dalia

dali +‎ -a

• Hyphenation: da‧li‧a

dalia

1. exclamatory form of dali

• ilada

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian delija (“brave man; hero, soldier; Turkish bodyguard”), from Ottoman Turkish دلی (deli, “mad, insane; the grand vizier's Bosnian or Albanian bodyguard”). Modern Turkish spelling is deli.^[1] Doublet of deli.

• IPA^(key): [ˈdɒlijɒ]

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• Hyphenation: da‧lia
• Rhymes: -jɒ

dalia (plural daliák)

1. hero, valiant knight

   Synonyms: hős, (archaic, literary) bajnok, bajvívó, lovag, vitéz

2. (literary) a tall, muscular man

• dalia in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• dalia in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

• IPA^(key): /ˈda.lja/
• Rhymes: -alja
• Hyphenation: dà‧lia

dalia f (plural dalie)

1. dahlia

• alida, laida

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *dáljāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *delh₁-. Cognate with Latvian daļa (“part, share”), Proto-Slavic *doľa (“share, fate”).

dalià f (plural dãlios) stress pattern 4

1. fate

   Synonyms: likimas, laimė

• “dalia”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈda.lja/

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• Rhymes: -alja
• Syllabification: da‧lia
• Homophone: Dalia

Named after Swedish botanist Anders Dahl.

dalia f (related adjective daliowy)

1. dahlia (any plant of the genus Dahlia)

   Synonym: georginia

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dalia f

1. Alaska blackfish (Dallia pectoralis)

   Synonym: czarna ryba

• dalia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• dalia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /ˈdalja/ [ˈd̪a.lja]
• Rhymes: -alja
• Syllabification: da‧lia

dalia f (plural dalias)

1. dahlia

• “dalia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from Arabic دَالِيَا (dāliyā).

dalia class IX (plural dalia class X)

1. yellow powder (used as makeup and for burials)

• IPA^(key): /ˈdalja/

dalia

1. second-person singular imperative of dal