vaj

vaj

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Sekele.

• Wiktionary's coverage of Sekele terms

• vadge, vag

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vaj (plural vajes)

1. (slang, rare) The vagina.
   • See Citations:vaj

• JAV, jav

• vahj — Arbëresh
• valë — Cham
• voj — Gheg

• Uncertain. Perhaps from the alternative, the interjection meaning 'woe', connecting the tears with oil. Another theory suggests the term vaj might have evolved from Old Albanian *vaīlë (compare the dialectal forms) and earlier *ewaila, becoming cognate with Ancient Greek *ἐλαίϝα (*elaíwa) and Old Armenian եւղ (ewł, “oil”) both, in turn, deriving from a Mediterranean substrate language.

• From Proto-Albanian *u̯ɔλa, from Vulgar Latin *oli̯u, from Latin oleum,^[1] from Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion).

vaj m (plural vajra, definite vaji, definite plural vajrat)

1. oil

• vajguri (“petroleum”)

Possibly from Proto-Albanian *uai, from Proto-Indo-European *wáy, *uai (“woe!, alas!”); similar words are found in several European languages. Cognate to Ancient Greek ὀά (oá, “woe!, alas!”) and Old Armenian վայ (vay, “cry of pain”), Latin vae, Icelandic vei, Dutch wee, English woe. Compare also Romanian vai, Serbo-Croatian авај (avaj), Italian guai. In view of a widespread secondary meaning 'to cry', one may also consider Proto-Albanian *vabja, connected with Old Church Slavonic вабимо (vabimo, “being lured”), Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐍀𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wōpjan, “call out”), Old English wēpan (“weep, cry”).

vaj

1. woe!, alas!

• vajtoj
• kukuvajkë

vaj

1. red morning glory (Ipomoea coccinea)

• Engel, Ralph, Allhiser de Engel, Mary, Mateo Alvarez, José (1987) Diccionario zoque de Francisco León (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 30)‎ (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 218

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• Rhymes: -ɒj

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *waje. Cognates include Northern Mansi во̄й (vōj) and Finnish voi.

vaj (countable and uncountable, plural vajak)

1. butter (a soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk))

   Régen mindig vajjal főztünk. ― In the old days, we always cooked with butter.

2. butter (any of various foodstuffs made from other foods or oils, similar in consistency to, eaten like or intended as a substitute for butter (preceded by the name of the food used to make it))

   mogyoróvaj ― peanut butter

Onomatopoeic, imitating an involuntary burst of sound.^[1]

vaj

1. (literary, obsolete) oh

   Synonyms: vajh, hej, haj, jaj

• (butter): vaj in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• ( or): vaj in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• ( I wonder): vaj in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• ( oh): vaj in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

vaj

1. or

Originally an older Stockholm pronunciation of varg (“wolf, defect product”), with loss of /r/ before /j/.

• IPA^(key): /vaj/
• Rhymes: -aj

vaj (indeclinable)

1. (colloquial) something wrong

• vajsing

• vaj in Svensk ordbok (SO)

• (Zinacantán) IPA^(key): /βäh/

vaj

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• kaxlan vaj

• “vah(3)” in Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

• IPA^(key): /va˥˧/

Borrowed from Middle Chinese 王 (MC hjwang|hjwangH, “king”) or Mandarin 王 (wáng, “id”).^[1]

vaj (classifier: tus)

1. king, ruler

From Proto-Hmong *waŋᴬ (“garden”), borrowed from Old Chinese 園 (OC *ɢʷan, “garden”). Cognate with Proto-Mien *hwunᴬ (“id”).^[2]

vaj (classifier: lub)

1. a garden, an enclosure for planting vegetables, fruit, etc.
2. a fence, arena, enclosed wall

   Tuaj, peb xov vaj ncig daim teb. ― Come, we'll put a fence around the field.

3. a park

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 398.