harpia

See also: Harpia, hárpia, harpía, and harpią

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἅρπυιᾰ (Hárpuia).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ərˈpi.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aɾˈpi.a]

Noun

harpia f (plural harpies)

1. harpy (winged monster)
2. harpy (shrewish woman)

Further reading

• “harpia” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Galician

Noun

harpia f (plural harpias, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of harpía

Further reading

• “harpia” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin harpyia, from Ancient Greek Ἅρπυιᾰ (Hárpuia).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxar.pja/
• Rhymes: -arpja
• Syllabification: har‧pia

Noun

harpia f

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) harpy (fabulous winged monster with the face of a woman)
2. (derogatory) harpy (obnoxious, shrewish woman)

   Synonyms: baba-chłop, babochłop, chłopczyca, chłopobaba, dragon, herod-baba, hetera, kobieton, megiera

3. harpy eagle

   Synonym: harpia wielka

Declension

Declension of harpia

	singular	plural
nominative	harpia	harpie
genitive	harpii	harpii/harpij (archaic)
dative	harpii	harpiom
accusative	harpię	harpie
instrumental	harpią	harpiami
locative	harpii	harpiach
vocative	harpio	harpie

Further reading

• harpia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aʁˈpi.ɐ/ [ahˈpi.ɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aʁˈpi.ɐ/ [ahˈpi.ɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /aɾˈpi.ɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /aʁˈpi.ɐ/ [aχˈpi.ɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aɻˈpi.a/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐɾˈpi.ɐ/

Noun

harpia f (plural harpias)

1. harpy

Further reading

• “harpia” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “harpia”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “harpia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024