gaja

Transliteration of Sanskrit गज (gaja, “elephant; gaja”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑː.d͡ʒə/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːdʒə

gaja (plural gajas)

1. (Hinduism) The sacred name for the elephant
2. (chaturanga) A chaturanga piece ancestral to the medieval fil and modern bishop; literally, “elephant”
   1. (chess) A fairy piece based on the gaja as used in chaturanga

   Synonyms: elephant, hastin

• ajag

Borrowed from Malay gajah, from Sanskrit गज (gaja, “elephant”).

gaja

1. elephant

From English gay, French gai, Italian gaio. Doublet of geja.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡaja]

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• Rhymes: -aja
• Hyphenation: ga‧ja

gaja (accusative singular gajan, plural gajaj, accusative plural gajajn)

1. gay, merry, glad

   Antonym: malgaja

• gajega (“jolly; jovial”)

• Ido: gaya

Borrowed from Malay gajah, from Sanskrit गज (gaja, “elephant”).

gaja

1. elephant

   Synonym: godingan

From Malay gajah, ultimately from Sanskrit गज (gaja).

gaja

1. elephant

Borrowed from Sanskrit गज (gaja, “elephant”).

gaja

1. elephant

   Synonyms: aliman, asti, dipak, dwipa, dwipak, dwipāṅga, dwipendra, dwirada, dwiradarāja, dwirĕge, gaja, gajah, haliman, hasti, ibha, kuñjara, liman, mantĕṅga, mātaṅga, matĕṅga, nāga, pataṅgi, sāmaja, tuṅgaṅan, wāhana, wāraṇa

• gajah

• > Javanese: ꦒꦗꦃ (gajah) (inherited)
• → Balinese: ᬕᬚᬄ (gajah)

• "gaja" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Inherited from Sanskrit गज (gaja). Cognate with Prakrit 𑀕𑀚 (gaja), 𑀕𑀬 (gaya).

gaja m

1. elephant

   Synonyms: karin, hatthin, nāga, mātaṅga

• Khmer: គជ (kĕəʼcĕəʼ)

• Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “gaja”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead, page 240
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “gaja”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 211

gaja f (plural gajas)

1. female equivalent of gajo
2. (informal, sometimes derogatory, chiefly Portugal) chick, bird, broad, bitch (a woman)
   • 2015, dB + PZ (lyrics and music), “Tu és a minha gaja”:

     Tu és a minha gaja
     És a minha gaja
     Sem nenhuma sombra de dúvida que haja

     You're my chick
     You're my chick
     Without any shadow of a doubt there is

• gajedo

gaja

1. to fight

gajanŋaana (warrior)

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