Fijian
See also: fijian
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- enPR: fē-jē'ən, fĭ-jē'ən, IPA(key): /fiːˈd͡ʒiːən/, /fɪˈd͡ʒiːən/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -iːən
Noun edit
Fijian (plural Fijians)
Translations edit
a person from Fiji or of Fijian descent
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Adjective edit
Fijian (not comparable)
- Pertaining to Fiji, or its language or people.
- 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter III, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I, pages 37–38:
- [S]he wore her brown hair flatly braided and coiled behind so as to expose the outline of her head in a daring manner at a time when public feeling required the meagreness of nature to be dissimulated by tall barricades of frizzed curls and bows, never surpassed by any great race except the Feejeean.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
Pertaining to Fiji, or its language or people
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Proper noun edit
Fijian
- an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken on Fiji. It has 650,000 speakers, including second language users.
Translations edit
language
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Further reading edit
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Fijian terms
- ISO 639-1 code fj, ISO 639-3 code fij (SIL)
- Ethnologue entry for Fijian, fij