See also: ja ji

Lower Sorbian

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Noun

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jaji

  1. nominative dual of jajo
  2. accusative dual of jajo

Swahili

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English judge.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (Kenya):(file)

Noun

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jaji (ma class, plural majaji)

  1. judge (public judicial official)
    Synonyms: hakimu, kadhi

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References

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  1. ^ Bolton, Caitlyn (2016) “Making Africa Legible: Kiswahili Arabic and Orthographiic Romanization in Colonial Zanzibar”, in American Journal of Islam and Society[1], volume 33, number 3, →DOI, page 71 of 61–78:
    The entirely new words were all drawn from English, recast into “Swahili” spelling and pronunciation: Equator became ikweta, number became namba, and judge became jaji. This last term is significant, given the already wide proliferation of the Arabic term for judge, qāḍī spelled locally as kadhi. However, this term was associated with Islamic, rather than European, jurisprudence.

Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV jaji
Brazilian standard faji
New Tribes jaji

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Noun

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jaji (possessed jajiyü)

  1. fishnet (net for fishing)

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jaji”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[2], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 223, 289, 389:[ha'hi] 'fishnet' [] hahi -ha:hi: -yü 'fishing net' [] ha'hi - fish net
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “anətə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021