English Explanatory Dictionary

nias

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A young hawk; an eyas.
name
  1. An island of Indonesia, located on the western coast of Sumatra.
  2. A regency in North Sumatra, the capital is Gido.
  3. The ethnolinguistic group from this island.
  4. The Austronesian language spoken by this group.
noun
  1. Initialism of nonintentionally added substances.

Word forms

nias

Etymology

French niais. See eyas and nyas.

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