chia

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃiː.ə/

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• Rhymes: -iːə

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.

• chai, achi, Achi, AHCI, Chai

chia (inanimate)

1. obsolete spelling of chiyan

chia

1. H-system spelling of ĉia

• IPA^(key): /ʃja/

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chia

1. third-person singular past historic of chier

chia

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

chia

1. town

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Rhymes: -iɐ
• Hyphenation: chi‧a

chia

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

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

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

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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, to decline

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕiə˧˧], [t͡ɕi˧˧ ʔaː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕiə˧˧], [t͡ɕɪj˧˧ ʔaː˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ciə˧˧], [cɪj˧˧ ʔaː˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: chia, chi a

chia

1. Salvia hispanica

• chai