loja

See also: Loja, löja, lōja, and łoją

Portuguese
interior de uma loja

Alternative forms
  • lógea (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan llotja, from French loge, from Frankish *laubijā (“arbour, protective roof, shelter made of foliage”).[1][2][3]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈlɔ.ʒɐ/

  • Hyphenation: lo‧ja

Noun

loja f (plural lojas)

  1. shop, store
    Synonym: bazar
  2. basement, cellar
  3. (Freemasonry) lodge (local chapter of freemasons)

Derived terms

Descendants
  • → Hunsrik: Loja
  • → Makalero: loja (“shop”)
  • → Tetum: loja

References
  1. 'A formação e a etimologia de alojamento' in Ciberdúvidas da Língua Portuguesa.
  2. “loja” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
  3. “loja” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Further reading

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

loja (Cyrillic spelling лоја)

  1. genitive singular of loj

Swedish

Adjective

loja

  1. inflection of loj:
    1. definite singular
    2. plural

Anagrams

Tetum

Etymology

From Portuguese loja.

Noun

loja

  1. shop
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