A person from Fiji or of Fijian descent.
fijian
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for fijian.
Editorial note
It's a photo of Fijian women on a Fijian mat (woven pandanus leaves).
Quick take
A person from Fiji or of Fijian descent.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of fijian gathered in one view.
an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken on Fiji. It has 650,000 speakers, including second language users.
Pertaining to Fiji, or its language or people.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for fijian.
noun
A person from Fiji or of Fijian descent.
noun
an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken on Fiji. It has 650,000 speakers, including second language users.
adjective
Pertaining to Fiji, or its language or people.
Example sentences
It's a photo of Fijian women on a Fijian mat (woven pandanus leaves).
The video is online, so if it ever comes to the attention of the Fiji Civil Aviation Authority, they could come down hard on local (fijian) UAV operators and hobbyists.
Why is it a human right for a Russian or a Fijian or an Argentinian to vote in the French elections?
It was a decision by the Fijian government to start sending people to India instead.
For example, the Fijian ( vosa vakaviti ) word for internet is mona livaliva.
Do Fijian rugby games see a 0.5% increase in longest drop goal distance?
Another example is Fijian 'kava' (a root that is crushed and dried into a powder, then filtered into water and consumed as a drink).
Anne Becker may be really into preserving traditional Fijian culture or whatever but it sounds like some of the local girls don’t want to anymore.
I did try kava in small Fijian island with no running water.
On a side note, I've been working on my startup whilst travelling the states, Hawaiian Islands and backpacking through the Fijian Yasawa Islands and just got back to the UK.
In the last year I've taken about 10 weeks vacation, travelled all across the States, Hawaiian Islands, Fijian Islands (Yasawa's), Australia, Sweden and Snowboarding twice.
If the shipping company can recoup some of those costs (labor, fuel, insurance, etc.) by selling the otherwise empty space to someone who sells bottled island water, it's a net gain for both the shipping company and the Fijian economy.
Quote examples
Mona means brain and livaliva is electricity, so the Fijian word for internet means "electric brain".
My neighbor and friend was an "Expat" Fijian working on a two year bank rotation.
The same is true of "polynesian" -- sure, they might have been isolated at one point but by now almost every "polynesian" you meet in Hawaii has a ton of white and japanese ancestry too (substitute appropriate mixing for Maori or Samoan and Fijian, etc...), so what use is it to talk about the potential IQ effects his great-great-grandparents might have had?
Proper noun examples
Fijian pilots get the shaft though, and only barely get by on their wages.
Taro leaves (rourou in Fijian) are cooked for a long time (for a vegetable) in order to break down the oxalic acid.
I was recently in Fiji - of note, Google Translate does not support Fijian; however GPT-4 did a lovely job of it.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use fijian in a sentence?
It's a photo of Fijian women on a Fijian mat (woven pandanus leaves).
What does fijian mean?
A person from Fiji or of Fijian descent.
What part of speech is fijian?
fijian is commonly used as noun, adjective.