Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mia mia

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.57 in modern English

Syllables: mi-a mia
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An aboriginal shelter made from bark, a gunya.

Australian usage

name

A locality in the City of Greater Bendigo and the Shire of Mitchell, central Victoria, Australia

Example Sentences

"1913, William Henry Fitchett, The New World of the South: Australia in the Making, 2006 Elibron Classics, page 391, On the point of this “spear” they erected what looked like a mia-mia, a hut made of branches by the blacks ; across the road opposite to it the trunk of a tree was dragged, leaving a narrow track along which the escort must defile."
"Decorated with this mop of hair and the chaplet, the girl was led by her father to the mia-mia and put inside this with the four boys."
"Exhausted, he threw himself down at the door of the mia-mia of the emu and lay there as if dead."
""Dan is creeping through the bushes on the other side of the mia-mia.""

Etymology

Borrowed from Kurnai mai-mai or Wathaurong [Term?].

Word Breakdown

Root: mai-mai

Usage

Australian usage

Inflected Forms

mia mias (plural) mia-mia (alternative)

Synonyms

gunya humpy wurly

Questions

What does mia mia mean?: An aboriginal shelter made from bark, a gunya.
Where does mia mia come from?: Borrowed from Kurnai mai-mai or Wathaurong [Term?].

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