Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fijian

/fiːˈd͡ʒiːən/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.89 in modern English

Syllables: fi-jian
IPA: /fiːˈd͡ʒiːən/

16

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

3

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A person from Fiji or of Fijian descent.

adj

Pertaining to Fiji, or its language or people.

name

an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken on Fiji. It has 650,000 speakers, including second language users.

Example Sentences

"[S]he 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."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Polynesian *fiti Tongan Fisibor. English Fiji Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Fijian From Fiji + -an.

Inflected Forms

Fijians (plural) Feejeean (alternative) Fejeean (alternative)

Derived Forms

Fijianness

Synonyms

fijian language

Rhymes With

sahagian central european korean ian caribbean iain lien dalian tanzanian rian plebeian paean

Questions

How do you pronounce fijian?: The recorded pronunciation is /fiːˈd͡ʒiːən/.
What does fijian mean?: A person from Fiji or of Fijian descent.
Where does fijian come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Polynesian *fiti Tongan Fisibor. English Fiji Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Fijian From Fiji + -an.

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