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Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Latin fāgea, feminine form of fāgeus (“beechen”).
Pronunciation
Noun
faja f (plural fages)
- beechnut
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Further reading
Hungarian
Etymology
faj (“species”) + -a (possessive suffix)
Pronunciation
Noun
faja
- third-person singular single-possession possessive of faj
Declension
Polish
Etymology
Back-formation from fajka.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfa.ja/
- Rhymes: -aja
- Syllabification: fa‧ja
Noun
faja f
- Augmentative of fajka
- Synonym: fajczysko
- (colloquial, derogatory) dweeb, hacker, klutz, nebbish
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:niezdara
Declension
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Further reading
- faja in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- faja in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfaxa/
- Rhymes: -axa
- Syllabification: fa‧ja
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Aragonese faxa, from Latin fascia, whence also the now rare inherited doublet haza (“portion of land for sowing”).
Noun
faja f (plural fajas)
- strip, band, sash
- belt
- corset
- cummerbund
- (medicine) bandage
- (military) sash
- (geography) strip, belt
- lane (of highway)
- (broadcasting) channel
- (heraldry) fess
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Etymology 2
Verb
faja
- inflection of fajar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
References
Further reading
Ternate
Pronunciation
Verb
faja
- (stative) to be dirty
Conjugation
References
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh