meja

meja

1. Romanization of ᬫᬾᬚ

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

meja

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛd͡ʒa]

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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

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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

• 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.

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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, Pacific linguistics