# vaj
## Translingual
### Symbol

vaj
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Sekele.

### See also

* Wiktionary’s coverage of Sekele terms

## English
### Alternative forms

* vadge, vag

### Pronunciation

* Audio (General Australian):(file)

### Noun

vaj (plural vajes)
* (slang, rare) The vagina.
** See Citations:vaj

### Anagrams

* JAV, jav

## Albanian
### Alternative forms

* vahj — Arbëresh
* valë — Cham
* voj — Gheg

### Etymology 1

* Uncertain. Perhaps from the alternative, the interjection meaning 'woe', connecting the tears with oil. Another theory suggests the term vaj might have evolved from Old Albanian *vaīlë (compare the dialectal forms) and earlier *ewaila, becoming cognate with Ancient Greek *ἐλαίϝα (*elaíwa) and Old Armenian եւղ (ewł, “oil”) both, in turn, deriving from a Mediterranean substrate language.
* From Proto-Albanian *u̯ɔλa, from Vulgar Latin *oli̯u, from Latin oleum, from Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion).

#### Noun

vaj m (plural vajra, definite vaji, definite plural vajrat)
* oil

#### Declension
### Derived terms

* vajguri (“petroleum”)

### Etymology 2

Possibly from Proto-Albanian *uai, from Proto-Indo-European *wáy, *uai (“woe!, alas!”); similar words are found in several European languages. Cognate to Ancient Greek ὀά (oá, “woe!, alas!”) and Old Armenian վայ (vay, “cry of pain”), Latin vae, Icelandic vei, Dutch wee, English woe. Compare also Romanian vai, Serbo-Croatian авај (avaj), Italian guai. In view of a widespread secondary meaning 'to cry', one may also consider Proto-Albanian *vabja, connected with Old Church Slavonic вабимо (vabimo, “being lured”), Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐍀𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wōpjan, “call out”), Old English wēpan (“weep, cry”).

#### Interjection

vaj
* woe!, alas!

##### Related terms

* vajtoj
* kukuvajkë

### References

* ↑ Stefan Schumacher & Joachim Matzinger, Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2013), 245.

## Francisco León Zoque
### Noun

vaj
* red morning glory (Ipomoea coccinea)

### References

* Engel, Ralph, Allhiser de Engel, Mary, Mateo Alvarez, José (1987) Diccionario zoque de Francisco León (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 30)‎ (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 218

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈvɒj]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒj

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *waje. Cognates include Northern Mansi во̄й (vōj) and Finnish voi.

#### Noun

vaj (countable and uncountable, plural vajak)
* butter (a soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk))
    Régen mindig vajjal főztünk. ― In the old days, we always cooked with butter.
* butter (any of various foodstuffs made from other foods or oils, similar in consistency to, eaten like or intended as a substitute for butter (preceded by the name of the food used to make it))
    mogyoróvaj ― peanut butter

##### Derived terms

* vajas
* vajaz
* kakaóvaj
* mogyoróvaj
* vajszínű
* tejben-vajban füröszt

### Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic, imitating an involuntary burst of sound.

#### Interjection

vaj
* (literary, obsolete) oh
    Synonyms: vajh, hej, haj, jaj

##### Derived terms

* vajmi

### References

* ↑ vaj in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.

### Further reading

* (butter): vaj in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* ([dialectal] or): vaj in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* ([archaic; alternative form of vajh] I wonder): vaj in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* ([poetic; obsolete; alternative form of vajh] oh): vaj in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Romani
### Conjunction

vaj
* or

## Swedish
### Etymology

Originally an older Stockholm pronunciation of varg (“wolf, defect product”), with loss of /r/ before /j/.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vaj/
* Rhymes: -aj

### Noun

vaj (indeclinable)
* (colloquial) something wrong

#### Derived terms

* vajsing

### References

* vaj in Svensk ordbok (SO)

## Tzotzil
### Pronunciation

* (Zinacantán) IPA: /βäh/

### Noun

vaj
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

#### Derived terms

* kaxlan vaj

### References

* “vah(3)” in Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

## White Hmong
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /va˥˧/

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle Chinese 王 (MC hjwang|hjwangH, “king”) or Mandarin 王 (wáng, “id”).

#### Noun

vaj (classifier: tus)
* king, ruler

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Hmong *waŋᴬ (“garden”), borrowed from Old Chinese 園 (OC *ɢʷan, “garden”). Cognate with Proto-Mien *hwunᴬ (“id”).

#### Noun

vaj (classifier: lub)
* a garden, an enclosure for planting vegetables, fruit, etc.
* a fence, arena, enclosed wall
    Tuaj, peb xov vaj ncig daim teb. ― Come, we'll put a fence around the field.
* a park

### References

* Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 398.
* ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25
* ↑ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 43; 166; 285.