noia

• noya (obsolete)

See the proposals listed at noi.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈnɔ.jə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈnɔ.ja]

• Audio (Central)

  (file)

noia f (plural noies, masculine noi)

1. girl, young woman
2. slowworm

   Synonym: vidriol

• noia verda

• “noia” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From paranoia.

noia c (singular definite noiaen, not used in plural form)

1. (slang) paranoia (chiefly in a non-medical context)

• noja

Probably from Old Occitan enoja, from enojar. See more at annoiare. Cognate with French ennui.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔ.ja/
• Rhymes: -ɔja
• Hyphenation: nò‧ia

• Audio

  (file)

noia f (plural noie)

1. (obsolete) anguish, sorrow
   • mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 76–78; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Ma tu perché ritorni a tanta noia? / perché non sali il dilettoso monte / ch’è principio e cagion di tutta gioia?

     But why do you go back to such anguish? Why don't you climb the delightful mount which is the source and cause of every joy?

2. boredom, tediousness

   Synonym: tedio

3. bore, yawn, drag

   Synonyms: rottura, scocciatura, seccatura

4. nuisance, bother, trouble, hassle

   Synonyms: fastidio, rottura, scocciatura, seccatura, guaio

   Le dà noia? ― Does it bother you? (literally, “Does it give you trouble?”)

• annoiare
• annoiarsi
• noioso

• noia on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

• -iano

Clipping of paranoia.

• IPA^(key): /²nɔʏ̯jɑ/

noia m (definite singular noiaen, uncountable)

1. (colloquial) distress, anguish
2. (colloquial) frustration

• nóia

Clipping of paranoia, in reference to drug-induced paranoia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔ.jɐ/

noia m or f (plural noias)

1. (Brazil, slang) (often excessively) drug-addicted
2. (Brazil, slang) stoned; doped
3. (Brazil, slang, sometimes pejorative) crazy; mad
4. (Brazil, slang, derogatory) stupid; fool

noia m or f by sense (plural noias)

1. (Brazil, slang) a drug-addicted person
2. (Brazil, slang) a person under the effects of one or more drugs
3. (Brazil, slang) a crazy or mad person
4. (Brazil, slang) a stupid, foolish or uncivilized person