kaja

kaja

1. Romanization of ᬓᬚ.

From Spanish caja.

kaja

1. case, box

Etymology uncertain. Probably a deverbal from kajama (“to echo”), from Proto-Finnic *kajadak. Cognate with Veps kajata (“to echo”, verb) and Northern Sami gádja (“echo”, noun). Possibly from kaikuma, compare Finnish kaikua and kaiku, or vice versa (i.e. kaikuma derived from kaja or kajama).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑjɑ/, [ˈkɑ̈jɑ̈]
• Rhymes: -ɑjɑ
• Hyphenation: ka‧ja

kaja (genitive kaja, partitive kaja)

1. echo
   • 1967, Enn Vetemaa, “Pillimees”, in Loomingu Raamatukogu:

     Mees köhis. Kaja veeres läbi poolpimeda kiriku, tõusis võlvide alla, kustus.

     A man coughed. The echo breezed through the dark church, rose under the arches and died.

• järelkaja
• päevakaja
• vastukaja

• kajama

• kaikuma

• kaja in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “kaja”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

Back-formation from kajál.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɒjɒ]
• Hyphenation: ka‧ja
• Rhymes: -jɒ

kaja (plural kaják)

1. (informal) grub, chow

   See synonyms at Thesaurus:étel.

• kaja 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

• IPA^(key): /kaja/

kaja (inalienably possessed)

1. mother

   tenmej kaja

   Tenmey's mother

   ma-kaja ʈʰi innen.

   My mother is a non-Jarawa (a foreigner).

• Kumar, Pramod (2012) Descriptive and Typological Study of Jarawa (PhD). Jawaharlal Nehru University. Page 98, 110, passim.

From Proto-Turkic *k(i)aya.

kaja

1. rock, cliff

• N. A. Baskakov, S.M. Šapšala, editor (1973), “kaja”, in Karaimsko-Russko-Polʹskij Slovarʹ [Karaim-Russian-Polish Dictionary], Moscow: Moskva, →ISBN

kaja

1. oil palm

• LePage, Sarah Gloria (2020) "The phonology of Mbati"‎, University of North Dakota

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ja/

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• Rhymes: -aja
• Syllabification: ka‧ja
• Homophone: Kaja

kaja

1. third-person singular present of kajać

• IPA^(key): [kàɪːa]

kaja f (definite kajan)

1. (anatomy) The left hand.

Borrowed from Low German cauwe, from Proto-West Germanic *kahu, from Proto-Germanic *kawō (“jackdaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewH-. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk kaie.

kaja c

1. a jackdaw (bird)

• (dialectal) alika

• jaka