aria

See also: Appendix:Variations of "aria"

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér

Proto-Hellenic *auhḗr

Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr)bor.

Latin āera

Italian ariabor.

English aria

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.ɹi.ə/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑːɹi.ə

Noun

aria (plural arias or arie)

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

Derived terms

• arialike

Translations

type of musical piece

• Afrikaans: aria
• Arabic: نَغَم m (naḡam)
• Armenian: մեներգ (hy) (menerg)
• Bulgarian: а́рия (bg) f (árija)
• Catalan: ària (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 詠嘆調 / 咏叹调 (zh) (yǒngtàndiào), 唱段 (zh) (chàngduàn), (North China, Yuan dynasty) 北曲 (zh) (běiqǔ)

• Czech: árie (cs) f
• Danish: arie (da) c
• Esperanto: ario
• Finnish: aaria (fi)
• French: aria (fr) f
• Galician: aria (gl) f
• Gallurese: aria f
• Georgian: არია (aria)
• German: Arie (de) f
• Greek: άρια (el) f (ária)
• Hungarian: ária (hu)
• Indonesian: aria (id)
• Italian: aria (it) f
• Japanese: アリア (ja) (aria), 詠唱 (ja) (えいしょう, eishō)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: arya (ku) f

• Latvian: ārija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: arija f
• Malay: aria
• Manx: aria f
• Māori: āria
• Polish: aria (pl) f
• Portuguese: ária (pt) f
• Romanian: arie (ro) f
• Russian: а́рия (ru) f (árija)
• Sardinian:

  Logudorese: àera f

• Sassarese: aria f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: а̑рија f

  Latin: ȃrija (sh) f

• Slovak: ária f
• Slovene: arija f
• Spanish: aria (es) f
• Swedish: aria (sv) c
• Tagalog: arya

Anagrams

• Aari, Arai, RIAA, Raia

Asturian

Adjective

aria

1. feminine singular of ariu

Corsican

Alternative forms

• ariu

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

aria f (plural arie)

1. air
2. (music) aria, song

References

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

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin āērea or āēre, from āēr.

Noun

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)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian aria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ʁja/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

Noun

aria f (plural arias)

1. (music) aria

Further reading

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

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

aria (plural aria-aria)

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

Further reading

• “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

Istriot

Etymology

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

Noun

aria f

1. air

References

• 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

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.rja/

• Audio (l'aria):

  (file)

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -arja
• Hyphenation: à‧ria

Noun

aria f (plural arie)

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

Related terms

• aerare
• aere
• aereo
• aria-acqua
• aria-aria
• aria-terra
• arieggiare
• arioso
• darsi delle arie

Descendants

• → Afrikaans: aria
• → Asturian: aria
• → Azerbaijani: ariya
• → Belarusian: арыя (aryja)
• → Bulgarian: ария (arija)
• → Catalan: ària
• → Czech: árie
• → Danish: arie
• → Dutch: arie
• → English: aria
• → Esperanto: ario
• → Estonian: aaria
• → French: aria
• → Galician: aria
• → Gallurese: aria
• → Irish: áiria
• → Georgian: არია (aria)
• → German: Arie
• → Greek: άρια (ária)
• → Hungarian: ária
• → Japanese: アリア (aria)
• → Kazakh: ария (ariä)
• → Latvian: ārija
• → Lithuanian: arija
• → Malay: aria
  • Indonesian: aria
• → Māori: āria
• → Mongolian: ари (ari)
• → Northern Kurdish: arya
• → Polish: aria
• → Portuguese: ária
• → Romanian: arie
• → Russian: а́рия (árija)
• → Sardinian: àera
• → Sassarese: aria
• → Sicilian: aria
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: а̑рија

  Latin script: ȃrija

• → Slovene: arija
• → Spanish: aria
  • → Tagalog: arya
• → Slovak: ária
• → Swedish: aria
  • → Finnish: aaria
• → Turkish: arya
• → Ukrainian: арія (arija)
• → Uzbek: ariya

Anagrams

• arai, raia

Kikuyu

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɾia/

Verb

aria (infinitive kwaria)

1. to speak

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

Derived terms

(Nouns)

• mwario class 3, rwario class 11

Related terms

• mwarĩrie class 3

See also

• kwĩra, kuuga

Further reading

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

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér

Proto-Hellenic *auhḗr

Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr)bor.

Latin āera

Italian ariabor.

Polish aria

Borrowed from Italian aria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.rja/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -arja
• Syllabification: a‧ria

Noun

aria f

1. (music) aria

Declension

Declension of aria

	singular	plural
nominative	aria	arie
genitive	arii	arii/aryj (archaic)
dative	arii	ariom
accusative	arię	arie
instrumental	arią	ariami
locative	arii	ariach
vocative	ario	arie

Related terms

noun

• arieta
• arietka
• arietta

Further reading

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

Romansh

Etymology

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

Noun

aria f

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

Synonyms

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

Saaroa

Alternative forms

• ariia

Noun

aria

1. axe

References

• “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

Sicilian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

aria f

1. (non trisyllabic) alternative form of ària

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian aria.

Noun

aria f (plural arias)

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

Descendants

• → Tagalog: arya

Etymology 2

Noun

aria f (plural arias)

1. female equivalent of ario (“Aryan”)

Adjective

aria

1. feminine singular of ario

Further reading

• “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

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian aria.

Noun

aria c

1. an aria

   sjunga arior

   sing arias

Declension

Declension of aria

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	aria	arias
	definite	arian	arians
plural	indefinite	arior	ariors
	definite	ariorna	ariornas

Descendants

• → Finnish: aaria

References

• “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)