dia

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dia"

Ambonese Malay

Etymology

From Malay dia.

Pronoun

dia

he, she (3rd-person singular personal pronoun)

Bavarian

Alternative forms

dir (German spelling)
da (unstressed form)

Etymology

Cognate with German dir.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /d̥iɐ̯/

Pronoun

dia

you (dative, singular)

Catalan

Alternative forms

día (obsolete)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *dia, from Latin diēs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (“heaven, sky”). Compare Gascon dia and Spanish dia.

Pronunciation

(Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈdi.ə/

(Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈdi.a/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -ia

Noun

dia m (plural dies)

day (period of 24 hours)
- 2011, Tobies Grimaltos Mascarós, Idees i paraules: Una filosofia de la vida quotidiana, Universitat de València, →ISBN, page 41:
  Avui és un dia normal. És un dia en el qual no res (m')ha passat especialment remarcable.
  Today is a normal day. It's a day in which nothing especially remarkable happened (to me).
day (the part of the day between sunrise and sunset)
- 2011, Cinto Niqui Espinosa, Fonaments i usos de tecnologia audiovisual digital, Editorial UOC, →ISBN, page 362:
  En ona llarga durant el dia, a Catalunya, es poden escoltar les emissores Ràdio Montecarlo (RMC), als 216 kHz o Ràdio Alger, als 252 kHz.
  In long wave during the day, in Catalonia, you can hear the broadcasters Ràdio Montecarlo (RMC) at 216 kHz or Ràdio Alger, at 252 kHz.
Antonym: nit

Synonyms

jorn

Derived terms

adiar
a dies
avui dia
avui en dia
bon dia
diada
Dia de la Mare
dia feiner
dia i nit
dia laborable
dia per altre
migdia
qui dia passa, any empeny

Related terms

diari
diürn

Dutch

Etymology

Clipping of diapositief.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdi.aː/
Audio (file)
Hyphenation: dia
Rhymes: -iaː

Noun

dia m (plural dia's, diminutive diaatje n)

(photography) slide
Synonym: diapositief

Derived terms

kleurendia
diapresentatie
diaprojectie
diaprojector
diaraam
diascoop
diatheek

Esperanto

Etymology

From dio +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

IPA^(key): [ˈdia]
Rhymes: -ia
Hyphenation: di‧a

Adjective

dia (accusative singular dian, plural diaj, accusative plural diajn)

godly, of or pertaining to God or gods, divine

Finnish

Etymology

Shortened from diapositiivi, probably after the international example.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdiɑ/, [ˈdiɑ]
Rhymes: -iɑ
Syllabification^(key): di‧a

Noun

dia

(photography) slide

Declension

Inflection of dia (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative		dia	diat
genitive		dian	diojen
partitive		diaa	dioja
illative		diaan	dioihin
		singular	plural
nominative		dia	diat
accusative	nom.	dia	diat
accusative	gen.	dian	diat
genitive		dian	diojen diain^rare
partitive		diaa	dioja
inessive		diassa	dioissa
elative		diasta	dioista
illative		diaan	dioihin
adessive		dialla	dioilla
ablative		dialta	dioilta
allative		dialle	dioille
essive		diana	dioina
translative		diaksi	dioiksi
instructive		—	dioin
abessive		diatta	dioitta
comitative		—	dioineen

Possessive forms of dia (type kala)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	diani	diamme
2nd person	diasi	dianne
3rd person	diansa

Synonyms

(slide): diakuva, kuultokuva (dated)

Compounds

diaheitin
diakehys
diakuva
diapositiivi
diaprojektori
diasarja

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dja/
Audio (file)

Interjection

dia

yah!, cry to make (a) working animal(s) etc. advance or turn left
Antonym: hue

Derived terms

à hue et à dia

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese dia. Cognate with Kabuverdianu dia.

Noun

dia

day (period of 24 hours)
day (period between sunrise and sunset)

Hungarian

Etymology

Shortened from diapozitív (“diapositive”), after the German Diapositiv.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈdijɒ]
Hyphenation: dia
Rhymes: -jɒ

Noun

dia (plural diák)

(photography) slide, diapositive (transparent plate used with a projector for projecting images)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	dia	diák
accusative	diát	diákat
dative	diának	diáknak
instrumental	diával	diákkal
causal-final	diáért	diákért
translative	diává	diákká
terminative	diáig	diákig
essive-formal	diaként	diákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	diában	diákban
superessive	dián	diákon
adessive	diánál	diáknál
illative	diába	diákba
sublative	diára	diákra
allative	diához	diákhoz
elative	diából	diákból
delative	diáról	diákról
ablative	diától	diáktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	diáé	diáké
non-attributive possessive - plural	diáéi	diákéi

Possessive forms of dia
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	diám	diáim
2nd person sing.	diád	diáid
3rd person sing.	diája	diái
1st person plural	diánk	diáink
2nd person plural	diátok	diáitok
3rd person plural	diájuk	diáik

Iban

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /diaʔ/

Adverb

dia

there (not very far from the speaker)

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay dia, cognate with ia, -nya, from Proto-Malayic *ia, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(si-)ia, from Proto-Austronesian *(si-)ia.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dia/

Pronoun

dia

he
Dia sedang kelaparan.
He is starving now.
she
Dia suka musik pop.
She loves pop music.

