name
Meaning 1
A Chinese surname, variant of Jia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
chia
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈt͡ʃiː.ə/
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CMU ARPABET: CH IY1 AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A surname from Hokkien.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Malaysia, Singapore
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name
Meaning 3
A surname from Teochew.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Malaysia, Singapore
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noun
Meaning 4
A Mexican sage grown for its edible seeds, Salvia hispanica.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 5
Salvia columbariae, a sage with similar seeds, native to the southwestern US and northwestern Mexico.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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History
Etymology
Borrowed from Mandarin 賈/贾 (jiǎ), 郟/郏 (jiá), 甲 (jiǎ), and 家 (jiā).
Borrowed from either Hokkien 謝 /谢 (Chiā) or Teochew 謝 /谢 (zia7).
Borrowed from Spanish chía, from Classical Nahuatl chiyan (“seed of the chia plant”).
Across languages
Translations
25 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: chia — Salvia hispanica
- Chinese Mandarin: 奇亞籽 /奇亚籽 (qíyàzǐ) — Salvia hispanica
- Czech: šalvěj hispánská — Salvia hispanica
- Esperanto: ĉiao — Salvia hispanica
- Finnish: chia — Salvia hispanica
- German: Chia — Salvia hispanica
- German: Mexikanische Chia — Salvia hispanica
- Hungarian: chia — Salvia hispanica
- Hungarian: azték zsálya — Salvia hispanica
- Polish: chia — Salvia hispanica
- Polish: szałwia hiszpańska — Salvia hispanica
- Portuguese: chia — Salvia hispanica
- Portuguese: sálvia hispânica — Salvia hispanica
- Spanish: chía — Salvia hispanica
- Spanish: chan — Salvia hispanica
- Turkish: çiya — Salvia hispanica
- Afrikaans: chia — Salvia columbariae
- Cahuilla: pasal — Salvia columbariae
- Cupeño: paṣhal — Salvia columbariae
- Czech: šalvěj — Salvia columbariae
- Finnish: Salvia columbariae — Salvia columbariae
- German: Chia — Salvia columbariae
- German: Kalifornische Chia — Salvia columbariae
- Spanish: chía — Salvia columbariae
- Spanish: chan — Salvia columbariae