ria
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ria"
Translingual
Etymology
Symbol
ria
English
Etymology
From German Ria, from Spanish ría (“inlet, estuary”), from río (“river”), from Latin.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹiːə/
- Rhymes: -iːə
Noun
ria (plural rias)
- (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
a coastal inlet formed by the partial submergence of an unglaciated river valley
Anagrams
Classical Gaelic
Pronoun
ria
- third-person singular feminine of re
Contraction
ria
Esperanto
Etymology
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
- IPA(key): /ˈria/
- Rhymes: -ia
- Hyphenation: ri‧a
Determiner
ria (accusative singular rian, plural riaj, accusative plural riajn)
- (possessive, neologism, nonstandard) their (singular)
See also
| 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 | ||
French
Etymology
From Galician.
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
ria f (plural rias)
Further reading
- “ria”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
Verb
ria
- (reintegrationist norm) inflection of rir:
- first/third-person singular imperfect indicative
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Irish
Pronoun
ria (emphatic riasa)
- (obsolete) third-person singular feminine of re
Contraction
ria
- (obsolete) contraction of re (“to”) + a, with various meanings
- ‘to his’ (triggers lenition): ria dheartháir ― to his brother
- ‘to her’ (triggers h-prothesis): ria hathair ― to her father
- ‘to their’ (triggers eclipsis): ria ndeartháir ― to their brother
Italian
Adjective
ria f
- feminine singular of rio
Anagrams
Malay
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ria/
- Rhymes: -ia, -a
- (Johor-Riau) IPA(key): [riə], [rʲə]
Adjective
ria (Jawi spelling ريا)
Synonyms
Further reading
- “ria” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
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]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈʁi.ɐ/
- Rhymes: -iɐ
- Hyphenation: ri‧a
Etymology 1
Alteration of rio (“river”), or borrowed from Spanish ría.
Noun
ria f (plural rias)
- (hydrography) ria (rugged coastal inlet)
- (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
- inflection of rir:
- first/third-person singular imperfect indicative
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Swedish
Etymology
Probably from Finnish riihi (“kiln, grain drying cabin”).
Noun
ria c
- a dryer, a kiln to dry corn; a traditional Finnish/Scandinavian wooden building used for indoor drying of corn
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | ria | rias |
| definite | rian | rians | |
| plural | indefinite | rior | riors |
| definite | riorna | riornas |
Verb
ria (present riar, preterite riade, supine riat, imperative ria)
- 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
| 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
- (transitive) to admonish
Conjugation
| 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 • (挗, 髭, 𣭯, 𩮭)
See also
Woi
Noun
ria
Yoruba
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɾī.ā/
Pronoun
ria