reja

Borrowed from a Germanic language. Compare Estonian reha. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

rejā

1. rake

Borrowed from Dutch ra, from Middle Dutch ra, from Proto-Germanic *rahō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛ.ja/

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• Rhymes: -ɛja
• Syllabification: re‧ja

reja f (diminutive rejka)

1. (sailing) spreader, yard (crossways-mast on a ship)

• reja in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• reja in Polish dictionaries at PWN

reja

1. inflection of reger:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

From rediti (“to rear, grow (animals)”).

• IPA^(key): /rɛ̀ːja/

réja f

1. growing, rearing (of animals)
   • jajca iz hlevske reje

     barn eggs, cage-free eggs

• rejski
• rejec

• “reja”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

• IPA^(key): /ˈrexa/ [ˈre.xa]
• Rhymes: -exa
• Syllabification: re‧ja

From Italian regge (“church doors”), from Late Latin (porta) rēgia (literally “kingly door”).

reja f (plural rejas)

1. grate, grating, grille
2. (in the plural) bars (especially of a prison cell)

   tras las rejas ― behind bars

From Vulgar Latin *regla, from Latin rēgula (“bar, stick; rule, model”). Doublet of regla. Cognate with English rail.

reja f (plural rejas)

1. plowshare (or ploughshare) (soil-cutting bar of a plough)

• “reja”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014