chia

See also: Chia and chía

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chía, from Classical Nahuatl chiyan (“seed of the chia plant”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtʃiːə/
  • Rhymes: -iːə

Noun

chia (countable and uncountable, plural chias)

  1. A Mexican sage grown for its edible seeds, Salvia hispanica.
  2. Salvia columbariae, a sage with similar seeds, native to the southwestern US and northwestern Mexico.

Translations

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Anagrams

Classical Nahuatl

Noun

chia (inanimate)

  1. Obsolete spelling of chiyan

Esperanto

Determiner

chia

  1. H-system spelling of ĉia

French

Verb

chia

  1. third-person singular past historic of chier

Portuguese

Verb

chia

  1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of chiar
  2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of chiar

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *ciir ~ *ciər (“to cut up”); cognate with Khmer ចៀរ (ciə, “to slice, trim”) and Bahnar tơjêr (“to cut into large flat pieces”).

Pronunciation

Verb

chia

  1. (arithmetic) to divide
  2. to distribute or share (something among a group of people)
  3. (grammar) to conjugate

Derived terms

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