bija

bija

1. (Hinduism, Buddhism) The origin or cause of things.

• baji

bija

1. inflection of bijë:
   1. definite nominative singular
   2. indefinite nominative/accusative plural

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bija

1. bee

• Burling, R. (2003) The Language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo) Vol. II: The Lexicon‎^[1], Bangladesh: University of Michigan, page 127

From Sanskrit बीज (bīja, “seed”). Doublet of biji and bijih.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbi.d͡ʒa]
• Hyphenation: bi‧ja

bija (plural bija-bija)

1. (archaic) seed

   Synonym: biji

2. (Hinduism) a part of offering

• “bija” 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.

bija

1. (he, she, it) was; third-person singular past indicative of būt
2. (they) were; third-person plural past indicative of būt

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiː.ja/

bija

1. first-person singular pronominal form of b’: with me

bija

1. inflection of bidjat:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative
   3. imperative connegative

Borrowed from Taíno *biha.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈbixa/ [ˈbi.xa]
• Rhymes: -ixa
• Syllabification: bi‧ja

bija f (plural bijas)

1. (Dominican Republic, Cuba) annatto

   Synonyms: achiote, urucú

• → Translingual: Bixa

• “bija”, 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