FromSanskritनाग(nāga), probably ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*nogʷós(“naked”).

naja (pluralnajas)

1. A member of theNajagenus ofvenomoussnakes;cobras

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Borrowed fromNavajo[Term?].

naja (pluralnajas)

1. Anecklace orpendant made in the shape of the traditionalNavajo symbol of acrescent.

   Synonym:squash blossom necklace

   • 1973, Margery Bedinger,Indian Silver: Navajo and Pueblo Jewelers, Albuquerque, N.M.:University of New Mexico Press,→ISBN,page229:

     Carter has several illustrations of English horse amulets that clearly resemble early Navajonajas.

   • 1997,Lauran Paine,The White Bird, Thorndike, M.E.: Thorndike Press; Bath, Somerset: Chivers Press, published1998,→ISBN,page134:

     Belle came out of her dark place to show Sam her necklace. It was beautiful. In the center was anaja.

   • 2015 May 14, Victoria Gomelsky, “Beauty and Balance in Turquoise”, inThe New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.:The New York Times Company,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on2021-02-14:

     In Los Angeles, the designers Jacquie Aiche and Irene Neuwirth both said they had been seduced by Native American style. In April, Ms. Aiche debuted a limited collection of leather bolo ties anchored by a crescent-shaped pendant not unlike the traditional Navajonaja symbol, while Ms. Neuwirth showed a long rainbow-colored strand of gemstones whose silhouette recalls a luxe version of thenaja, or squash blossom necklace.

• Jana

naja

1. Contraction ofnou ja.

• IPA^(key):/na.ʒa/

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naja m (pluralnajas)

1. cobra (venomous snake)

• “naja”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

• na ja

na +‎ja.

• IPA^(key):/na(ː)ˈja(ː)/

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naja

1. well
2. uh-huh,if you say so(expresses disagreement with what was said but an unwillingness to argue about it)

   —Ich finde, Justin Bieber ist der größte kanadische Musiker seit Neil Young!
   —Naja.

   —I think Justin Bieber’s the greatest Canadian musician since Neil Young!
   —Uh-huh.

• “naja” inDigitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “naja” in Uni Leipzig:Wortschatz-Lexikon

• (Nuuk)IPA^(key):/naja/,[nə.ja]

naja (pluralnajat)

1. Alternative form ofnajak

naja f (uncountable)

1. Alternative form ofnaia(“compulsory military conscription”)

FromProto-Nahuan*nəh. CompareClassical Nahuatlnehhuātl(“I”).

• IPA^(key):/ˈnaha/

naja

1. (personal)I, first person singular pronoun.

   Naja nimayana.

   I’m hungry.

• ni- (subject marker)
• nech- (object marker)

FromSanskritनाग(nāgá,“serpent, snake”).

• Rhymes:-aʒɐ
• Hyphenation:na‧ja

naja f (pluralnajas)

1. naja(any snake of the genusNaja)

   Synonyms:cobra-de-capelo,cobra-capelo

• The gender of this Portuguese zoonym is always feminine: when the gender of the being itself must be specified, use “najamacho” for male, and “najafêmea” for female. Here,macho is treated as an undeclinable noun and don't necessarily need to agree in gender with the referent, but would change tomacha if so.

FromSanskritनाग(nāgá,“serpent, snake”).

• IPA^(key):/ˈnaxa/[ˈna.xa]
• Rhymes:-axa
• Syllabification:na‧ja

naja f (pluralnajas)

1. a member of theNajagenus ofvenomoussnakes;cobra

   Synonym:cobra

• “naja”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

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naja f (invariable)

1. conscription,military service