See also: Maj, máj, māj, måj, Maj., maj., and máj.

EnglishEdit

NounEdit

maj (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of maj.

AnagramsEdit

AlbanianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From dialectal manj, from Proto-Albanian *mazdnja, deverbative of Proto-Indo-European *mh₂sd- (compare English mast (nuts (pig feed)), Greek μαστός (mastós, breast)), from *meh₂d-;[1] alternatively from *mh₂dnyeti,[2] directly from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (compare Latin madere (to be wet), Sanskrit मेदन (médana, fattening)).

VerbEdit

maj (first-person singular past tense majta, participle majtur)

  1. to maintain oneself
  2. to hold

E majta në dorë("I held it in my hand")

Etymology 2Edit

From Proto-Albanian *mai̯i̯ʉh, borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin Māius.[3]

NounEdit

maj m (definite singular maji)

  1. May

Etymology 3Edit

From Latin malleus.

  1. hammer (Frang Bardhi).

Derived termsEdit

  1. majëtuer: hammerer (malleator, Frang Bardhi).
  2. majth: little hammer (malleolus, Frang Bardhi)

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir (1998), “maj ~ mâj”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 241
  2. ^ J.P. Mallory & D.Q. Adams, eds., Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, s.v. "wet" (London: Fitzroy-Dearborn, 1997), 639.
  3. ^ Schumacher, Stefan; Matzinger, Joachim (2013) Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Albanische Forschungen; 33) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN

DanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin māius.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

maj c

  1. May (the fifth month of the Gregorian calendar)

See alsoEdit

FrenchEdit

NounEdit

maj m (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of maj.

PolishEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /maj/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -aj
  • Syllabification: maj

NounEdit

maj m inan

  1. May (month)

DeclensionEdit

Derived termsEdit

adjective

See alsoEdit

Further readingEdit

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

Serbo-CroatianEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mȁj m (Cyrillic spelling ма̏ј)

  1. May
    Synonym: (Croatia) svȋbanj

DeclensionEdit

Derived termsEdit

See alsoEdit

SlovakEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

maj

  1. second-person singular imperative of mať

SloveneEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

máj m inan

  1. May

InflectionEdit

Masculine inan., soft o-stem
nom. sing. máj
gen. sing. mája
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
máj mája máji
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
mája májev májev
dative
(dajȃlnik)
máju májema májem
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
máj mája máje
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
máju májih májih
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
májem májema máji

Coordinate termsEdit

SwedishEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

maj c

  1. May (month)
    Synonyms: blomstermånad, lövmånad

Derived termsEdit

See alsoEdit

AnagramsEdit

VilamovianEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

maj m

  1. May

Vlax RomaniEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Romanian mai.[1]

ParticleEdit

maj

  1. -er, more; forms comparative adjectives and adverbs.[1][2][3][4][5]
  2. follows the definite article to form the superlative[2][4][5]

ReferencesEdit

  1. 1.0 1.1 Boretzky, Norbert; Igla, Birgit (1994), “maj”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 173a
  2. 2.0 2.1 Ronald Lee (2005), “Lesson eleven”, in Learn Romani: Das-dúma Rromanes, reprint edition, Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, published 2017, →ISBN, pages 166-168
  3. ^ Marcel Courthiade (2009), “maj²³”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (in Hungarian; English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 232a
  4. 4.0 4.1 Marcel Courthiade (2009), “Morfológiai függelék [Morphological survey]”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (in Hungarian; English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 479
  5. 5.0 5.1 Yūsuke Sumi (2018) ニューエクスプレスプラス ロマ(ジプシー)語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 96-97

Welsh RomaniEdit

PronounEdit

maj (emphatic maja)

  1. I
    Synonym: me

ReferencesEdit

  • maj” in Welsh Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.

ZayEdit

EtymologyEdit

Cognate to Silt'e መዪ (mayi).

NounEdit

maj

  1. water

ReferencesEdit

  • Initial SLLE Survey of the Zway Area by Klaus Wedekind and Charlotte Wedekind, SIL International 2002 (sil.org)