Synonyms

ia
beliau

Irish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dʲiə/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish día (“god”), from Proto-Celtic *dēwos (compare Welsh duw), from Proto-Indo-European *deywós (compare Sanskrit देव (deva), Latin deus, Old English Tīw (“Germanic god of heroic glory”)).

Noun

dia m (genitive singular dé, nominative plural déithe)

a god

Declension

Declension of dia

Irregular

Bare forms

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dia	déithe
Vocative	a dhia	a dhéithe
Genitive	dé	déithe
Dative	dia	déithe déithibh (archaic, dialectal)

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an dia	na déithe
Genitive	an dé	na ndéithe
Dative	leis an dia don dia	leis na déithe leis na déithibh (archaic, dialectal)

Alternative vocative singular: dé
Archaic nominative plural: dée
Alternative genitive plural: dia
Alternative dative plural: déibh

Derived terms

aindia m (“false god”)
bandia m (“goddess”)
diaga (“divine”)
dialathach (“theocratic”)

Related terms

Dia (“God”) (as a proper noun)

Etymology 2

From Old Irish día (“day”), from Proto-Celtic *dīyos (compare Welsh dydd), from Proto-Indo-European *dyew-.

Noun

dia

(literary) day

Derived terms

Dé (“on (a day of the week)”)
dialann (“diary”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
dia	dhia	ndia
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Italian

Adjective

dia f

feminine singular of dio

Verb

dia

inflection of dare:
1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
2. third-person singular imperative

Anagrams

Ida, adì, dai

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese dia.

Noun

dia

day

Latin

Adjective

dia

inflection of dius:
1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

diā

ablative feminine singular of dius

Lombard

Etymology

From Latin Diana, Roman goddess of the hunt and wild animals.

Pronunciation

(Western, Milanese) IPA^(key): /ˈdia/
Hyphenation: di‧a

Noun

dia m (feminine deja, masculine plural dia, feminine plural deje) (New Lombard Orthography)

god, deity
Synonym: dee

Malagasy

Etymology 1

From Malay liar.

Adjective

dia

wild
Synonym: haolo

Etymology 2

Possibly connected with Swahili njia.

Noun

dia

step
journey
mark, track, imprint

Malay

Etymology

Cognate with ia, -nya, from Proto-Malayic *ia, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(si-)ia, from Proto-Austronesian *(si-)ia.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dia/
Rhymes: -ia, -a
(Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): [diə], [dʲə]
Audio (MY) (file)

Pronoun

dia (Jawi spelling دي‎)

he, she, it

Mandarin

Romanization

dia

Nonstandard spelling of diǎ.

Usage notes

English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle Irish

Etymology

Univerbation of di (“of/from”) +‎ a (“his/her/its/their”)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dʲiə̯/

Determiner

dia (‘his’ and ‘its’ trigger lenition, ‘her’ triggers /h/-prothesis, ‘their’ triggers eclipsis)

of/from his/her/its/their
- c. 1000, The Tale of Mac Da Thó's Pig, section 1, published in Irische Teste, vol. 1 (1880), edited by Ernst Windisch:
  Ailbe ainm in chon, ocus lan hEriu dia aurdarcus.
  Ailbe was the dog’s name, and Ireland was full of his fame.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

diet

Verb

dia

simple past and past participle of die

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan dia.

Pronunciation

Audio (Gascon) (file)

Noun

dia m (plural dias)

day

Derived terms

uei lo dia

References

Patric Guilhemjoan, Diccionari elementari occitan-francés francés-occitan (gascon), 2005, Orthez, per noste, 2005, →ISBN, page 56.

Old Irish

Etymology 1

Univerbation of di (“of/from”) +‎ a (“his/her/its/their”)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈdʲi.a]

Determiner

dïa (‘his’ and ‘its’ trigger lenition, ‘her’ triggers /h/-prothesis, ‘their’ triggers eclipsis)

of/from his/her/its/their
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 134^d3
  Ɔ·riris-siu .i. ar·troídfe{a}-siu inna droch daíni, a Dǽ, dïa n‑anduch, air is fechtnach a n‑andach mani erthroítar húa Día.
  You will bind, i.e. you will restrain the evil men, O God, from their iniquity, for their iniquity is prosperous if they are not restrained by God.

Etymology 2

di (“of/from”) +‎ -a (relative pronoun)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈdʲi.a]

Pronoun

dïa·

of/from whom/which

Conjunction

dïa

(with preterite) when
(with subjunctive, positive only) if
Synonym: má

For quotations using this term, see Citations:dia.

Usage notes

The conjunction is followed by the appropriate dependent verbal form, applying the nasal mutation to it. Unlike modern Irish, no factual-counterfactual distinction exists in the use of má and dïa; they are completely interchangeable.

