hiya

English

Etymology 1

Shortened from how are you?, with influence from hi. US, 1940s.[1]

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhaɪ(j)ə/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪə, -aɪjə
  • Homophone: higher (in some non-rhotic accents)

Interjection

hiya

  1. An informal greeting, hi, hello.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hello
    Hiya, love, how's you?

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Alternative forms

Interjection

hiya

  1. (martial arts) A kiai, shouted as a limb is swung in attack.

References

  1. ^ Eric Partridge (2005) “hiya”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 1 (A–I), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1007.

Cebuano

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: hi‧ya

Interjection

hiya

  1. giddyup
  2. (martial arts) A kiai, shouted as a limb is swung in attack.

Japanese

Romanization

hiya

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ひや

Sambali

Pronoun

hiyá

  1. he; she; it

Tagalog

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *həyaq (cf. Aklanon huya', Hiligaynon huya), from Proto-Austronesian *Səyaq (cf. Paiwan siaq).[1] Unrelated to Arabic حَيَاء (ḥayāʔ, shame).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /hiˈaʔ/ [ˈhjaʔ]
  • Rhymes: -aʔ
  • Syllabification: hi‧ya

Noun

hiyâ (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒᜌ)

  1. shame; feeling of embarrassment
    Synonym: (obsolete) bikalot
    Sa taong may hiya, salita’y panunumpa.
    To a person that knows shame, a word is a vow.
  2. act of shaming someone
  3. shyness; timidity
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Compare Cebuano hiya and English hiya / hi-yah.

Alternative forms

  • hi-ya

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /hiˈa/ [ˈhja]
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Syllabification: hi‧ya

Interjection

hiyá (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒᜌ)

  1. used to get a horse or work animal to go faster: giddyup!

References

  1. ^ Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*Seyaq”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Further reading

  • hiya”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Waray-Waray

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hja/

Pronoun

hiya (third person personal pronoun, objective and nominative case, common gender)

  1. him
  2. her
  3. he
  4. she

Yanomam

Noun

hiya (unclassified holonym; singulative hiya a, dual hiya kipë, plural hiya pë)

  1. boy

References

  • Perri Ferreira, Helder (2017) Yanomama Clause Structure[1], volume 1, Utrecht: LOT, →ISBN, page 115