meja

meja

1. Romanization of ᬫᬾᬚ

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛd͡ʒa]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: mè‧ja
• Rhymes: -d͡ʒa, -a

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

1. table (item of furniture)

   Synonym: kenap

• “meja” 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.

meja

1. table

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

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

• Audio (Malaysia, Johor-Selangor):

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• Rhymes: -a

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

1. table (item of furniture)

   Synonym: kekuda

• Indonesian: meja

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

• “meja” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *meďa, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos.

mèja f (Cyrillic spelling мѐја)

1. (Kajkavian, Chakavian) border, boundary

   Synonym: međa

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

• IPA^(key): /mɛ̀ːja/

méja f

1. border, boundary

   Synonym: grȃnica

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

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

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem, long mixed 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

• mejīti

• “meja”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “meja”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

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

meja f (plural mejas)

1. female equivalent of mejo

Borrowed from English major.

• Audio (Kenya):

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meja (ma class, plural mameja)

1. major (military rank)

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

1. (rare) to mow (cut down crops)

   Synonyms: slå, (mow the lawn) klippa

   meja vete ― mow wheat

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

• meja ner (“mow down”)

• meja in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• meja in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• meja in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.d̪ʒa/

meja

1. table

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics