Fijian

See also fijian

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• enPR: fē-jē'ən, IPA: /fiːˈdʒiːən/, SAMPA: /fi:"dZi:@n/
• Rhymes: -iːən

Noun

Fijian (plural Fijians)

1. a person from Fiji or of Fijian descent.

Translations

a person from Fiji or of Fijian descent

Armenian: ֆիջիացի (hy) (fiǰiacʿi) Norwegian: Bokmål: fijianer (nb) m. Nynorsk: fijian (nn) m., fijianar (nn) m.

Russian: фиджиец (ru) m., фиджийка (ru) f. Spanish: fiyiano (es) m.

Adjective

Fijian (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to Fiji, or its people or language.
   • 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, 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.

Translations

of, or relating to, Fiji, its people, or its language

Armenian: ֆիջիական (hy) (fiǰiakan) Norwegian: Bokmål: fijiansk (nb) Nynorsk: fijiansk (nn)

Russian: фиджийский (ru) Spanish: fiyiano (es) m.

Proper noun

Fijian

1. an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken on Fiji. It has 650,000 speakers, including second language users.

Translations

language

Armenian: ֆիջի (hy) (fiǰi), ֆիջիերեն (hy) (fiǰieren) Fijian: na vosa vaka-Viti (fj) Norwegian: Bokmål: fijiansk (nb) m. Nynorsk: fijiansk (nn) m.

External links

• ISO 639-1 code fj, ISO 639-3 code fij (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Fijian, fij