Nia

Short for Antonia.

Nia

1. A female given name.
   • 2018 July 27, Dakin Andone, Dan Simon, “Officials still don’t know why a white man allegedly stabbed a black woman to death in a subway station”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 22 August 2022:

     Malika Harris places a candle down for her sister Nia Wilson at a makeshift memorial outside the MacArthur Bay Area Rapid Transit station, Monday, July 23, 2018, in Oakland.

• Ian, nai, INA, AIN, Ani, Ain, ani, ain', ANI, Ina, -ian, ain

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Νία (Nía).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈni.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈniː.a]

Nia f sg (genitive Niae); first declension

1. a river in Africa, flowing south of the Stachir

First-declension noun, singular only.

• “Nia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Nia f (plural Nieren)

1. kidney

From nia (“intention, purpose”), from Arabic نِيَّة (niyya).

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Nia

1. a female given name from Arabic