aji

Etymology 1 edit

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Ají_(sauce)

Wikipedia

Borrowed from Spanish ají.

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈhi/

Noun edit

aji (countable and uncountable, plural ajis or ajies)

1. (uncountable) A spicy Peruvian sauce, often containing tomatoes, cilantro, hot peppers, and onions.
   • 1847, Johann Jakob von Tschudi, Travels in Peru:

     In Peru the consumption of aji is greater than that of salt […]

2. (countable, cooking) A chili pepper, in the context of South American cuisine.
   • 1997, Antonio Montaña, Gloria Mercedes Duque, The Taste of Colombia, page 47:

     Add the onion, the garlic, the red pepper, the ajies, the pepper, cumin and salt.

Etymology 2 edit

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Japanese horse mackerel

Wikipedia

From Japanese 鯵 (aji).

Noun edit

aji (uncountable)

1. A horse mackerel, especially the Japanese horse mackerel, Trachurus japonicus
   • 2010, Dave Lowry, The Connoisseur's Guide to Sushi, ReadHowYouWant.com, →ISBN, page 77:

     Although aji are found in temperate waters around the world, if you have the fish in a sushi-ya here, it almost certainly was caught and frozen in Japan.

Etymology 3 edit

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Aji (Go)

Wikipedia

From Japanese 味 (aji, “flavour”).

Pronunciation edit

• enPR: ăʹ-jē, äʹ-jē, IPA^(key): /ˈæ.d͡ʒiː/, /ˈɑː.d͡ʒiː/

Noun edit

aji (uncountable)

1. (go) The ‘flavour’ of a position, i.e. the extent to which it has lingering possibilities such as bad aji which may not be exploitable when they first arise yet still influence further play; good aji generally means there are few weaknesses.
2. (go) Bad aji.

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Usage notes edit

The sense of “lingering possibilities” is more basic but probably less common.

Derived terms edit

• bad aji
• good aji

Anagrams edit

• JIA, Jai, Jia

Romanization edit

aji

1. Romanization of ᬳᬚᬶ

Alternative forms edit

• aj

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): [ˈajɪ]

Conjunction edit

aji

1. (dialect, Moravia) and (also), and even
2. (dialect, Moravia) even (implying an extreme example, used at the beginning of sentences)

Synonyms edit

• (standard Czech) i

Further reading edit

• aji in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): /ɑði/

Noun edit

aji

1. rat

References edit

• Tyron, D.T., Hackman, B. (1983) Solomon Islands languages: An internal classification. Cited in: "Dehu" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
• Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "ⁿDe’u" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Etymology edit

From French agir (“act”).

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): /a.ʒi/

Verb edit

aji

1. act

References edit

• [1]

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

aji

Wikipedia ^id

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): /ˈad͡ʒi/
• Rhymes: -d͡ʒi
• Hyphenation: a‧ji

Etymology 1 edit

Inherited from Malay aji, from Javanese ꦲꦗꦶ (aji), from Old Javanese aji.

Adjective edit

aji

1. magical

Noun edit

aji (plural aji-aji, first-person possessive ajiku, second-person possessive ajimu, third-person possessive ajinya)

1. incantation.
2. secret formula, charm.

Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

Inherited from Malay aji, from Javanese ꦲꦗꦶ (aji), from Old Javanese aji, haji.

Noun edit

aji (plural aji-aji, first-person possessive ajiku, second-person possessive ajimu, third-person possessive ajinya)

1. king

   Synonyms: baginda, raja

Further reading edit

• “aji” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Romanization edit

aji

1. Rōmaji transcription of あじ
2. Rōmaji transcription of アジ

Romanization edit

aji

1. Romanization of ꦲꦗꦶ

Alternative forms edit

• ají (Barlavento)

Etymology edit

From Portuguese agir.

Verb edit

aji

1. (Sotavento) act

References edit

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN
• Veiga, Manuel (2012) Dicionário Caboverdiano-Português, Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Japanese 箸 (hashi).

Pronunciation edit

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [ɑzʲi]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /ɰætʲij/
• Bender phonemes: {hajiy}

Noun edit

aji

1. chopsticks

References edit

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Etymology edit

From Marathi आजी (ājī).

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): /adʒi/

Noun edit

aji

1. grandmother

   Synonym: granmer

Etymology edit

Inherited from Assamese আজি (azi).

Adverb edit

aji

1. today

Related terms edit

• kali

Etymology edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation edit

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈajiː/

Noun edit

aji

1. drowse, doze
2. daze

Inflection edit

Derived terms edit

• adjágas

Further reading edit

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): /a.d͡ʒi/
• Rhymes: -d͡ʒi
• Hyphenation: a‧ji

Etymology 1 edit

Noun edit

aji

1. Alternative spelling of haji (“king”)

Etymology 2 edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun edit

aji

1. holy writ, scripture, sacred text
2. authoritative text
3. sacred formula

Derived terms edit

Noun edit

aji

1. value

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

• Javanese: ꦲꦗꦶ (aji, “amulet; value, worth”)
• → Balinese: ᬳᬚᬶ (aji, “price; knowledge”)

Further reading edit

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