Descendants

Middle Irish: dia
- Irish: dá
- Manx: dy
- Scottish Gaelic: nan

Etymology 3

Univerbation of do (“to/for”) +‎ a (“his/her/its/their”)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈdʲi.a]

Determiner

dïa (‘his’ and ‘its’ trigger lenition, ‘her’ triggers /h/-prothesis, ‘their’ triggers eclipsis)

to/for his/her/its/their

For quotations using this term, see Citations:dia.

Etymology 4

do (“to/for”) +‎ -a (relative pronoun)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈdʲi.a]

Pronoun

dïa·

to/for whom/which

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈdʲiːa̯]

Noun

dia m

Alternative spelling of día (“god”)

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

di m

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *dia, from Latin diēs.

Noun

dia m or f

day (period of 24 hours)

Descendants

Occitan: dia

References

Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “dīes”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 3: D–F, page 71

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

dya (alternative spelling)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *dia, from Latin diēs, from Proto-Italic *djous, from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (“heaven, sky”). Compare Old Occitan dia and Old Portuguese dia.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdia/

Noun

dia m (plural dias)

day
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 4v.
  Qvádo lo ſopo labá al dia t́cero. q́ ſe ẏua priſo de ſos amẏgos. E fue trá Jacob. Andadura. vij. dias. e alcáçol en el móte de galaath.
  When Laban came to know on the third day that he was fleeing, he took his relatives and went after Jacob, walking seven days, and he overtook him on the hill of Gilead.

Antonyms

noche f

Descendants

Ladino: diya
Spanish: día
- Papiamentu: dia

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese dia and Spanish día and Kabuverdianu dia.

Noun

dia

day

Plautdietsch

Adjective

dia

expensive, dear

Pom

Noun

dia

water

References

The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese dia (“day”), from Vulgar Latin *dia, from Latin diēs (“day”), reformed from the accusative diem, from Proto-Italic *djēm, the accusative of *djous (“day, sky”), from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (“heaven, sky”).

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒi.ɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒi.a/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈdi.ɐ/

(Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈdi.a/
Rhymes: -iɐ
Hyphenation: di‧a

Noun

dia m (plural dias)

day
1. period between sunrise and sunset
  - 1572, Luís Vaz de Camões, Os Lusíadas, 5th canto:
    Trazia o Sol o dia celebrado / Em que tres Reis das partes do Oriente,
    The Sun brought the celebrated day / In which three Kings from the East,
2. period from midnight to the following midnight
3. period of 24 hours
  - 1572, Luís Vaz de Camões, Os Lusíadas, 5th canto:
    Mas logo ao outro dia ſeus parceiros / Todos nús, & da cor da eſcura treua,
    But just the other day his partners / All naked, & coloured as the dark darkness,
4. (astronomy) rotational period of a planet
5. (in phrases) date celebrating a particular thing, usually an event, profession or person
6. (in phrases) a unspecified period of time either in the past or in the future

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:dia.

Antonyms

(period of daylight): noite (“night”)

Derived terms

adiar
dia-a-dia
diazinho (diminutive)

Related terms

diário
diurno
jeira
jorna
jornada
jornal
jornalismo
jornalista

Adverb

dia (not comparable)

occurring on the specified day of the month
O evento ocorreu dia um de fevereiro. ― The event occurred February first.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:dia.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish día (“god”), from Proto-Celtic *dēwos (compare Welsh duw), from Proto-Indo-European *deywós (compare Sanskrit देव (deva), Latin deus, Old English Tīw (“Germanic god of heroic glory”)).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tʲia/

Noun

dia m (genitive singular dè, plural diathan)

god, deity

Derived terms

ban-dia

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
dia	dhia
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Spanish

Noun

dia m (plural dias)

Misspelling of día.
Obsolete spelling of día

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English deer.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdia/

Noun

dia

deer

Tolai

Alternative forms

diat (when not preceding a verb)

Pronoun

dia

they (many), them (many) (third-person plural pronoun)

Declension

Tolai personal pronouns

	singular	dual	paucal	plural
1st person exclusive	iau	amir mir	amital mital	avet ave¹
1st person inclusive	-	dor	datal	dat da¹
2nd person	u	amur mur	amutal mutal	avat ava¹
3rd person	ia i	dir di	dital	diat dia¹
¹⁾ The plural pronouns lose the final -t when preceding a verb.

Tswana

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdi.a/

Verb

go dia

to delay

dia

Ambonese Malay

Etymology

Pronoun

Bavarian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Pronoun

See also

Catalan

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Synonyms

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

Further reading

Dutch

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Esperanto

Etymology

Pronunciation

Adjective

Finnish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Synonyms

Compounds

See also

French

Pronunciation

Interjection

Derived terms

Further reading

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

Noun

Hungarian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Iban

Pronunciation

Adverb

Indonesian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Pronoun

Synonyms

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

Noun

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

Italian

Adjective

Verb

Anagrams

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

Noun

Latin

Adjective

Adjective