.

Phrase

tia

1. Initialism of thanks in advance.

Anagrams

• AIT, IAT, ITA, TAI, Tai, ait, ita, tai

Arabela

Noun

tia (pl: tiaca)

1. house

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin thia.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ia

Noun

tia f (plural ties)

1. aunt
2. (colloquial) gal

Derived terms

• tia valenciana
• tieta

See also

• oncle

Esperanto

Etymology

From ti- (demonstrative correlative prefix) +‎ -a (correlative suffix of "kind").

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

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

Determiner

tia (accusative singular tian, plural tiaj, accusative plural tiajn)

1. that kind of, such a (demonstrative correlative of kind)

Usage notes

When combined with ĉi, the adverbial particle of proximity, tia ĉi means this kind of.

Derived terms

• tiaaĵo, tiaĵo

See also

Hokkien

Ilocano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tía.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtija/,
• Hyphenation: ti‧a

Noun

tia (masculine tio)

1. aunt

   Synonyms: ikit, anti

Italiot Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian zia, from Latin thia.

Noun

tia f

1. aunt

Maori

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *tia, from Proto-Oceanic *tian, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tian (compare with Malay tian), from Proto-Austronesian *tiaN.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtia/

Noun

tia

1. abdomen, stomach
2. umbilical cord

Etymology 2

From English deer.

Noun

tia

1. deer

Etymology 3

From English steer.

Noun

tia

1. steering

Verb

tia

1. to steer

References

• “tia” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Northeastern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtiɐ/
• Rhymes: -iɐ
• Hyphenation: ti‧a

Noun

tia f (plural tias, masculine tio, masculine plural tios)

1. aunt (sister of someone's father or mother, or an uncle's wife)
2. (slang) aunt (colloquial term of address for an older woman)
3. (slang, by extension) colloquial term of address for any female person
4. (Brazil, slang) a female clerk who performs a regular activity

   tia da limpeza ― cleaning woman, janitor

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

  (file)

Verb

-tia (infinitive kutia)

1. to put, to place
2. to apply, to bring to bear

Conjugation

Derived terms

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -tilia
  • Causative: -tilisha
  • Passive: -tiliwa, -tiwa
  • Other formations: -tia nguvu (“arrest”)

Swedish

Etymology

From the number tio (“ten”).

Noun

tia c

1. a number 10 (ten)
2. a person or an object by context associated with the number ten, for instance in sports and other forms of competing
   • a tenth place holder
3. a coin or banknote worth ten of a currency (most commonly referring to the Swedish ten kronor (SEK) coin or the now deprecated banknote)

   Synonym: guldtia

Declension

See also

• nolla, etta, tvåa, trea, fyra, femma, sexa, sjua, åtta, nia, tia, elva, tolva
• tjuga
• hundring

Anagrams

• ta i

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key):
• (Huế) IPA^(key):
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key):

Noun

tia • (濞, 𣈢)

1. (optics) a beam or a ray

   tia nắng

   a beam of sunshine

   (phóng xạ) tia X/Rơn-ghen

   X-/Roentgen ray (radiation)

2. (of liquid) a jet
3. (geometry) a ray

Anagrams

• tai