paja

paja

1. genitive singular of pada

From Proto-Finnic *paja. Cognates include Estonian paja, Ingrian paja, Karelian paja, Ludian paja, Livvi paja, Veps paja and Votic paja.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑjɑ/, [ˈpɑjɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑjɑ
• Syllabification^(key): pa‧ja

paja

1. smithy, forge
2. workshop
3. (slang) workplace

   Olin pajalla koko viikonlopun.

   I spent the whole weekend at work.

4. (slang) marijuana

• (workshop) työpaja
• (marijuana) pajari

• paia

From Latin palea, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”); compare Venetian paja.

paja

1. straw (dried stalks of cereal plants)

paja f

1. (derogatory) hand (especially a big one)

From Old Spanish, from Latin palea (“chaff”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”).

paja f (Latin spelling)

1. hay

• IPA^(key): [ˈpaɟa]

paja (Lontara spelling ᨄᨍ)

1. (anatomy) buttocks

From Old Spanish paxa, from Latin palea (“chaff”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaxa/ [ˈpa.xa]

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• Rhymes: -axa
• Syllabification: pa‧ja

paja f (plural pajas)

1. (countable) straw (dried stalk of a cereal plant)

   Synonyms: bagazo, barcia

2. (uncountable) straw (dried stalks considered collectively)

   Él tiene puesto un sombrero de paja.

   He is wearing a straw hat

   (literally, “a hat made of straw”)

3. drinking straw

   Synonyms: pajita, popote

4. (slang) wank, jerk off, handjob, masturbation

   Synonyms: pajilla, pajote

   Me hizo una paja muy rica en el coche mientras yo conducía.

   He/she gave me an awesome handjob in the car while I was driving.

5. (colloquial, Guatemala, El Salvador, Colombia) lie, falsehood

   Todos los políticos hablan paja.

   All politicians tell lies.

   • 2013, Devendra Banhart (lyrics and music), “Mi Negrita”, in Mala:

     Mi amor no te hablo paja / Aunque no es la verdad

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6. (Peru, slang) very good, great, excellent

   ¡Que canción paja tocaron en la radio!

   What a great song they played on the radio!

7. (vulgar, uncountable, Argentina, Chile) laziness, tiredness, fatigue

   ¿Tenemos que caminar treinta cuadras? ¡Qué paja!

   We have to walk thirty blocks? But I'm so tired!

• pajar
• pajero
• pajoso
• payaso

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

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paja (ma class, plural mapaja)

1. thigh

   paja la kuku ― chicken thigh

From Tavringer Romani pagra, paggra (“to break, to destroy”), from Romani phag- (“to break, to destroy”). Related to Sanskrit भनक्ति (bhanakti, “to break”).

paja (present pajar, preterite pajade, supine pajat, imperative paja)

1. (intransitive, colloquial) to stop working, to become broken

   Diskmaskinen pajade nyss.

   The dishwasher just broke.

2. (transitive, colloquial) to break, to cause to malfunction

   Jag har råkat paja min tv.

   I've accidentally broken my TV.

   Jag råkade paja vasen

   I accidentally broke the vase

• paj

• paja in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• Gerd Carling (2005), “paja”, in Romani i svenskan: Storstadsslang och standardspråk, Stockholm: Carlsson, →ISBN, page 96

From Latin palea. Compare Italian paglia.

paja f (plural paje)

1. straw

From Proto-Finnic *paja.

paja

1. smithy, forge
2. workshop, studio

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “ателье, кузница”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

From Proto-Finnic *paja.

• (Luuditsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑʝɑ/, [ˈpɑʝɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑʝɑ
• Hyphenation: pa‧ja

paja

1. smithy

• V. Hallap, E. Adler, S. Grünberg, M. Leppik (2012), “paja”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2 edition, Tallinn