aria

From Italian aria, metathesis from Latin āerem, accusative of āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”). Doublet of air.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.ɹi.ə/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑːɹi.ə

aria (plural arias or arie)

1. (music) A musical piece written typically for a solo voice with orchestral accompaniment in an opera or cantata.

• Aari, Arai, RIAA, Raia

aria

1. feminine singular of ariu

• ariu

From Latin aer, borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr). Cognates include Italian aria and French air.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaria/
• Hyphenation: a‧ri‧a
• Rhymes: -aria

aria f (plural arie)

1. air
2. (music) aria, song

• “aria, ariu” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa
• Mathée Giacomo-Marcellesi (1997), Corse, LINCOM, →ISBN, page 3

From Latin āērea or āēre, from āēr.

aria f

1. air
2. appearance
   • Matteo Bartoli, Il Dalmatico:

     L'aria de nuát no stói bun.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Borrowed from Italian aria.

• IPA^(key): /a.ʁja/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

aria f (plural arias)

1. (music) aria

• “aria”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

From Dutch aria, from Italian aria, metathesis from Latin āerem, accusative of āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /aˈria/ [aˈri.a]
• Syllabification: a‧ri‧a

aria (plural aria-aria)

1. (music) aria (a type of musical piece written typically for a solo voice)

• “aria”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Inherited from Latin āera, Greek-type accusative of āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”).

aria f

1. air

• Antonio Pellizzer; Giovanni Pellizzer (1992), Vocabulario del dialetto di Rovigno d'Istria, pages 63-64
• Sandro Cergna (2015), Vocabolario del dialetto di Valle d'Istria, →ISBN, page 28

Metathesis from Latin āera, Greek-type accusative of āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”). See also aere.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.rja/

• Audio (l'aria):

  (file)

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -arja
• Hyphenation: à‧ria

aria f (plural arie)

1. air
2. look, appearance, countenance
3. (plural only) airs
4. wind (all senses)
5. (music) aria, song

• arai, raia

Hinde (1904) records kuarria as an equivalent of English say and speak in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /aɾia/

aria (infinitive kwaria)

1. to speak

   Njaragia Gĩkũyũ. ― I (usually) speak Kikuyu language.

(Nouns)

• mwario class 3, rwario class 11

• mwarĩrie class 3

• kwĩra, kuuga

• Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 360. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

Borrowed from Italian aria.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.rja/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -arja
• Syllabification: a‧ria

aria f

1. (music) aria

• “aria”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “aria”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Ultimately from Latin āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”).

aria f

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) air

• (Sutsilvan) leer
• (Puter, Vallader) ajer

• ariia

aria

1. axe

• “230906”, in 原住民族語言線上辭典 [Online Dictionary of Indigenous Languages]‎^[3] (in Mandarin), Taipei: 財團法人原住民族語言研究發展基金會 [Indigenous Languages Research and Development Foundation], 2014–2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɾja/, [ˈa.ɾja]
• IPA^(key): [ˈja.ɾja] (iotic enlenghtening)
• Rhymes: -aria
• Hyphenation: à‧ria

aria f

1. (non trisyllabic) alternative form of ària

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɾja/ [ˈa.ɾja]
• Rhymes: -aɾja
• Syllabification: a‧ria

Borrowed from Italian aria.

aria f (plural arias)

1. (music) aria (a musical piece written typically for a solo voice with orchestral accompaniment in an opera or cantata)

• → Tagalog: arya

aria f (plural arias)

1. female equivalent of ario (“Aryan”)

aria

1. feminine singular of ario

• “aria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Borrowed from Italian aria.

aria c

1. an aria

   sjunga arior

   sing arias

• → Finnish: aaria

• “aria”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “aria”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “aria”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)