goja

See also: goją and ĝoja

Albanian

Noun

goja

1. definite nominative singular of gojë

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɡɔ.ʒə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈɡɔ.d͡ʒa]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Etymology 1

Cognate with Occitan goja (“waitress”) (originally "young woman, maid"), perhaps from Hebrew גויה (goyá, “gentile woman”).

Noun

goja f (plural goges) (folklore)

1. fairy
2. water nymph

   Synonyms: aloja, dona d'aigua, encantada, patida

   Hypernym: nimfa

Derived terms

• gojar

Etymology 2

Verb

goja

1. inflection of gojar (“to bewitch”):
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Etymology 3

Verb

goja

1. inflection of gojar (“to enjoy; to benefit from”):
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “goja”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

French

Alternative forms

• goia

Noun

goja f (plural gojas)

1. (religion, obsolete) Christian woman

Occitan

Pronunciation

• Audio (Gascony):

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Noun

goja f (plural gojas)

1. waitress

References

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana‎^[1], L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2025, page 298

Swedish

Etymology

From papegoja.

Noun

goja c

1. (colloquial) a parrot (bird)

   Synonym: papegoja

2. (colloquial) gobbledygook, nonsense

   Han snackar bara en massa goja

   He just speaks a bunch of gobbledygook

   Vad snackar du för goja?

   What gobbledygook are you spewing?

   Vilken goja...

   What nonsense...

Declension

Declension of goja

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	goja	gojas
	definite	gojan	gojans
plural	indefinite	gojor	gojors
	definite	gojorna	gojornas

References

• “goja”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “goja”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “goja”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Turkmen

Other scripts
Latin	goja‍
Cyrillic	гоҗа‍
Arabic	قوجه

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian خْوَاجَه (xwāja). Doublet of hoja (“holy man”) and hojaýyn (“landlord, master, owner, proprietor, innkeeper”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɢoˈd͡ʒɑ/, [ɢoˈd͡ʒo]
• Hyphenation: go‧ja

Adjective

goja (comparative gojarak, superlative iň goja)

1. old, ancient

Noun

goja (definite accusative gojany, plural gojalar)

1. old man

   Synonym: ýaşuly

Declension

Declension of goja

	singular	plural
nominative	goja	gojalar
accusative	gojany	gojalary
genitive	gojanyň	gojalaryň
dative	gojā	gojalara
locative	gojada	gojalarda
ablative	gojadan	gojalardan

Derived terms

• gojalmak (“to age”)
• gojalyk (“old age”)
• gojaman (“old man; ancient”)

Further reading

• “goja” in Enedilim.com
• “goja” in Webonary.org