Borrowed from Portuguese piã, Spanish pian, or French pian, said to be from a Tupi-Guarani word.

• IPA^(key): /pjɑn/, /piˈɑn/, /piˈæn/

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pian (uncountable)

1. (medicine, archaic) Yaws.

• “pian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “pian”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

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

Clipping of sampian, borrowed from Javanese sampéyan.

• IPA^(key): [pi.jan]
• Hyphenation: pi‧an

pian

1. (polite) Second-person singular pronoun: you, your, yours

Inherited from Latin planus.

• IPA^(key): /pjɑ̃/

pian m (plural pians)

1. (Troyen) map
2. plan

• Daunay, Jean (1998), Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎^[1] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
• Baudoin, Alphonse (1885), Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎^[2] (in French), Troyes

• IPA^(key): /ˈpian/
• Rhymes: -ian
• Syllabification: pi‧an

pian

1. accusative singular of pia

Singular instructive form of pika- (“quick, fast”).

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

pian (comparative pikemmin, superlative pikimmin)

1. soon (within a short time)

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

   Tule pian!

   Come soon!

   Juna tulee ihan pian.

   The train will arrive any moment now.

   Teen sen niin pian kuin mahdollista.

   I will do it as soon as possible.

2. soon, quickly

   Synonyms: nopeasti, äkkiä

• pikaisesti
• pikapikaa

• “pian”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• 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”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /pʲiən̪ˠ/, /pʲiənˠ/^[2]

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

1. pain
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

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “pian”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 838; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “pian”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

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 (plural [please provide])

1. pain

• piandagh

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “pían”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjan/
• 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
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “pían”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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