laia

laia

1. genitive singular of laid

laia

1. inflection of laiar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• leia

From Portuguese laia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaja/

laia (plural laia-laia)

1. kind, sort, type

   tudo laia; laia-laia ― all kinds, all sorts

2. manner, mode

   destunga laia ― this way

   qui laia? ― how? (literally, “what way?”)

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#l

Unknown.

• Rhymes: -ajɐ
• Hyphenation: lai‧a

laia f (plural laias)

1. (chiefly derogatory) those who share the same moral traits or characteristics: ilk, variety, race, kind

   Não gosto de gente da sua laia. ― I don't like your kind.

• Macanese: laia

• “laia”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “laia”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024

IPA^(key): /l̪a.ˈi.a/

laia

1. shellfish

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics