hiya

Shortened from how are you?, with influence from hi. US, 1940s.^[1]

• hi-ya, hia, hiyah, heya

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪ(j)ə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aɪə, -aɪjə
• Homophone: higher (in some non-rhotic accents)

hiya

1. An informal greeting, hi, hello.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hello

   Hiya, love, how's you?

• hiya doin'

Onomatopoeic.

• hi-ya
• hiyah
• hi-yah
• haiya

hiya

1. (martial arts) A kiai, shouted as a limb is swung in attack.

Onomatopoeic.

• Hyphenation: hi‧ya

hiya

1. giddyup
2. (martial arts) A kiai, shouted as a limb is swung in attack.

hiya

1. Rōmaji transcription of ひや

hiyá

1. he; she; it

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *həyaq (c.f. Aklanon huya', Hiligaynon huya), from Proto-Austronesian *Səyaq (c.f. Paiwan siaq).^[1] Unrelated to Arabic حَيَاء (ḥayāʔ, “shame”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /hiˈaʔ/ [ˈhjaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: hi‧ya

hiyâ (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒᜌ)

1. shame; feeling of embarrassment

   Synonym: (obsolete) bikalot

   Sa taong may hiya, salita’y panunumpa.

   To a person that knows shame, a word is a vow.

2. act of shaming someone
3. shyness; timidity

Compare Cebuano hiya and English hiya/hi-yah.

• hi-ya

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /hiˈa/ [ˈhja]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: hi‧ya

hiyá (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒᜌ)

1. used to get a horse or work animal to go faster: giddyup!

• “hiya”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• IPA^(key): /hja/

hiya (third person personal pronoun, objective and nominative case, common gender)

1. him
2. her
3. he
4. she

hiya (unclassified holonym; singulative hiya a, dual hiya kipë, plural hiya pë)

1. boy

• Perri Ferreira, Helder (2017) Yanomama Clause Structure‎^[1], volume 1, Utrecht: LOT, →ISBN, page 115