Fijian

See also: fijian

English

Alternative forms

• Feejeean (obsolete spelling)
• Fejeean (obsolete spelling)

Etymology

Fiji +‎ -an

Pronunciation

• enPR: fē-jē'ən, fĭ-jē'ən, IPA^(key): /fiːˈd͡ʒiːən/, /fɪˈd͡ʒiːən/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -iːən

Noun

Fijian (plural Fijians)

1. A person from Fiji or of Fijian descent.

Translations

a person from Fiji or of Fijian descent

• Afrikaans: Fidjiaan
• Armenian: ֆիջիացի (fiǰiacʻi)
• Catalan: fijià m
• Czech: Fidžijec (cs) m
• Danish: fijianer c
• Dutch: Fijiër (nl) m, Fijische (nl) f
• Finnish: fidžiläinen (fi)
• French: Fidjien (fr) m, Fidjienne (fr) f
• German: Fidschianer (de) m, Fidschianerin (de) f
• Hawaiian: Pīkī
• Irish: Fidsíoch m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fijianer m

  Nynorsk: fijian m, fijianar m

• Polish: Fidżyjczyk (pl) m
• Portuguese: fijiano (pt) m
• Romanian: fijian m, fijiană f
• Russian: фиджиец (ru) m (fidžijec), фиджийка (ru) f (fidžijka)
• Spanish: fiyiano (es) m

Adjective

Fijian (not comparable)

1. 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

• Fijianness

Translations

Pertaining to Fiji, or its language or people

• Afrikaans: Fidjiaans (af)
• Armenian: ֆիջիական (fiǰiakan)
• Catalan: fijià
• Czech: fidžijský (cs)
• Danish: fijiansk
• Dutch: Fijisch (nl)
• Finnish: fidžiläinen (fi), fidžinkielinen (language)
• German: fidschianisch (de)
• Hawaiian: Pīkī
• Hungarian: fidzsi (hu)
• Irish: Fidsíoch, Fidsise (language)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fijiansk

  Nynorsk: fijiansk

• Polish: fidżyjski (pl)
• Portuguese: fijiano (pt) m
• Romanian: fijian
• Russian: фиджийский (ru) (fidžijskij)
• Spanish: fiyiano (es)
• Swedish: fijiansk (sv)
• Ukrainian: фіджі́йський (fidžíjsʹkyj)

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

• Afrikaans: Fidjiaans (af)
• Armenian: ֆիջի (hy) (fiǰi)
• Belarusian: фіджы́йская f (fidžýjskaja)
• Bulgarian: фиджийски m (fidžijski)
• Catalan: fijià m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 斐濟語／斐济语 (zh) (Fěijìyǔ)

• Czech: fidžijština f
• Danish: fijiansk
• Dutch: Fijisch (nl) n, Fijiaans (nl) n
• Esperanto: fiĝia lingvo
• Fijian: Na Vosa Vakaviti
• Finnish: fidži (fi)
• Galician: fidxiano (gl) m
• German: Fidschi (de) n, Fidschianisch (de) n
• Hungarian: fidzsi (hu)
• Icelandic: fídjíska (is) f
• Irish: Fidsis f
• Japanese: フィジー語 (ja) (Fijī-go)
• Macedonian: фиџиски m (fidžiski)
• Nauruan: dorerin Bidji
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fijiansk m

  Nynorsk: fijiansk m

• Polish: fidżyjski (pl) m
• Portuguese: fijiano (pt) m
• Romanian: fijiană f
• Russian: фиджийский (ru) m (fidžijskij)
• Rwanda-Rundi: Igifijiyani, Igifiji
• Serbo-Croatian: fidžijski (sh) m, фиџијски m
• Ukrainian: фіджійська f (fidžijsʹka)

Further reading

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Fijian terms
• ISO 639-1 code fj, ISO 639-3 code fij (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Fijian, fij ⁠