aji

Borrowed from Spanish ají.

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈhi/

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.

From Japanese 鯵 (aji).

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.

From Japanese 味 (aji, “flavour”).

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

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

• bad aji
• good aji

• JIA, Jai, Jia

• aj

• IPA^(key): /ˈajɪ/

aji

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

• (standard Czech) i

• aji in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu

• IPA^(key): /ɑði/

aji

1. rat

• 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.

From French agir (“act”).

aji

1. act

aji

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

• ají (Barlavento)

From Portuguese agir.

aji

1. (Sotavento) act

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

Borrowed from Japanese 箸 (hashi).

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

aji

1. chopsticks

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

From Marathi आजी (ājī).

• IPA^(key): /adʒi/

aji

1. grandmother

   Synonym: granmer

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

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈajiː/

aji

1. drowse, doze
2. daze

• adjágas

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