faja
Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Latin fāgea, feminine form of fāgeus (“beechen”).
Pronunciation
Noun
faja f (plural fages)
Related terms
Further reading
- “faja”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
Hungarian
Etymology
faj (“species”) + -a (possessive suffix)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈfɒjɒ]
- Hyphenation: fa‧ja
Noun
faja
- third-person singular single-possession possessive of faj
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | faja | — |
| accusative | faját | — |
| dative | fajának | — |
| instrumental | fajával | — |
| causal-final | fajáért | — |
| translative | fajává | — |
| terminative | fajáig | — |
| essive-formal | fajaként | — |
| essive-modal | fajául | — |
| inessive | fajában | — |
| superessive | faján | — |
| adessive | fajánál | — |
| illative | fajába | — |
| sublative | fajára | — |
| allative | fajához | — |
| elative | fajából | — |
| delative | fajáról | — |
| ablative | fajától | — |
| non-attributive possessive – singular |
fajáé | — |
| non-attributive possessive – plural |
fajáéi | — |
Indonesian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈfad͡ʒa/ [ˈfa.d͡ʒa]
- Rhymes: -ad͡ʒa
- Syllabification: fa‧ja
Noun
faja (plural faja-faja)
Further reading
- “faja” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Polish
Etymology
Back-formation from fajka.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfa.ja/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -aja
- Syllabification: fa‧ja
Noun
faja f
- augmentative of fajka
- Synonym: fajczysko
- (colloquial, derogatory) dweeb, hacker, klutz, nebbish
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:niezdara
Declension
Declension of faja
Related terms
adjectives
- fajczany
- fajczarski
- fajkowaty
- fajkowy
adverb
- fajkowato
nouns
- fajczarnia
- fajczarz
- fajczyna
- fajczysko
- fajeczka
- fajka
- fajka pokoju
- fajka wodna
- fajkarnia
- fajkarz
Further reading
- faja in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- faja in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfaxa/ [ˈfa.xa]
- Rhymes: -axa
- Syllabification: fa‧ja
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Aragonese faixa, from Latin fascia,[1] whence also the now rare inherited doublet haza (“portion of land for sowing”).[2]
Noun
faja f (plural fajas)
- strip, band, sash
- belt
- Synonym: cinturón
- corset
- cummerbund
- (medicine) bandage
- (military) sash
- (geography) strip, belt
- lane (of highway)
- (broadcasting) channel
- (heraldry) fess
Derived terms
- fajita (diminutive)
Related terms
Etymology 2
Verb
faja
- inflection of fajar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
References
- ^ “faja”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
- ^ “haza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
Further reading
- “faja”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
Ternate
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈfa.d͡ʒa]
Verb
faja
- (stative) to be dirty
Conjugation
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| inclusive | exclusive | |||
| 1st person | tofaja | fofaja | mifaja | |
| 2nd person | nofaja | nifaja | ||
| 3rd person |
masculine | ofaja | ifaja yofaja (archaic) | |
| feminine | mofaja | |||
| neuter | ifaja | |||
References
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh