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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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  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈfa.ʒə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencia) [ˈfa.d͡ʒa]

Noun

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faja f (plural fages)

  1. beechnut
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  • faig

Further reading

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  • “faja”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

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

[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-attributivepossessive – singular fajáé —
non-attributivepossessive – plural fajáéi —

Indonesian

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Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:fajaWikipedia id

Etymology

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Borrowed from English fudge.

Pronunciation

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  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈfad͡ʒa/ [ˈfa.d͡ʒa]
  • Rhymes: -ad͡ʒa
  • Syllabification: fa‧ja

Noun

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faja (plural faja-faja)

  1. (cooking) fudge

Further reading

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  • “faja”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

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

[edit] Declension of faja
singular plural
nominative faja faje
genitive fai faj
dative fai fajom
accusative faję faje
instrumental fają fajami
locative fai fajach
vocative fajo faje
[edit] adjectives
  • fajczany
  • fajczarski
  • fajkowaty
  • fajkowy
adverb
  • fajkowato
nouns
  • fajczarnia
  • fajczarz
  • fajczyna
  • fajczysko
  • fajeczka
  • fajka
  • fajka pokoju
  • fajka wodna
  • fajkarnia
  • fajkarz
verbs
  • fajczyć impf
  • fajkować impf
  • sfajczyć pf

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 faixa, 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
Derived terms
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  • fajita (diminutive)
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  • fajar

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 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
  2. ^ “haza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Further reading

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  • “faja”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Ternate

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈfa.d͡ʒa]

Verb

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faja

  1. (stative) to be dirty

Conjugation

[edit] Conjugation of faja
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person tofaja fofaja mifaja
2nd person nofaja nifaja
3rdperson masculine ofaja ifajayofaja (archaic)
feminine mofaja
neuter ifaja

References

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

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