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pia

pia noun: the pia mater, the innermost of the meninges that protect the brain and spinal cord.

Noun (1)

pia

  1. The pia mater, the innermost of the meninges that protect the brain and spinal cord.
    • One screen in the theatre relays live colour pictures of Harkness and his colleague Tiernan Byrnes's progress, cutting and pushing through first the dura, then the arachnoid and finally the pia, the thin, spider's web-type membranes that cover the brain itself.2009 January 25, Denis Campbell, “Kian, 4, needs a miracle. He's in the right place”, in The Observer

Noun (2)

pia (uncountable)

  1. Polynesian arrowroot (Tacca leontopetaloides), whose fleshy tubers yield arrowroot starch.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: PIA

PIA

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Proto-Indo-Aryan.

Noun (3) capitalized: PIA

PIA (countable and uncountable, plural PIAs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of porcine intestinal adenomatosis.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of personal injury accident.
  3. (Internet, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of pain in the ass.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of penis in anus.
  5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of privacy impact assessment.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Pia

Pia

  1. A female given name from Latin.
  2. A surname

Proper noun (3) capitalized: Pia

Pia

  1. A town and commune of Pyrénées-Orientales department, Occitania, France, historically part of Northern Catalonia.

pia meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali

pia in Hindi

पिया

pia in Tamil

பியா, பீயா

pia in Marathi

पिया

pia in Bengali

পিয়া, পিয়াহ
More languagesFewer languages
pia in Telugu
పియా, పీయా
pia in Malayalam
പിയാ
pia in Kannada
ಪಿಯಾ
pia in Gujarati
પિયા
pia in Odia
ପିଆ, ପିଯ଼ା
pia in Nepali
पिया, पियाह

Forms of pia

pluralPIAs

Origin of pia

Borrowed from Hawaiian pia.

Words formed from pia

Phrases with pia

Questions about pia

What does pia mean?
Pia means the pia mater, the innermost of the meninges that protect the brain and spinal cord.
What is pia in Hindi?
Pia in Hindi is पिया. See Pia meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is pia?
Pia can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of pia?
The plural of pia is PIAs.

Words near pia in the dictionary

  1. pi-plus
  2. pi-plus meson
  3. pi-pluses
  4. pi-system
  5. pi-systems
  6. pia
  7. Pia carries
  8. Pia carry
  9. pia mater
  10. pia maters
  11. PIAAC

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pia (page history and authors); PIA (page history and authors); Pia (page history and authors); pia (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pia (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pia (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pia (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pia (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pia (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pia (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pia (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pia (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pia (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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