meja

See also: méja, mẽja, and mejā

Balinese

Romanization

meja

  1. Romanization of ᬫᬾᬚ

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay meja, from Portuguese mesa (table), from Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin mēnsa.

meja

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɛd͡ʒa]
  • Hyphenation: mè‧ja
  • Rhymes: -d͡ʒa, -a

Noun

meja (plural meja-meja, first-person possessive mejaku, second-person possessive mejamu, third-person possessive mejanya)

  1. table (item of furniture)

Compounds

  • alas meja
  • meja bantuan
  • meja biliar
  • meja bola
  • meja dapur
  • meja dorong
  • meja gambar
  • meja gerak
  • meja goyang
  • meja hijau
  • meja judi
  • meja kartu
  • meja kerja
  • meja konsol
  • meja konstruksi
  • meja layanan
  • meja makan
  • meja modular
  • meja operasi
  • meja pengontrol
  • meja pingpong
  • meja pinjam
  • meja putaran keramik
  • meja rolet
  • meja sebelah
  • meja sirkulasi
  • meja tengah
  • meja tulis
  • meja uap
  • tenis meja

Further reading

Lindu

Noun

meja

  1. table

Malay

Etymology

From Portuguese mesa (table), from Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin mēnsa.

Pronunciation

  • (Johor-Selangor) IPA(key): /med͡ʒə/
  • (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /med͡ʒa/
  • Rhymes: -ed͡ʒə, -d͡ʒə,
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -a

Noun

meja (Jawi spelling ميجا, plural meja-meja, informal 1st possessive mejaku, 2nd possessive mejamu, 3rd possessive mejanya)

  1. table (item of furniture)

Descendants

  • Indonesian: meja

See also

  • meja kerja
  • meja tulis
  • alas meja
  • tenis meja
  • meja hijau

Further reading

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *meďa, from Proto-Indo-European *medʰyos.

Noun

meja f (Cyrillic spelling меја)

  1. (Kajkavian, Chakavian) border, boundary

Synonyms

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *meďa, from Proto-Indo-European *medʰyos.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɛ̀ːja/

Noun

méja f

  1. border, boundary
    Synonym: grȃnica

Inflection

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing. mêja
gen. sing. mêje
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
mêja mêji mêje
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
mêje mêj mêj
dative
(dajȃlnik)
mêji mêjama mêjam
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
mêjo mêji mêje
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
mêji mêjah mêjah
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
mêjo mêjama mêjami
Feminine, a-stem, mobile accent
nom. sing. mêja
gen. sing. mejé
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
mêja mejé mejé
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
mejé mejá mejá
dative
(dajȃlnik)
mêji mejáma mejàm
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
mejó mejé mejé
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
mêji mejàh mejàh
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
mejó mejáma mejámi

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmexa/ [ˈme.xa]
  • Rhymes: -exa
  • Syllabification: me‧ja

Noun

meja f (plural mejas)

  1. female equivalent of mejo

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from English major.

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

meja (ma class, plural mameja)

  1. major (military rank)

Swedish

Verb

meja (present mejar, preterite mejade, supine mejat, imperative meja)

  1. (rare) to mow (cut down crops)
    meja vetemow wheat
    Synonyms: slå, (mow the lawn) klippa

Usage notes

  • For mowing the lawn, klippa (cut) is used.
  • Usually in the figurative sense of mow down in Swedish. See meja ner.

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

West Makian

Etymology

From Malay meja, possibly through Ternate meja, from Portuguese mesa (table), from Latin mēnsa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈme.d̪ʒa/

Noun

meja

  1. table

References

  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours, Pacific linguistics
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