faja

See also: fája, fajá, fajã, and fają

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

faja f (plural fages)

  1. beechnut

Further reading

Hungarian

Etymology

faj (species) +‎ -a (possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

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

Noun

faja

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

Declension

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

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from English fudge.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈfad͡ʒa/ [ˈfa.d͡ʒa]
  • Rhymes: -ad͡ʒa
  • Syllabification: fa‧ja

Noun

faja (plural faja-faja)

  1. (cooking) fudge

Further reading

Polish

Etymology

Back-formation from fajka.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

faja f

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

Declension

adjectives
  • fajczany
  • fajczarski
  • fajkowaty
  • fajkowy
adverb
  • fajkowato
nouns
verbs

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)

  1. strip, band, sash
    Synonyms: cinta, banda
  2. belt
    Synonym: cinturón
  3. corset
  4. cummerbund
  5. (medicine) bandage
  6. (military) sash
  7. (geography) strip, belt
  8. lane (of highway)
  9. (broadcasting) channel
  10. (heraldry) fess
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

faja

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

References

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ 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

Ternate

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfa.d͡ʒa]

Verb

faja

  1. (stative) to be dirty

Conjugation

Conjugation of faja
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