faja

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See also: fája, fajá, fajã, and fają

Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Latin fāgea, feminine form of fāgeus (beechen).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

faja f (plural fages)

  1. beechnut

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Hungarian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

faj (species) +‎ -a (possessive suffix)

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈfɒjɒ]
  • Hyphenation: fa‧ja

Noun[edit]

faja

  1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of faj

Declension[edit]

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
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

Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Back-formation from fajka.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈfa.ja/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -aja
  • Syllabification: fa‧ja

Noun[edit]

faja f

  1. Augmentative of fajka
    Synonym: fajczysko
  2. (colloquial, derogatory) dweeb, hacker, klutz, nebbish
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:niezdara

Declension[edit]

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adjectives
adverb
nouns
verbs

Further reading[edit]

  • faja in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • faja in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈfaxa/ [ˈfa.xa]
  • Rhymes: -axa
  • Syllabification: fa‧ja

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from Aragonese faxa, from Latin fascia,[1] whence also the now rare inherited doublet haza (portion of land for sowing).[2]

Noun[edit]

faja f (plural fajas)

  1. strip, band, sash
  2. belt
  3. corset
  4. cummerbund
  5. (medicine) bandage
  6. (military) sash
  7. (geography) strip, belt
  8. lane (of highway)
  9. (broadcasting) channel
  10. (heraldry) fess
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Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

faja

  1. inflection of fajar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

References[edit]

  1. ^ faja”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
  2. ^ haza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Further reading[edit]

Ternate[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

faja

  1. (stative) to be dirty

Conjugation[edit]

Conjugation of faja
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st tofaja fofaja mifaja
2nd nofaja nifaja
3rd Masculine ofaja ifaja, yofaja
Feminine mofaja
Neuter ifaja
- archaic

References[edit]

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh