reja

reja

1. romanization of ꦉꦗ

Borrowed from a Germanic language. Compare Estonian reha. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

rejā

1. rake

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• Rhymes: -ɛja
• Syllabification: re‧ja
• Homophone: Reja

Borrowed from Dutch ra.

reja f (diminutive rejka, related adjective rejowy)

1. (sailing) spreader, yard (horizontal athwartships spar attached to the mast of a sailboat in order to extend the shrouds away from the mast)

   Hypernym: belka

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

reja f

1. (Chełmno, Far Masovian) elongated pit for storing potatoes for winter

• reja in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• reja in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• reja in PWN's encyclopedia
• Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “reja”, in “O języku ludowym w powiecie przasnyskim”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 120
• Kazimierz Nitsch (1907) “reja”, in “Dyalekty polskie Prus zachodnich”, in Materyały i Prace Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie (in Polish), volume 3, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 391

reja

1. inflection of reger:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

From rediti (“to rear, grow (animals)”).

• IPA^(key): /rɛ̀ːja/

réja f

1. growing, rearing (of animals)

   jajca iz hlevske reje

   barn eggs, cage-free eggs

• rejski
• rejec

• “reja”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈrexa/ [ˈre.xa]
• Rhymes: -exa
• Syllabification: re‧ja

Borrowed from Italian regge (“church doors”), from Late Latin (porta) rēgia (literally “kingly door”).

reja f (plural rejas)

1. grate, grating, grille
2. (in the plural) bars (especially of a prison cell)

   tras las rejas ― behind bars

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *regla, from Latin rēgula (“bar, stick; rule, model”). Doublet of regla. Cognate with English rail.

reja f (plural rejas)

1. plowshare (or ploughshare) (soil-cutting bar of a plough)

• “reja”, 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