ria

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ria"

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Riang.

Symbol

ria

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Reang.

English

Etymology

From German Ria, from Spanish ría (inlet, estuary), from río (river), from Latin.

Pronunciation

Noun

ria (plural rias)

  1. (geography) A narrow inlet of the sea formed by a flooded unglaciated river valley. [from 19th c.]
    • 2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 49:
      Flinders had advised Baudin to stop in Port Jackson (the ria of what is now Sydney) when in need of refreshment [] .

Translations

Anagrams

Classical Gaelic

Pronoun

ria

  1. third-person singular feminine of re

Contraction

ria

  1. contraction of re (to) + a, with various meanings

Esperanto

Etymology

ri +‎ -a

Pronunciation

  • Audio:(file)
  • IPA(key): /ˈria/
  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Hyphenation: ri‧a

Determiner

ria (accusative singular rian, plural riaj, accusative plural riajn)

  1. (possessive, neologism, nonstandard) their (singular)

See also

Esperanto personal pronouns
singular plural
nominative accusative possessive nominative accusative possessive
first person  mi  min  mia  ni  nin  nia
second
person
formal  vi  vin  via  vi  vin  via
familiar1  ci  cin  cia
third
person
masculine  li  lin  lia
feminine  ŝi  ŝin  ŝia
neuter  ĝi  ĝin  ĝia
gender-neutral2  ri
ŝli
 rin
ŝlin
 ria
ŝlia
reflexive  si  sin  sia  si  sin  sia
indefinite  oni  onin  onia  oni  onin  onia

1 The second person familiar pronouns are archaic.

2 The proposed gender-neutral third-person singular pronouns ri (rin, ria) and ŝli (ŝlin, ŝlia) are not widely used.

3 The proposed third-person feminine plural pronoun iŝi (iŝin, iŝia) is not widely used.

French

Etymology

From Galician.

Pronunciation

  • Audio:(file)

Noun

ria f (plural rias)

  1. ria
    Synonym: aber

Further reading

Galician

Verb

ria

  1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of rir:
    1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative
    2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    3. third-person singular imperative

Irish

Pronoun

ria (emphatic riasa)

  1. (obsolete) third-person singular feminine of re

Contraction

ria

  1. (obsolete) contraction of re (to) + a, with various meanings
    ‘to his’ (triggers lenition): ria dheartháirto his brother
    ‘to her’ (triggers h-prothesis): ria hathairto her father
    ‘to their’ (triggers eclipsis): ria ndeartháirto their brother

Italian

Adjective

ria f

  1. feminine singular of rio

Anagrams

Malay

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ria/
  • Rhymes: -ia, -a
  • (Johor-Riau) IPA(key): [riə], [rʲə]

Adjective

ria (Jawi spelling ريا)

  1. happy

Synonyms

Further reading

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈʁi.ɐ/ [ˈhi.ɐ]
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈʁi.ɐ/ [ˈχi.ɐ]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈʁi.a/ [ˈhi.a]

  • Rhymes: -iɐ
  • Hyphenation: ri‧a

Etymology 1

Alteration of rio (river), or borrowed from Spanish ría.

Noun

ria f (plural rias)

  1. (hydrography) ria (rugged coastal inlet)
  2. (hydrography) branch; inlet (body of water extending from or flowing into a larger one)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

ria

  1. inflection of rir:
    1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative
    2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    3. third-person singular imperative

Swedish

Etymology

Probably from Finnish riihi (kiln, grain drying cabin).

Noun

ria c

  1. a dryer, a kiln to dry corn; a traditional Finnish/Scandinavian wooden building used for indoor drying of corn

Declension

Verb

ria (present riar, preterite riade, supine riat, imperative ria)

  1. to dry corn in a kiln
    Den finska rågen stod högt i anseende till utsäde, beroende på att den fick stå ute att eftermogna i skyl, innan den riades, under det att den svenska vanligen riades omedelbart efter skärningen.
    The Finnish rye was highly regarded as seedcorn because it was left outdoors to ripen in ricks before being taken to be dried, while the Swedish rye was usually dried immediately after harvest.

Conjugation

Conjugation of ria (weak)
active passive
infinitive ria rias
supine riat riats
imperative ria
imper. plural1 rien
present past present past
indicative riar riade rias riades
ind. plural1 ria riade rias riades
subjunctive2 rie riade ries riades
present participle riande
past participle riad

1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Ternate

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɾi.a]

Verb

ria

  1. (transitive) to admonish

Conjugation

Conjugation of ria
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person toria foria miria
2nd person noria niria
3rd
person
masculine oria iria
yoria (archaic)
feminine moria
neuter iria

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Noun

(classifier bộ) ria • (, , 𣭯, 𩮭)

  1. a mustache
    Synonym: ria mép

See also

Woi

Noun

ria

  1. blood

Yoruba

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɾī.ā/

Pronoun

ria

  1. (Ekiti, Ijesha) our, ours, us
    Synonym: tìwa