cria

cria

See also: CRIA and cría

English

A female llama with her cria

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cría (“kid; pup; cria”).

Noun

cria (plural crias)

1. A young South American camelid (llama, vicuna, guanaco or alpaca).

Anagrams

• ACIR, AICR, Acri, CAIR, CIRA, Cira, Crai, arci, cair

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Catalan

Etymology

From criar (“to raise”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾi.ə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾi.a/

Noun

cria f (plural cries)

1. upbringing, raising
2. offspring
3. young (baby animal)

Derived terms

• esgarriacries

Further reading

• “cria” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cria”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “cria” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cria” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Cornish

Verb

cria

1. to cry, to call
2. to call, to name

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French

Pronunciation

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Verb

cria

1. third-person singular past historic of crier

Anagrams

• cari, cira

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Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkʲrʲi.a]

Verb

·crïa

1. third-person singular present subjunctive conjunct of crenaid

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
·crïa	·chrïa	·crïa pronounced with /-ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾi.ɐ/

• Rhymes: -iɐ
• Hyphenation: cri‧a

Etymology 1

From criar (“to rear; to raise”).

Noun

cria f (plural crias)

1. young; offspring (a young animal, especially one that still depends on its mother)
2. (familiar) kid; young'un (a person’s son or daughter)
3. someone who is raised by a family but is not their biological child; a ward or an adoptee
4. (agriculture) livestock (farm animals being raised)

   Synonym: criação

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cria

1. inflection of criar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cria

1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of crer

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾja/ [ˈkɾja]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: cria

Verb

cria

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of criar