Fijian
See also: fijian
English
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edit- enPR: fē-jē'ən, fĭ-jē'ən, IPA(key): /fiːˈd͡ʒiːən/, /fɪˈd͡ʒiːən/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -iːən
Noun
editFijian (plural Fijians)
Translations
edita person from Fiji or of Fijian descent
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Adjective
editFijian (not comparable)
- Pertaining to Fiji, or its language or people.
- 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter III, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I, pages 37–38:
- [S]he wore her brown hair flatly braided and coiled behind so as to expose the outline of her head in a daring manner at a time when public feeling required the meagreness of nature to be dissimulated by tall barricades of frizzed curls and bows, never surpassed by any great race except the Feejeean.
Derived terms
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editPertaining to Fiji, or its language or people
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Proper noun
editFijian
- an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken on Fiji. It has 650,000 speakers, including second language users.
Translations
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Further reading
edit- Wiktionary's coverage of Fijian terms
- ISO 639-1 code fj, ISO 639-3 code fij (SIL)
- Ethnologue entry for Fijian, fij
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