paja

From Proto-Finnic [Term?]. Cognates include Estonian paja, Ingrian paja, Karelian paja, Ludian paja, Livvi paja, Veps paja and Votic paja.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑjɑ/, [ˈpɑjɑ]
• Hyphenation: pa‧ja
• Rhymes: -ɑjɑ

paja

1. smithy, forge
2. workshop
3. (slang) workplace

   Olin pajalla koko viikonlopun.

   I spent the whole weekend at work.

4. (slang) marijuana

• (workshop) työpaja
• (marijuana) pajari

• paia

From Latin palea, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”); compare Venetian paja.

paja

1. straw (dried stalks of cereal plants)

paja f

1. hand
2. paw

From Old Spanish, from Latin palea (“chaff”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”).

paja f (Latin spelling)

1. hay

From Old Spanish, from Latin palea (“chaff”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaxa/

paja f (plural pajas)

1. (countable) straw (dried stalk of a cereal plant)
2. (uncountable) straw (dried stalks considered collectively)

   Él tiene puesto un sombrero de paja.

   He is wearing a straw hat (lit. a hat made of straw)

3. A drinking straw
4. (slang) wank, handjob, masturbation

   (vulgar, Argentina, Colombia, Spain, Uruguay) Me hizo una paja muy rica en el coche mientras yo conducía.

   He/she gave me an awesome handjob in the car while I was driving.

5. (colloquial, countable, Guatemala, El Salvador) lie, falsehood

   Todos los políticos dicen pajas.

   All politicians tell lies.

6. (colloquial, uncountable, Colombia) bullshit, lies, falsehoods

   Todos los políticos hablan paja.

   All politicians tell lies.

7. (Peruvian Spanish) very good, great, excellent

   ¡Que canción paja tocaron en la radio!

   What a great song they played on the radio!

8. (vulgar, uncountable, Argentinian Spanish) laziness, tiredness, fatigue

   ¿Tenemos que caminar treinta cuadras? ¡Qué paja!

   We have to walk thirty blocks? But I'm so tired!

• pajar
• pajero
• pajoso

• “paja” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

paja (ma class, plural mapaja)

1. thigh

paja (present pajar, preterite pajade, supine pajat, imperative paja)

1. (slang) to accidentally break, to cause to malfunction

• paj
• tårta

From Latin palea. Compare Italian paglia

paja f (plural paje)

1. straw

Related to Finnish paja.

paja

1. smithy, forge
2. workshop, studio

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “ателье, кузница”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika