chia

See also: Chia and chía

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chía, from Classical Nahuatl chiyan (“seed of the chia plant”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃiː.ə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːə

Noun

chia (countable and uncountable, plural chias)

1. A Mexican sage grown for its edible seeds, Salvia hispanica.
2. Salvia columbariae, a sage with similar seeds, native to the southwestern US and northwestern Mexico.

Translations

Salvia hispanica

• Afrikaans: chia
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 奇亞籽 / 奇亚籽 (qíyàzǐ)

• Czech: šalvěj hispánská f
• Esperanto: ĉiao
• Finnish: chia
• German: Chia (de) f, Mexikanische Chia f
• Hungarian: chia (hu), azték zsálya (hu)
• Polish: chia (pl) f, szałwia hiszpańska f
• Portuguese: chia (pt) f, sálvia hispânica f
• Spanish: chía (es) f

Salvia columbariae

• Afrikaans: chia
• Cahuilla: pasal
• Cupeño: paṣhal
• Czech: šalvěj (cs) f
• Finnish: Salvia columbariae
• German: Chia (de) f, Kalifornische Chia f
• Spanish: chía (es) f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 芡歐鼠尾草 / 芡欧鼠尾草 (qiàn'ōu shǔwěicǎo)

See also

• chia seed

 

Anagrams

• chai, achi, Achi, AHCI, Chai

Classical Nahuatl

Noun

chia (inanimate)

1. Obsolete spelling of chiyan.

Esperanto

Determiner

chia

1. H-system spelling of ĉia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃja/

• Audio:

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Verb

chia

1. third-person singular past historic of chier

Galician

Verb

chia

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

Hokkien

For pronunciation and definitions of chia – see 遮 (“here”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 遮).

Nafaanra

Noun

chia

1. town

Portuguese

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃi.ɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃi.ɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃi.a/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃi.ɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃi.ɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ɐ/

• Rhymes: -iɐ
• Hyphenation: chi‧a

Verb

chia

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

Vietnamese

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 支 (“subdivision; to disburse”, SV: chi).

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕiə˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕiə˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ciə˧˧]

• Audio (Saigon):

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Verb

chia • (支, 𢺹, 𢺺, 𬨟)

1. (arithmetic) to divide

   chia (cho) ― (to be) divided by

   chia hết cho ― to be divisible by

2. to distribute; to share (something with others)
3. (grammar) to conjugate

Derived terms

• ăn chia
• chia buồn
• chia cắt (to divide; split)
• chia chác
• chia để trị
• chia động từ (to conjugate)
• chia được
• chia hết cho
• chia lìa
• chia lửa
• chia ly
• chia năm xẻ bảy
• chia ngọt sẻ bùi
• chia phôi
• chia rẽ (to divide people)
• chia sẻ (to share)
• chia sớt
• chia tách (to divide)
• chia tay (to part ways; break up)
• chia uyên rẽ thuý
• chia vè
• chia xa
• chia xẻ
• lia chia
• phân chia (to split up)
• rẽ thuý chia uyên
• số bị chia (dividend)
• số chia (divisor)
• số chia phương
• thời gian phân chia

 

Anagrams

• chai