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Webster 1913 Edition
Fijian
Fi′ji-an
,Adj.
Of or pertaining to the Fiji islands or their inhabitants.
– Noun.
A native of the Fiji islands.
[Written also
Feejeean
, Feejee
.] Definition 2024
Fijian
Fijian
See also: fijian
English
Alternative forms
(obsolete spellings): Feejeean, Fejeean
Noun
Fijian (plural Fijians)
- A person from Fiji or of Fijian descent.
Translations
a person from Fiji or of Fijian descent
Adjective
Fijian (not comparable)
- Pertaining to Fiji, or its people or language.
- 1871–72, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Chapter 3
- she 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.
- 1871–72, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Chapter 3
Translations
of, or relating to, Fiji, its people, or its language
Derived terms
Proper noun
Fijian
- an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken on Fiji. It has 650,000 speakers, including second language users.
Translations
language
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External links
- ISO 639-1 code fj, ISO 639-3 code fij
- Ethnologue entry for Fijian, fj
fijian
fijian
See also: Fijian
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
Noun
fijian m (definite singular fijianen, indefinite plural fijianar, definite plural fijianane)
- Fijian (person)
Related terms
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌfi.d͡ʒiˈan/
Noun
fijian m (plural fijieni, feminine equivalent fijiană)
Adjective
fijian m, n (feminine singular fijiană, masculine plural fijieni, feminine and neuter plural fijiene)
Declension
declension of fijian
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | fijian | fijiană | fijieni | fijiene | ||
definite | fijianul | fijiana | fijienii | fijienele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | fijian | fijiene | fijieni | fijiene | ||
definite | fijianului | fijienei | fijienilor | fijienelor |