Fijian

See also: fijian

English

Alternative forms

(obsolete spellings): Feejeean, Fejeean

Etymology

Fiji +‎ -an

Pronunciation

• enPR: fē-jē'ən, IPA^(key): /fiːˈdʒiːən/
• 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 (fiǰiacʿi)
• Catalan: fijià m
• Czech: Fidžijec m
• French: Fidjien (fr) m, Fidjienne (fr) f
• German: Fidschianer (de) m, Fidschianerin (de) f
• Hawaiian: Pīkī
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fijianer m

  Nynorsk: fijian m, fijianar m

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

Adjective

Fijian (not comparable)

1. 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.

Derived terms

• Fijianness

Translations

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

• Armenian: ֆիջիական (fiǰiakan)
• Catalan: fijià
• Czech: fidžijský
• German: fidschianisch (de)
• Hawaiian: Pīkī
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fijiansk

  Nynorsk: fijiansk

• Portuguese: fijiano (pt) m
• Romanian: fijian
• Russian: фиджийский (ru) (fidžijskij)
• Spanish: fiyiano (es) m
• Swedish: fijiansk (sv)

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)
• Belarusian: фіджы́йская f (fidžýjskaja)
• Bulgarian: фиджийски m (fidžijski)
• Czech: fidžijština f
• Esperanto: fiĝia lingvo
• Fijian: na vosa vaka-Viti (fj)
• Finnish: fidži (fi)
• Galician: fidxiano (gl) m
• German: Fidschi (de) n, Fidschianisch (de) n
• 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

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