pian

Borrowed from Portuguese piã, or Spanish pian, from the native name in South America.

pian (uncountable)

1. (medicine, archaic) yaws

• “pian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• APNI, NIPA, PAIN, PANI, Pain, nipa, pain, pina, piña

pian

1. accusative singular of pia

Singular instructive form of pika-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiɑn/, [ˈpiɑ̝n]
• Rhymes: -iɑn
• Syllabification^(key): pi‧an

pian (comparative pikemmin, superlative pikimmin)

1. soon

   Synonyms: heti pitäen, hetkessä, kohta, silmänräpäyksessä, piakkoin, tuota pikaa, (colloquial) kohtsillään, kohtsiltään, piakkoin

   Tule pian!

   Come soon!

• pikaisesti
• pikapikaa

• “pian”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• apin, pain, pani

From Middle Irish pían, from Old Irish pén, from Medieval Latin pēna, from Latin poena (“punishment, pain”), from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “penalty”).

• IPA^(key): /pʲiən̪ˠ/, /pʲiənˠ/

pian f (genitive singular péine, nominative plural pianta or pianacha or piana)

1. pain
   1. pain of suspense
2. punishment, penalty

Alternative declension 1

Alternative declension 2

pian (present analytic pianann, future analytic pianfaidh, verbal noun pianadh, past participle pianta)

1. (transitive) pain; punish

• pianaigh

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “pian”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “pían”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 62

pian (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of piano

• pian piano

• Pina, pani, pina

pian

1. Nonstandard spelling of piān.
2. Nonstandard spelling of pián.
3. Nonstandard spelling of piǎn.
4. Nonstandard spelling of piàn.

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

From Middle Irish pían, from Old Irish pén, from Medieval Latin pēna, from Latin poena (“punishment, pain”), from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “penalty”).

pian f (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. pain

• piandagh

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “pían”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• IPA^(key): /pjan/
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: pian

pian f

1. genitive plural of piana

Borrowed from French piano or German Piano, from Italian piano.

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pian n (plural piane)

1. piano

From Middle Irish pían, from Old Irish pén, from Medieval Latin pēna, from Latin poena (“punishment, pain”), from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “penalty”).

pian f (genitive singular péin, plural piantan or pianta or piantaidh)

1. pain, pang, torture, torment, anguish, trouble, sorrow
2. punishment

pian (past phian, future pianaidh, verbal noun pianadh, past participle piante)

1. torment, torture, pain
2. distress, annoy
3. punish

• piantaich

• pianadair

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “pian”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “pían”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language