# aji
## English
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish ají.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɑˈhi/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

#### Noun

aji (countable and uncountable, plural ajis or ajies)
* (uncountable) A spicy Peruvian sauce, often containing tomatoes, cilantro, hot peppers, and onions.
** 1847, Johann Jakob von Tschudi, Travels in Peru:In Peru the consumption of aji is greater than that of salt […]
* (countable, cooking) A chili pepper, in the context of South American cuisine.
** 1997, Antonio Montaña, Gloria Mercedes Duque, The Taste of Colombia, page 47:Add the onion, the garlic, the red pepper, the ajies, the pepper, cumin and salt.

### Etymology 2

From Japanese 鯵 (aji).

#### Noun

aji (uncountable)
* A horse mackerel, especially the Japanese horse mackerel, Trachurus japonicus
** 2010, Dave Lowry, The Connoisseur's Guide to Sushi, ReadHowYouWant.com, →ISBN, page 77:Although aji are found in temperate waters around the world, if you have the fish in a sushi-ya here, it almost certainly was caught and frozen in Japan.

### Etymology 3

From Japanese 味 (aji, “flavour”).

#### Pronunciation

* enPR: ăʹ-jē, äʹ-jē, IPA: /ˈæ.d͡ʒiː/, /ˈɑː.d͡ʒiː/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

#### Noun

aji (uncountable)
* (go) The ‘flavour’ of a position, i.e. the extent to which it has lingering possibilities such as bad aji which may not be exploitable when they first arise yet still influence further play; good aji generally means there are few weaknesses.
* (go) Bad aji.
* This entry needs quotations to illustrate usage. If you come across any interesting, durably archived quotes then please add them!

##### Usage notes

The sense of “lingering possibilities” is more basic but probably less common.

##### Derived terms

* bad aji
* good aji

### Anagrams

* JIA, Jai, Jia

## Balinese
### Romanization

aji
* Romanization of ᬳᬚᬶ

## Czech
### Alternative forms

* aj

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈajɪ]

### Conjunction

aji
* (dialect, Moravia) and (also), and even
* (dialect, Moravia) even (implying an extreme example, used at the beginning of sentences)

#### Synonyms

* (standard Czech) i

### Further reading

* “aji”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)

## Drehu
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɑði/

### Noun

aji
* rat

### References

* Tyron, D.T., Hackman, B. (1983) Solomon Islands languages: An internal classification. Cited in: "Dehu" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
* Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "ⁿDe’u" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

## Franco-Provençal
### Verb

aji (Bressan, Graphie de Conflans)
* Alternative form of ag·ir (“to act”) documented in the following location(s): St-Étienne

## Haitian Creole
### Etymology

From French agir (“act”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.ʒi/

### Verb

aji
* act

#### References
## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈad͡ʒi/
* Rhymes: -d͡ʒi
* Hyphenation: a‧ji

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Malay aji, from Javanese ꦲꦗꦶ (aji), from Old Javanese aji.

#### Adjective

aji
* magical

#### Noun

aji (plural aji-aji)
* incantation
* secret formula, charm

#### Derived terms

* ajian
* ajisesirep

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Malay aji, from Javanese ꦲꦗꦶ (aji), from Old Javanese aji, haji. Cognate with Tagalog hari.

#### Noun

aji (plural aji-aji)
* king
    Synonyms: baginda, raja

### Further reading

* “aji” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Japanese
### Romanization

aji
* Rōmaji transcription of あじ
* Rōmaji transcription of アジ

## Javanese
### Romanization

aji
* Romanization of ꦲꦗꦶ

## Kabuverdianu
### Alternative forms

* ají (Barlavento)

### Etymology

From Portuguese agir.

### Verb

aji
* (Sotavento) act

### References

* Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN
* Veiga, Manuel (2012) Dicionário Caboverdiano-Português, Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro

## Marshallese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 箸 (hashi).

### Pronunciation

* (phonetic) IPA: [ɑzʲi]
* (phonemic) IPA: /ɰætʲij/
* Bender phonemes: {hajiy}

### Noun

aji
* chopsticks

### References

* Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

## Mauritian Creole
### Etymology

From Marathi आजी (ājī).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /adʒi/

### Noun

aji
* grandmother
    Synonym: granmer

## Mokilese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 箸 (hashi).

### Pronunciation

IPA: /aci/

### Noun

aji
* chopsticks

#### References

* Harrison, Sheldon P., Mokilese-English Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1977

## Naga Pidgin
### Etymology

Inherited from Assamese আজি (azi).

### Adverb

aji
* today

#### Related terms

* kali

## Northern Sami
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* (Kautokeino) IPA: /ˈajiː/

### Noun

aji
* drowse, doze
* daze

#### Derived terms

* adjágas

#### Further reading

* Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

## Old Javanese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.d͡ʒi/
* Rhymes: -d͡ʒi
* Hyphenation: a‧ji

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

aji
* Alternative spelling of haji (“king”)

### Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Noun

aji
* holy writ, scripture, sacred text
* authoritative text
* sacred formula

##### Derived terms

* inaji
* inajyan
* kahaji
* maṅaji
* paṅajyan
* pinakāji
* umaji

#### Noun

aji
* value

##### Derived terms

* ajinan
* iṅajen
* paṅaji

#### Descendants

* Javanese: ꦲꦗꦶ (aji, “amulet; value, worth”)
* → Balinese: ᬳᬚᬶ (aji, “price; knowledge”)

### Further reading

* "aji" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

## Sundanese
### Etymology

From Old Javanese aji (“holy writ; scripture; value”)

### Noun

aji (Sundanese script ᮃᮏᮤ)
* sacred formula; mantra; incantation
    Synonyms: jampé, mantra
* (uncommon) value
Sundanese register set :
| lemes | aos |
| lemes ka sorangan | {{{les}}} |
| lemes ka batur | {{{leb}}} |
| loma | aji |
| cohag | {{{co}}} |

### Verb

aji (Sundanese script ᮃᮏᮤ, active ngaji)
* to read (especially a sacred or holy text)

#### Derived terms

* ajian
* ajieun
* ajén
* diaji
* ngaji
* ngajén
* ngajénan
* pangaji

### Further reading

* "ADJI", in Coolsma, S (1913) Soendaneesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek (in Dutch), Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij