foja

See also: fója

Ladino

Alternative forms

• oja

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish foja, from Late Latin folia, from the nominative plural of Latin folium, probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yom (“leaf”), from *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”). See also folio, borrowed from the Latin. Cognate with English foil and French feuille (“sheet, leaf”).

Noun

foja f (Hebrew spelling פ׳וז׳ה, plural fojas)

1. leaf (phyllon)
   • 1994, Isak Papo, Cuentos Sobre los Sefardies de Sarajevo, Logos, →ISBN, page 150:

     Las verduras si lavan foja pur foja i si inshaguan unas kuantas vezes.

     The vegetation is washed leaf by leaf and it rinses itself repeatedly.

2. page (leaf)

   Synonym: pajina

   • 1982, Enrique Saporta y Beja, En torno de la torre blanca‎^[1], Editions Vidas Largas, page 71:

     El padre de famiya lo dechava syempre en ereda a su primer fijo i en la primera foja se meldava los nombres de las personas ke lo avian resivido en ereda.

     The family's father was forever leaving it inherited to his first son and in the first page the names of the people who had received this inheritance were being read.

   • 2007, Moshe 'Ha-Elion, Las angustias del enferno: las pasadias de un djidio de Saloniki en los kampos de eksterminasion almanes Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Melk i Ebensee‎^[2], Sentro Moshe David Gaon de Kultura Djudeo-Espanyola, Universidad Ben-Gurion del Negev, →ISBN, page 154:

     Sin me atadrar por un punto empesi a tornar las fojas de los livros.

     Without delaying myself at all I started to turn the books' pages.

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin folia, from the plural of Latin folium (“leaf”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhoʒa/

Noun

foja f (plural fojas)

1. leaf

Descendants

• Ladino: oja
• Spanish: hoja

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfoxa/ [ˈfo.xa]
• Rhymes: -oxa
• Syllabification: fo‧ja

Noun

foja f (plural fojas)

1. obsolete form of hoja; leaf, sheet
2. (Mexico, Peru) leaf, sheet (especially of an official document)

Further reading

• “foja”, 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
• “foja”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

Venetan

Etymology

From Latin folium.

Noun

foja f

1. leaf