meja

meja

1. alternative spelling of méja

From Malay meja, from Portuguese mesa (“table”), from Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin mēnsa.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈmed͡ʒa/ [ˈme.d͡ʒa]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ed͡ʒa
• Syllabification: me‧ja

méja (plural meja-meja)

1. table

• “meja” 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.

meja

1. table

From Portuguese mesa (“table”), from Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin mēnsa.

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /ˈmed͡ʒə/ [ˈme.d͡ʒə]
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /ˈmed͡ʒa/ [ˈme.d͡ʒa]

• Audio (Malaysia, Johor-Selangor):

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• Rhymes: -ed͡ʒə, -d͡ʒə, -ə
• Rhymes: -a

meja (Jawi spelling ميجا, plural meja-meja)

1. table (item of furniture)

   Synonym: kekuda

• > Indonesian: meja (inherited)

• meja kerja
• meja tulis
• alas meja
• tenis meja
• meja hijau

• “meja” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *meďa, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos.

mèja f (Cyrillic spelling мѐја)

1. (Kajkavian, Chakavian) border, boundary

   Synonym: međa

From Proto-Slavic *meďa, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos.

• IPA^(key): /mɛ̀ːja/

méja f

1. border, boundary

   Synonym: grȃnica

• mejīti

• “meja”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “meja”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

• IPA^(key): /ˈmexa/ [ˈme.xa]
• Rhymes: -exa
• Syllabification: me‧ja

meja f (plural mejas)

1. female equivalent of mejo

Borrowed from English major.

• Audio (Kenya):

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meja class V (plural mameja class VI)

1. major (military rank)

meja (present mejar, preterite mejade, supine mejat, imperative meja)

1. (rare) to mow (cut down crops)

   Synonyms: slå, (mow the lawn) klippa

   meja vete ― mow wheat

• For mowing the lawn, klippa (“cut”) is used.
• Usually in the figurative sense of mow down in Swedish. See meja ner.

• meja ner (“mow down”)

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

From Malay meja, possibly through Ternate meja, from Portuguese mesa (“table”), from Latin mēnsa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.d̪ʒa/

meja

1. table

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics