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Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
Noun
jaji
- nominative dual of jajo
- accusative dual of jajo
Swahili
Etymology
Borrowed from English judge.
Pronunciation
Noun
jaji (ma class, plural majaji)
- judge (public judicial official)
- Synonyms: hakimu, kadhi
Derived terms
References
- ^ Bolton, Caitlyn (2016) “Making Africa Legible: Kiswahili Arabic and Orthographiic Romanization in Colonial Zanzibar”, in American Journal of Islam and Society, 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
Pronunciation
Noun
jaji (possessed jajiyü)
- fishnet (net for fishing)
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “jaji”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 289
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “anətə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021