caja

See also: cajá and càja

Amele

Noun

caja

1. woman

References

• John R. Roberts, Amele Organised Phonology Data (1998)

Mapudungun

Alternative forms

• challa (Unified Alphabet)

Noun

caja (Raguileo spelling)

1. cooking pot

References

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀘𑀚 (Brahmi script)
• चज (Devanagari script)
• চজ (Bengali script)
• චජ (Sinhalese script)
• စဇ or ၸၹ (Burmese script)
• จช or จะชะ (Thai script)
• ᨧᨩ (Tai Tham script)
• ຈຊ or ຈະຊະ (Lao script)
• ចជ (Khmer script)
• 𑄌𑄎 (Chakma script)

Adjective

caja

1. gerundive of cajati (“to give up”)

Declension

Declension table of "caja" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	cajo	cajā
Accusative (second)	cajaṃ	caje
Instrumental (third)	cajena	cajehi or cajebhi
Dative (fourth)	cajassa or cajāya or cajatthaṃ	cajānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	cajasmā or cajamhā or cajā	cajehi or cajebhi
Genitive (sixth)	cajassa	cajānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	cajasmiṃ or cajamhi or caje	cajesu
Vocative (calling)	caja	cajā

Declension table of "cajā" (feminine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	cajā	cajāyo or cajā
Accusative (second)	cajaṃ	cajāyo or cajā
Instrumental (third)	cajāya	cajāhi or cajābhi
Dative (fourth)	cajāya	cajānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	cajāya	cajāhi or cajābhi
Genitive (sixth)	cajāya	cajānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	cajāya or cajāyaṃ	cajāsu
Vocative (calling)	caje	cajāyo or cajā

Declension table of "caja" (neuter)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	cajaṃ	cajāni
Accusative (second)	cajaṃ	cajāni
Instrumental (third)	cajena	cajehi or cajebhi
Dative (fourth)	cajassa or cajāya or cajatthaṃ	cajānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	cajasmā or cajamhā or cajā	cajehi or cajebhi
Genitive (sixth)	cajassa	cajānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	cajasmiṃ or cajamhi or caje	cajesu
Vocative (calling)	caja	cajāni

Verb

caja

1. imperative active second-person singular of cajati (“to give up”)

Spanish

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Catalan caixa or Occitan caissa, from Latin capsa. (Latin /-ps-/ yields palatal outcomes in the latter two, but not in Spanish; cf. Latin ipse > Spanish ese, Catalan eixe.) Related to English case and cash and, more distantly, Spanish quijada.

Cognate with Asturian and Aragonese caxa (“box”), French caisse (“box”), châsse (“case, reliquary”), Galician, Mirandese, and Portuguese caixa (“box”), Italian cassa (“case”), Leonese caixa, caxa (“box”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaxa/ [ˈka.xa]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -axa
• Syllabification: ca‧ja

Noun

caja f (plural cajas)

1. box, case
2. bank
3. cash desk
4. cash register, register, cash box

   Synonym: caja registradora

5. gearbox
6. snare drum
7. (typography) case

Derived terms

• caja alta
• caja baja
• caja boba
• caja china
• caja de ahorros
• caja de amortización
• caja de cambios
• caja de caudales
• caja de cerillas
• caja de dientes
• caja de empleados
• caja de fusibles
• caja de herramientas
• caja de ingletes
• caja de instrumento
• caja de instrumentos
• caja de música
• caja de Pandora
• caja de pesas
• caja de pino
• caja de reclutamiento
• caja de resonancia
• caja de ritmos
• caja de seguridad
• caja de sorpresa
• caja de velocidades
• caja del cuerpo
• caja fuerte
• caja idiota
• caja negra
• caja registradora
• caja tonta
• caja torácica
• cajero
• cajetilla
• cajita (diminutive)
• cajón
• cajuela
• dar caja
• echar con cajas destempladas
• en caja
• entrar en caja
• flujo de caja
• hacer caja
• libro de caja

Descendants

• → Cebuano: kaha
• → Tagalog: kaha

Further reading

• “caja”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “caja”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎^[1] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 740

Anagrams

• jaca