mia

mia

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Miami.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Miami terms

• IPA^(key): /miː.ə/

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• Rhymes: -iːə
• Hyphenation: mi‧a

mia (uncountable)

2. (classical studies) An ancient bluffing game played with dice.

Clipping of bulimia; intentionally formed to resemble the given name Mia as form of personification and coded language. Compare ana.

mia (uncountable)

2. (Internet slang) Bulimia nervosa.

• ana, pro-ana

• I'm a', ima, IAM, I'ma, I'm'a, AIM, i'ma, IMA, I'm a, i'm'a, mai, I am, Ima, Mai, AMI, aim, Ima', MAI, I'm-a

Borrowed from Hokkien 命 (miā).

mia

1. destiny, fortune, luck, life

mia

1. possessive particle

• punya

• Lee, Nala H. (2022), “mia”, in A Grammar of Modern Baba Malay, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 351

• mir (German spelling)
• ma (unstressed form)

• IPA^(key): /miɐ̯/

Cognate with German mir.

mia

1. me (dative)

Cognate with German wir.

mia

1. we

mia

1. first person plural exclusive

mia

1. (archaic, poetic, Northern, Alghero) feminine singular of meu

Outside of poetry, certain dialects and sayings, proverbs and set phrases, this form is archaic and is normally supplanted by meva and meua.

• “mia”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “mia”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “mia” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mia” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From mi (“I, me”) +‎ -a (possessive suffix).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmia/

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• Rhymes: -ia
• Syllabification: mi‧a

mia (accusative singular mian, plural miaj, accusative plural miajn)

1. my, mine
   • 2025 September 29, Jorge Nogueras, “La plej mallonga tago”, in uea.facila‎^[1], archived from the original on 12 December 2025:

     Nu, unu tagon oni vokis min por ke mi iru tuj al la malsanulejo, ĉar mia sesjara filino trafiĝis je terura trafik-akcidento.

     Well, one day they called me so that I go immediately to the hospital, because my six-year old daughter got caught in a terrible traffic accident.

• “mia”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “mia”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-present
• Wells, John C. (1992), “mi, mine, my”, in Concise Esperanto and English Dictionary‎^[2], →ISBN, pages 115, 308, 313
• Benson, Peter J. (1995), “dibs, mine, my, of”, in Comprehensive English-Esperanto Dictionary‎^[3], →ISBN, pages 163, 330, 340, 354
• Butler, Montagu C. (1967), “mi”, in Esperanto-English Dictionary‎^[4], →OL, page 269
• Motteau, Achille (1907), “mi”, in Esperanto-English Dictionary‎^[5], →OCLC, page 92

mia

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

mia

1. feminine singular of mio

• ami, ima, mai

mia

1. person

• The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar (2013, →ISBN, page 685

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi(ə)/
• Homophone: mìo

mìa f (first person singular possessive)

1. feminine singular of mìo

mìa f (first person singular possessive)

1. feminine singular of mìo

mia

1. go

• Sven Liljeblad, Catherine S Fowler, Glenda Powell, Northern Paiute–Bannock Dictionary (2012, →ISBN (mia-)

mia

1. feminine singular of meu

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Rhymes: -iɐ
• Hyphenation: mi‧a

mia

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ja/

mia

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of mie

Inherited from Latin agnella. Compare Aromanian njauã.

• mială

• IPA^(key): /ˈmja/

mia f (plural miele, masculine equivalent miel)

1. ewe lamb

• mioară

• miel
• miță

mia f (masculine mes)

1. (possessive) my

Swahili numbers ^(edit)

		1,000
←  90	←  99	100	101  →	200  →
		10
Cardinal: mia

Borrowed from Arabic مِئَة (miʔa).^[1]

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mia (invariable)

1. hundred

mia class V (plural mamia class VI)

1. hundred

• asilimia

• miateini (“two hundred”)

• IPA^(key): [ˈmi.a]

mia

1. a monkey

• Edward A. Kotynski (1988), “Tabaru phonology and morphology”, in Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, volume 32, Summer Institute of Linguistics

• IPA^(key): [ˈmi.a]

mia

1. monkey

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

From Proto-Oceanic *mia, variant of *mian.

• IPA^(key): /mia/

mia

1. to dwell

• Ross, Malcolm D. (2016), Andrew Pawley, editor, The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: Volume 5, People: body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, →OCLC; republished as Meredith Osmond, editor, (Please provide a date or year)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.a/

mia

1. (stative) to be good

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[6], Pacific linguistics

Compare Balantak mian.

• IPA^(key): /mia/

mia

1. person, human being

• Anceaux, Johannes C. (1987), Wolio Dictionary (Wolio-English-Indonesian) / Kamus Bahasa Wolio (Wolio-Inggeris-Indonesia), Dordrecht: Foris