ruja

See also: Ruja, rujă, rują, and rujā

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀭𑀼𑀚 (Brahmi script)
• रुज (Devanagari script)
• রুজ (Bengali script)
• රුජ (Sinhalese script)
• ရုဇ or ရုၹ (Burmese script)
• รุช or รุชะ (Thai script)
• ᩁᩩᨩ (Tai Tham script)
• ຣຸຊ or ຣຸຊະ (Lao script)
• រុជ (Khmer script)
• 𑄢𑄪𑄎 (Chakma script)

Verb

ruja

1. imperative active second-person singular of rujati (“to hurt”)

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *řuja. The late attestation of the word in Polish may indicate borrowing, most likely from Ukrainian руя (ruja). Compare Czech říje.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈru.ja/

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• Rhymes: -uja
• Syllabification: ru‧ja

Noun

ruja f (diminutive rujka, related adjective rujowy)

1. (biology) heat, oestrus (state of a female animal that is ready for mating)
2. (humorous, idiomatic) sexual arousal

   Synonym: podniecenie

Declension

Declension of ruja

	singular	plural
nominative	ruja	ruje
genitive	rui	rui
dative	rui	rujom
accusative	ruję	ruje
instrumental	rują	rujami
locative	rui	rujach
vocative	rujo	ruje

Derived terms

nouns

• ruja i porubstwo
• rujka
• rujowisko

Related terms

verbs

• rzuć impf
• rzwać impf
• rzwieć impf

Further reading

• “ruja”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “ruja”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)
• Brückner, Aleksander (1927), “ruja”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna

Portuguese

Verb

ruja

1. inflection of rugir:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Romanian ruj

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Romanian -a

Romanian ruja

From ruj + -a.

Verb

a ruja (third-person singular present rujează, past participle rujat) 1st conjugation

1. to apply lipstick

Conjugation

    conjugation of ruja (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a ruja
gerund			rujând
past participle			rujat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	rujez	rujezi	rujează	rujăm	rujați	rujează
	imperfect	rujam	rujai	ruja	rujam	rujați	rujau
	simple perfect	rujai	rujași	rujă	rujarăm	rujarăți	rujară
	pluperfect	rujasem	rujaseși	rujase	rujaserăm	rujaserăți	rujaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să rujez	să rujezi	să rujeze	să rujăm	să rujați	să rujeze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		rujează			rujați
	negative		nu ruja			nu rujați

Sardinian

Adjective

ruja

1. feminine singular of ruju

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈruxa/ [ˈru.xa]
• Rhymes: -uxa
• Syllabification: ru‧ja

Verb

ruja

1. inflection of rugir:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative