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Transliteration of Sanskrit गज (gaja, “elephant; gaja”).

gaja (plural gajas)

  1. (Hinduism) The sacred name for the elephant
  2. (chaturanga) A chaturanga piece ancestral to the medieval fil and modern bishop; literally, “elephant”
    1. (chess) A fairy piece based on the gaja as used in chaturanga
    Synonyms: elephant, hastin
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From English gay, French gai, Italian gaio. Doublet of geja.

  • IPA(key): [ˈɡaja]
  • Rhymes: -aja
  • Hyphenation: ga‧ja

gaja (accusative singular gajan, plural gajaj, accusative plural gajajn)

  1. gay, merry, glad
    Antonym: malgaja

From Malay gajah, ultimately from Sanskrit गज (gaja).

gaja

  1. elephant

Borrowed from Sanskrit गज (gaja, “elephant”).

gaja

  1. elephant
    Synonyms: aliman, asti, dipak, dwipa, dwipak, dwipāṅga, dwipendra, dwirada, dwiradarāja, dwirĕge, gaja, gajah, haliman, hasti, ibha, kuñjara, liman, mantĕṅga, mātaṅga, matĕṅga, nāga, pataṅgi, sāmaja, tuṅgaṅan, wāhana, wāraṇa
  • "gaja" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

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Inherited from Sanskrit गज (gaja). Cognate with Prakrit 𑀕𑀚 (gaja), 𑀕𑀬 (gaya).

gaja m

  1. elephant
    Synonyms: karin, hatthin, nāga, mātaṅga
  • Khmer: គជ (kĕəʼcĕəʼ)
  • Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “gaja”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead, page 240
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “gaja”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 211

gaja f (plural gajas)

  1. female equivalent of gajo
  2. (informal, sometimes derogatory, chiefly Portugal) girl

    • 2015, dB + PZ (lyrics and music), “Tu és a minha gaja”:

      Tu és a minha gaja
      És a minha gaja
      Sem nenhuma sombra de dúvida que haja

      You're my girl
      You're my girl
      Without any shadow of a doubt there is

gaja

  1. to fight

gajanŋaana (warrior)

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