piá

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pia"

Awa-Cuaiquer

Etymology

Compare Muellama piar.

Noun

piá

maize

References

Sergio Elías Ortiz, Lenguas y dialectos indigenas de Colombia

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /piˈa/ [pɪˈa], (faster pronunciation) /ˈpja/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpja/

Rhymes: -a
Hyphenation: pi‧á

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Tupi pi'a (“son”, vocative).[1]

Noun

piá m (plural piás)

(colloquial, South Brazil, chiefly Paraná) kid; child
Synonyms: menino; see also Thesaurus:menino
(colloquial, vocative, South Brazil, chiefly Paraná) man; dude

Adjective

piá (invariable)

(colloquial, South Brazil, chiefly Paraná) childish

Verb

piá

Eye dialect spelling of piar.

References

Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “pi'a”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 380, column 1

Further reading

“piá” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
“piá” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.

Spanish

Verb

piá

Superseded spelling of pia, which was deprecated in 2010.

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