See also: fája, fajá, fajã, and fają

Catalan

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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faja f (plural fages)

  1. beechnut
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Hungarian

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Etymology

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faj (species) +‎ -a (possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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faja

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

Declension

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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

Polish

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Etymology

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Back-formation from fajka.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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faja f

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

Declension

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adjectives
adverb
nouns
verbs

Further reading

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  • faja in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • faja in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfaxa/ [ˈfa.xa]
  • Rhymes: -axa
  • Syllabification: fa‧ja

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Aragonese faxa, from Latin fascia,[1] whence also the now rare inherited doublet haza (portion of land for sowing).[2]

Noun

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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
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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faja

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

References

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  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], 2024 December 10
  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], 2024 December 10

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Ternate

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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faja

  1. (stative) to be dirty

Conjugation

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Conjugation of faja
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st tofaja fofaja mifaja
2nd nofaja nifaja
3rd Masculine ofaja ifaja, yofaja
Feminine mofaja
Neuter ifaja
- archaic

References

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  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh