bia

From Middle High German wie, from Old High German wio, hwio from Proto-Germanic *hwī, instrumental of *hwaz (“what”). Cognate with German wie, English why, Icelandic hví.

bia

1. (Sette Comuni, interrogative) how

   Bia hòosentza d'ôarn khindar?

   What are your children's names?

   (literally, “How are your children called?”)

bia

1. (Sette Comuni) how

   Tüa bia 's ghéet bóol.

   Do it how it's done properly.

• “bia” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

• IPA^(key): /bʲiə/

From Old Irish bíad (compare Scottish Gaelic biadh).

• biadh (superseded)

bia m (genitive singular bia, nominative plural bianna)

1. food
2. inner part of shelled, rinded, food
3. substance

From Old Irish ·bia

bia

1. (obsolete) future analytic dependent of bí

• "bia" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “biad” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

bia

1. water

• Ehret, Christopher (2001) A Historical-Comparative Reconstruction of Nilo-Saharan (SUGIA, Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika: Beihefte; 12)‎, Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, →ISBN.

• bien

bia f sg

1. definite feminine singular of bie

bia f sg

1. definite singular of bie

• bía

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʲi.a/

bia

1. first-person singular future absolute of at·tá

·bia

1. third-person singular future conjunct of at·tá

·bia

1. third-person singular future conjunct of benaid
2. third-person singular present subjunctive conjunct of benaid

From Proto-Germanic *bijō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰī-. Germanic cognates include Old English bēo (English bee), Old Frisian bē (West Frisian bij), Dutch bij, Old High German bīa, bini (German Biene, dialectal Beie), Old Norse bý (Danish and Swedish bi). The Indo-European root is also the source of Lithuanian bìtė, Latvian bite, Proto-Slavic *bьčela (Old Church Slavonic бьчєла (bĭčela), Russian пчела (pčela)), Proto-Celtic *beko- (Old Irish bech, Irish beach).

bīa ?

1. bee

• Middle Low German: bie, bē, beie
  • Low German: bigge
  • Plautdietsch: Bie

Borrowed from English beer.

bia f (plural bias)

1. (US, Brazil, rare) beer

• cerveja

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Vallader) bler
• (Sutsilvan) blear
• (Puter) bger

From Latin valde.

bia m (feminine singular biara, masculine plural biars, feminine plural biaras)

1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) much, a lot of

Borrowed from English beer.

bia (n class, plural bia)

1. commercial beer

• pombe (“native beer”)

From English beer.

bia

1. beer

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓiə˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓiə˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɓiə˧˧]

Borrowed from French bière, from Middle Dutch bier.

bia

1. beer

   bụng bia

   a beer belly

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 碑 (“stele”; SV: bi).

bia

1. tombstone; gravestone; stele; monument

bia

1. target (for shooting); bullseye

Probably a loanword from English beer.

bia

1. (Hua dialectal) beer

• John Haiman, Hua, a Papuan Language of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea