faja

fajar

  1. to wrap
  2. (Latin-America) to smack, thwack, pummel (hit)
  3. (Canary-Islands, Caribbean, reflexive) to fight
  4. (reflexive) to bind (to wear a binder so as to flatten one’s chest)

Frequency

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Hyphenated as
fa‧ja
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈfaxa/
Etymology

In summary

Borrowed from Aragonese faixa, from Latin fascia, whence also the now rare inherited doublet haza (“portion of land for sowing”).

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