goja

goja

1. definite nominative singular of gojë

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɡɔ.ʒə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈɡɔ.d͡ʒa]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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Cognate with Occitan goja (“waitress”) (originally "young woman, maid"), perhaps from Hebrew גויה (goyá, “gentile woman”).

goja f (plural goges) (folklore)

1. fairy
2. water nymph

   Synonyms: aloja, dona d'aigua, encantada, patida

   Hypernym: nimfa

• gojar

goja

1. inflection of gojar (“to bewitch”):
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

goja

1. inflection of gojar (“to enjoy; to benefit from”):
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “goja”, 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

• goia

goja f (plural gojas)

1. (religion, obsolete) Christian woman

• Audio (Gascony):

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goja f (plural gojas)

1. waitress

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 298.

From papegoja.

goja c

1. (colloquial) a parrot (bird)

   Synonym: papegoja

2. (colloquial) gobbledygook, nonsense

   Han snackar bara en massa goja

   He just speaks a bunch of gobbledygook

   Vad snackar du för goja?

   What gobbledygook are you spewing?

   Vilken goja...

   What nonsense...

• goja in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• goja in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• goja in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)