# saja
## Ese
### Noun

saja
* cockatoo

## Estonian
### Numeral

saja
* genitive singular of sada

## Hausa
### Etymology

Borrowed from English sarge.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sáː.(d)ʒàː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [sáː.d͡ʒàː]

### Noun

sājā̀ m (possessed form sājàn)
* sergeant (military rank)

#### Usage notes

When used as a title, the whole word is given low tone.

#### Related terms

* samanja

## Ido
### Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto saĝa, English sage, French sage, Italian saggio.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsaʒa/, /ˈsad͡ʒa/

### Adjective

saja
* wise, sensible
    Antonym: dessaja

#### Derived terms

* sajesar
* sajeso

## Indonesian
### Etymology 1

From Malay sahaja, saja, from Classical Malay سهاج (sahaja), ساج (saja), from Sanskrit सहज (sahaja, “natural, innate, original”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈsad͡ʒa/ [ˈsa.d͡ʒa]
* Rhymes: -ad͡ʒa
* Syllabification: sa‧ja

#### Adverb

saja
* also, besides; as well; further; too
    Synonyms: juga, pun
* merely, only, just, without any other reason etc. and nothing more
    Synonyms: cuma, hanya, semata-mata
* exclusively
* always
** at all times; throughout all time
** constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals (opposed to sometimes or occasionally)
    Synonym: selalu
* as you like, to any extent or degree
    Synonyms: seenaknya, sesuka hati
* preferably, rather
    Synonym: lebih baik
* very, extremely: used to firmly establish that nothing else surpasses in some respect as emphasis
    Synonym: sekali

##### Usage notes

If hanya and saja are in combined usage as a fixed collocation (i.e., hanya saja), it means "the catch is..." or "however."

##### Alternative forms

* aja (colloquial)
* sahaja (archaic or obsolete)
* sadja, sahadja (1901–1947, 1947–1972)

##### Synonyms

* hanya
* cuma

### Etymology 2
#### Pronoun

saja
* (1901–1947, 1947–1972) Superseded spelling of saya.

### Further reading

* “saja” 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.

## Malay
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sad͡ʒə/
* Rhymes: -ə

### Adverb

saja
* (informal) Alternative form of sahaja.

## Rayón Zoque
### Noun

saja
* wing
* fin

### References

* Harrison, Roy, B. de Harrison, Margaret, López Juárez, Francisco, Ordoñes, Cosme (1984) Vocabulario zoque de Rayón (Serie de diccionarios y vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 28)‎ (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 32

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish صایا (saya, “serge”). Skok attempts to derive this from صایمق (saymak, “to count”) (modern saymak), but it is perhaps more probably a medieval Wanderwort with its origins in Latin sagum (“coarse red military cloak”): compare English saye (“fine cloth similar to serge”), Portuguese saia (“skirt”), Italian saia (“a kind of fabric”) from the same source.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sǎja/
* Hyphenation: sa‧ja

### Noun

sàja f (Cyrillic spelling са̀ја)
* a kind of fine red broadcloth or serge; saye
* (Vranje dialect) a kind of sleeveless woman’s dress that ends above the knee

### References

* Drago Grdenić, editor (1953–1955), “sàja”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎ (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 14, Zagreb: JAZU, page 509
* Skok, Petar (1973) “saja”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 3 (poni² – Ž), Zagreb: JAZU, page 188

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsaxa/ [ˈsa.xa]
* Rhymes: -axa
* Syllabification: sa‧ja

### Verb

saja
* inflection of sajar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Sumerian
### Romanization

saja
* Romanization of 𒋃 (sag̃a)