Fijian
See also: fijian
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: fē-jē'ən, IPA(key): /fiːˈdʒiːən/
- Rhymes: -iːən
Translations
a person from Fiji or of Fijian descent
Adjective
Fijian (not comparable)
- 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.
- 1871–72, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Chapter 3
Derived terms
Translations
of, or relating to, Fiji, its people, or its language
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Proper noun
Fijian
- an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken on Fiji. It has 650,000 speakers, including second language users.
Translations
language
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Further reading
- ISO 639-1 code fj, ISO 639-3 code fij
- Ethnologue entry for Fijian, fj
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