Fijian
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See also: fijian
English[edit]
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Noun[edit]
Fijian (plural Fijians)
Translations[edit]
a person from Fiji or of Fijian descent
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Adjective[edit]
Fijian (not comparable)
- Pertaining to Fiji, or its language or people.
- 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter III, in Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, OCLC 948783829, book I (Miss Brooke), 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[edit]
Translations[edit]
Pertaining to Fiji, or its language or people
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Proper noun[edit]
Fijian
- an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken on Fiji. It has 650,000 speakers, including second language users.
Translations[edit]
language
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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 (behind paywall)
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