harpia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἅρπυιᾰ (hárpuiă).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ərˈpi.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aɾˈpi.a]

harpia f (plural harpies)

1. harpy (winged monster)
2. harpy (shrewish woman)

• “harpia”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

harpia f (plural harpias, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of harpía

• “harpia” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Learned borrowing from Latin harpyia, from Ancient Greek ἅρπυιᾰ (hárpuiă).

• IPA^(key): /ˈxar.pja/
• Rhymes: -arpja
• Syllabification: har‧pia

harpia f

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) harpy (fabulous winged monster with the face of a woman)
2. (derogatory) harpy (obnoxious, shrewish woman)

   Synonyms: baba-chłop, babochłop, chłopczyca, chłopobaba, dragon, herod-baba, hetera, kobieton, megiera

3. harpy eagle

   Synonym: harpia wielka

• harpia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Learned borrowing from Latin Harpyia, from Ancient Greek ἅρπυιᾰ (hárpuiă, literally “snatcher”), from ἁρπάζω (harpázō, “to snatch; seize”).

• Rhymes: -iɐ

harpia f (plural harpias)

1. (mythology) harpy
2. harpy (a large and powerful double-crested, short-winged American eagle, (Harpia harpyja))

   Synonym: gavião-real

• “harpia” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “harpia”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “harpia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025