bia

See also: B.I.A., bi-a, bi'a, and BIA

Irish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bʲiə/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish bíad (compare Scottish Gaelic biadh).

Alternative forms

biadh (superseded)

Noun

bia m (genitive singular bia, nominative plural bianna)

food
inner part of shelled, rinded, food
substance

Declension

Declension of bia

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	bia	bianna
Vocative	a bhia	a bhianna
Genitive	bia	bianna
Dative	bia	bianna

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an bia	na bianna
Genitive	an bhia	na mbianna
Dative	leis an mbia don bhia	leis na bianna

Derived terms

Terms derived from bia

banc bia (“food bank”)
biachlár (“menu”)
bia éanáin (“wood-sorrel”)

bia-eolaí (“dietician”)
bia-eolaíocht (“dietetics”)
biafhachtóir (“food factor”)

bia stáin (“tinned food”)
biadhamhail
biamhar

Etymology 2

From Old Irish ·bia

Verb

bia

(obsolete) future analytic dependent of bí

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bia	bhia	mbia
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

"bia" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“biad” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Kunama

Noun

bia

water

References

Christopher Ehret, A Historical-comparative Reconstruction of Nilo-Saharan (2001), →ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

bien

Noun

bia f sg

definite feminine singular of bie

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

bia f sg

definite singular of bie

Old Irish

Alternative forms

bía

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbʲi.a/

Etymology 1

Verb

bia

first-person singular future absolute of at·tá

·bia

third-person singular future conjunct of at·tá

Etymology 2

Verb

·bia

third-person singular future conjunct of benaid
third-person singular present subjunctive conjunct of benaid

Mutation

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

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *bijō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰī-. Germanic cognates include Old English bēo (English bee), Old Frisian bē (West Frisian bij), Dutch bij, Old High German bīa, bini (German Biene, dialectal Beie), Old Norse bý (Danish and Swedish bi). The Indo-European root is also the source of Lithuanian bìtė, Latvian bite, Proto-Slavic *bьčela (Old Church Slavonic бьчєла (bĭčela), Russian пчела (pčela)), Proto-Celtic *beko- (Old Irish bech, Irish beach).

Noun

bīa ?

bee

Descendants

Middle Low German: bie, bē, beie
- Low German: bigge

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English beer.

Noun

bia f (plural bias)

(US, Brazil, rare) beer

Synonyms

cerveja

Romansch

Alternative forms

(Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Vallader) bler
(Sutsilvan) blear
(Puter) bger

Etymology

From Latin valde.

Adjective

bia m (feminine singular biara, masculine plural biars, feminine plural biaras)

(Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) much, a lot of

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from English beer.

Noun

bia (n class, plural bia)

commercial beer

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English beer.

Noun

bia

beer

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ɓiə˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ɓiə˧˧]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ɓiə˧˧]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French bière, from Middle Dutch bier.

Noun

bia

beer

Derived terms

bia bọt
hoa bia

Etymology 2

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 碑 (“stele”; SV: bi).

Noun

bia

tombstone; gravestone; stele; monument

Etymology 3

Noun

bia

target (for shooting); bullseye

Yagaria

Etymology

Probably a loanword from English beer.

Noun

bia

(Hua dialect) beer

References

John Haiman, Hua, a Papuan Language of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea

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