foja

• oja

Inherited from Old Spanish foja, from Late Latin folia, from the nominative plural of Latin folium, probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yom (“leaf”), from *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”). See also folio, borrowed from the Latin. Cognate with English foil and French feuille (“sheet, leaf”).

foja f (Hebrew spelling פ׳וז׳ה, plural fojas)^[1]

1. leaf (phyllon)
   • 1994, Isak Papo, Cuentos Sobre los Sefardies de Sarajevo, Logos, →ISBN, page 150:

     Las verduras si lavan foja pur foja i si inshaguan unas kuantas vezes.

     The vegetation is washed leaf by leaf and it rinses itself repeatedly.

2. page (leaf)

   Synonym: pajina

   • 1982, Enrique Saporta y Beja, En torno de la torre blanca‎^[1], Editions Vidas Largas, page 71:

     El padre de famiya lo dechava syempre en ereda a su primer fijo i en la primera foja se meldava los nombres de las personas ke lo avian resivido en ereda.

     The family's father was forever leaving it inherited to his first son and in the first page the names of the people who had received this inheritance were being read.

   • 2007, Moshe 'Ha-Elion, Las angustias del enferno: las pasadias de un djidio de Saloniki en los kampos de eksterminasion almanes Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Melk i Ebensee‎^[2], Sentro Moshe David Gaon de Kultura Djudeo-Espanyola, Universidad Ben-Gurion del Negev, →ISBN, page 154:

     Sin me atadrar por un punto empesi a tornar las fojas de los livros.

     Without delaying myself at all I started to turn the books' pages.

From Late Latin folia, from the plural of Latin folium (“leaf”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhoʒa/

foja f (plural fojas)

1. leaf

• Ladino: oja
• Spanish: hoja

• IPA^(key): /ˈfoxa/ [ˈfo.xa]
• Rhymes: -oxa
• Syllabification: fo‧ja

foja f (plural fojas)

1. obsolete form of hoja; leaf, sheet
2. (Mexico, Peru) leaf, sheet (of an official document)

• “foja”, 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

From Latin folium.

foja f

1. leaf