# daj
## Translingual
### Symbol

daj
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Dar Fur Daju.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Dar Fur Daju terms

## Albanian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Albanian *danja, transformed from earlier Proto-Albanian *daja under the influence of other verbs ending in -nj, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂-ye-tor, from *deh₂- (“to share, divide”) (compare Ancient Greek δαίομαι (daíomai), Sanskrit दयते (dáyate)).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [daj]

### Verb

daj (aorist dava, participle darë) (transitive)
* to divide

#### Inflection

* Show compound tenses:

#### Derived terms

* dalloj
* ndaj
* përdaj

#### Related terms

* ditë
* gdhe

### References

* Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “daj”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 54

## Lower Sorbian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [daj]

### Verb

daj
* second-person singular imperative of daś

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdaj/
* Rhymes: -aj
* Syllabification: daj

### Verb

daj
* second-person singular imperative of dać

## Romani
### Etymology

Compare Hindi दादी (dādī), Hindi दाई (dāī), Kurdish.

### Noun

daj f (plural daja)
* mother
    Antonym: dad

### References

* ↑ Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “daj”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 64

### Further reading

* Marcel Courthiade (2009) “i daj¹, -a ʒ. -a, -en = i d/aj¹, -ia ʒ. -ia, -ien”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, pages 119-120
* Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “daj”, in ニューエクスプレス　ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, →ISBN, pages 22, 135
* Alinčová, Milena (2002 September) “Daj / Dad (Mother / Father)”, in ROMBASE Cultural Database‎, Prague, archived from the original on 19 October 2021

## Welsh Romani
### Noun

daj f
* mother
    Antonym: dad

#### Derived terms

* båri daj
* båri phuri daj
* dadeski phuri daj
* daki båri daj
* daki phuri daj
* dir develeski daj
* paverdi daj
* phureder daj
* phuri daj
* pårni daj
* stifi daj
* tikneski daj
* xoxani daj

### References

* “daj” in Welsh Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.

## White Hmong
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Hmong *ɢʷaŋᴬ (“yellow”), borrowed from Old Chinese 黃 (OC *ɡʷaːŋ, “yellow”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /da˥˧/

### Adjective

daj
* yellow

### References

* Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN.
* ↑ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 243.

## Zhuang
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Zhuang) IPA: /ta˥/
* Tone numbers: da$^3$
* Hyphenation: daj

### Etymology 1

From Chinese 打 (“to hit; dummy verb; from”).

#### Verb

daj (Sawndip form 打, 1957–1982 spelling daз)
* to hit; to strike
    daj caekhaex ― to hit the buttocks; to spank
* Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun.
** to send; to call
    daj denva ― to make a phone call
** to pump; to inject
    daj yizmyauz ― to give a vaccine
** to make; to build
    daj cien ― to make bricks
** to buy (a liquid food item)
** to fix; to offer; to set (a price)
** to amount to; to add up to
** to play (a sport involving balls with hand)

#### Preposition

daj (Sawndip form 打, 1957–1982 spelling daз)
* from

### Etymology 2

From Chinese 打 (“dozen”), ultimately from English dozen.

#### Classifier

daj (1957–1982 spelling daз)
* dozen