fia

• fi (Southern Bavarian, Tyrol)

From Middle High German vür, from Old High German furi, from Proto-West Germanic *furi, from Proto-Germanic *furi, from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-.

• IPA^(key): /fiɐ̯/
• Homophone: vier

fia (sandhi fiar) (Central Bavarian, Southern Bavarian, Carinthia)

1. for (directed at; intended to belong to)

   Des is fia di. ― This is for you.

2. in favor of, in support of

   I bin fia de Woaheit. ― I'm in favor of the truth.

3. for (by the standards of)

   Fiar an Hund is des a guade Leistung. ― For a dog, this is a good performance.

4. on behalf of

   Mei Sekretär kimmert si um des fia mi. ― My secretary will tend to that on my behalf.

5. kind / type of

   Wås fiar a Biachl is des? ― What kind of book is this?

fia

1. inflection of fiar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From fi- (“shameful, immoral, corrupt, dissolute, dirty, slutty”) +‎ -a (adjectival suffix).

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• IPA^(key): [ˈfia]
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: fi‧a

fia (accusative singular fian, plural fiaj, accusative plural fiajn)

1. shameful, ignoble

   La ekzekutisto, spite lia fia metio, estis bonkora viro. ― The executioner, despite his shameful trade, was a kind man.

2. naughty

   Sian fian liston Avo Frosto ĉiam kontrolas dufoje. ― Santa Claus checks always his naughty list twice.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪæ/

fia (plural fiawo)

1. king

fia

1. to burn
2. to demonstrate
3. to show
4. to teach

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fia

1. third-person singular past historic of fier

fia

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of fiar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From the fi variant of fiú (“son”) +‎ -a (possessive suffix).

• IPA^(key): [ˈfijɒ]
• Hyphenation: fia

fia

1. (with a possessive suffix) third-person singular single-possession possessive of fiú (“boy, son”): one’s son (irregular possessive-suffixed form specifically referring to a son)

   Coordinate term: (regular possessive-suffixed form) lánya (“one’s daughter”)

   A fia egy másik városban él. ― His/her son lives in another city.

For the possessive of fiú in the sense “boyfriend”, see fiúja.

• fia in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

• fiadh (obsolete)[1]

• IPA^(key): /fʲiə/[2]

From Old Irish fíad (“wild animals, game, especially deer”),[3] from Proto-Celtic *wēdus (“wild”). Doublet of the sense “waste”.

fia m (genitive singular fia, nominative plural fianna)

1. deer

fia

1. wild

• diasa fia m (“corn-cockle”)
• fia- (“wild; large, outsize”)

• fiáin

From Old Irish fíad (“uncultivated land, a waste spot; a territory, land”),[4] from Proto-Celtic *wēdus (“wild”). Doublet of the sense “deer; wild”.

fia m (genitive singular fia)

1. waste, wilderness
2. land, territory

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fia”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Entries containing “fia” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “fia” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

• fie

fia

1. third-person singular future of fire: (he/she/it) will be

• AFI, FAI, fai, ifa

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pəʀəs (compare with Malay perah and peras).

fia

1. to squeeze, to press

• rafia

• fia in Malagasy dictionaries at malagasyword.org

Eye dialect spelling. Masculine: fio.

fia f (plural fias, masculine fio, masculine plural fios)

1. Eye dialect spelling of filha.

   Synonym: fía

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fia

1. inflection of fiar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• fieu (Rumantsch Grischun)
• fiug (Sursilvan)
• fiac (Sutsilvan)
• fi (Surmiran)
• fö (Puter, Vallader)

From Latin focus (“hearth, fireplace”).

fia m

1. (Sutsilvan) fire

fia

1. want to do something

• fiá

fia

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of fiar

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-fia (infinitive kufia)

1. Applicative form of -fa: to die (for a cause)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fa

2. (idiomatic) to love someone deeply