pian

See also: pían, piān, pián, piǎn, and piàn

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese piã, or Spanish pian, from the native name in South America.

Noun

pian (uncountable)

  1. (medicine) yaws

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pian in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Esperanto

Adjective

pian

  1. accusative singular of pia

Finnish

(index pi)

Etymology

Singular instructive form of pika-.

Adverb

pian (comparative pikemmin, superlative pikimmin)

  1. soon
    Tule pian!
    Come soon!

Anagrams

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish pían, from Old Irish pén, from Medieval Latin pēna, from Latin poena (“punishment, pain”), from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “penalty”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pʲiənˠ/

Noun

pian f (genitive singular péine, nominative plural pianta or pianacha or piana)

  1. pain
    1. pain of suspense
  2. punishment, penalty

Declension

Alternative declension 1
Alternative declension 2

Derived terms

Verb

pian (present analytic pianann, future analytic pianfaidh, verbal noun pianadh, past participle pianta)

  1. (transitive) pain; punish

Conjugation

Alternative forms

  • pianaigh

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
pian phian bpian
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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

Italian

Adverb

pian

  1. Apocopic form of piano

Derived terms

Anagrams

Mandarin

Romanization

pian

  1. Nonstandard spelling of piān.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of pián.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of piǎn.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of piàn.

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.

Manx

Etymology

From Middle Irish pían, from Old Irish pén, from Medieval Latin pēna, from Latin poena (“punishment, pain”), from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “penalty”).

Noun

pian f (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

  1. pain

Synonyms

Derived terms

Mutation

Manx mutation
RadicalLenitionEclipsis
pianphianbian
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • “pían” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Romanian

Noun

pian n (plural piane)

  1. piano

Declension

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish pían, from Old Irish pén, from Medieval Latin pēna, from Latin poena (“punishment, pain”), from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “penalty”).

Noun

pian f (genitive singular péin, plural piantan or pianta or piantaidh)

  1. pain, pang, torture, torment, anguish, trouble, sorrow
  2. punishment

Verb

pian (past phian, future pianaidh, verbal noun pianadh, past participle piante)

  1. torment, torture, pain
  2. distress, annoy
  3. punish

Synonyms

  • piantaich

Derived terms

  • pianadair

References

  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “pían” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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