See also: fája, fajá, fajã, and fają

Catalan edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

faja f (plural fages)

  1. beechnut

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Further reading edit

Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

faj (species) +‎ -a (possessive suffix)

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

faja

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

Declension edit

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 edit

Etymology edit

Back-formation from fajka.

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

faja f

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

Declension edit

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adjectives
adverb
nouns
verbs

Further reading edit

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

Spanish edit

Pronunciation edit

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

Etymology 1 edit

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

Noun edit

faja f (plural fajas)

  1. strip, band, sash
  2. belt
  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 edit

Verb edit

faja

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

References edit

  1. ^ faja”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
  2. ^ haza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Ternate edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

faja

  1. (stative) to be dirty

Conjugation edit

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 edit

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