sovaja

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto sovaĝa, English savage, French sauvage, Italian selvaggio, Spanish salvaje.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /soˈvaʒa/, /soˈvad͡ʒa/
  • Hyphenation: so‧va‧ja

Adjective

sovaja

  1. (referring to living and growing persons, plants, trees, etc.) savage: wild
  2. (living in a state of nature) not domesticated, uncivilized
  3. ferocious, fierce
  4. (figuratively) unsociable

Derived terms
  • sovajeskar (“to become savage”)
  • sovajeso (“savagery, wildness; (fig.) fierceness”)
  • sovajigar (“to make savage”)
  • sovajo (“a savage”)
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