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Ja

adv, name, noun, slang

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    Yes. South-Africa, informal, not-comparable

    "Ja, he had been fooled and it was not pleasant for a man to go home and tell his wife that he been verneuked."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Abbreviation of Japan: a country in East Asia (NATO country code). abbreviation, alt-of
  2. 2
    Young Alternative for Germany. German

    "In a statement in April, the intelligence agency deemed the AfD’s youth wing, the Young Alternative for Germany or Junge Alternative für Deutschland (JA), as “clearly xenophobic” and “propagating a racial concept of society based on basic biological assumptions.” It deemed the group was likely to adopt “non-peaceful behavior” towards people perceived as foreign. […] According to the BfV, the JA promotes an ethno-nationalist worldview that ostracizes anyone who is not a native, white German."

  3. 3
    Abbreviation of Jamaica: a country in the Caribbean. abbreviation, alt-of
  4. 4
    Abbreviation of Jalisco: a state of Mexico. abbreviation, alt-of
  5. 5
    Abbreviation of Jambi: a province of Indonesia. abbreviation, alt-of
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  1. 6
    Abbreviation of Jammu and Kashmir: a union territory of India. abbreviation, alt-of
  2. 7
    Abbreviation of judge or justice of a court of appeal. abbreviation, alt-of, postpositional
Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of Korean foot: a traditional unit of length equivalent to about 30.3 cm.

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German JA (“Junge Alternative für Deutschland”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Afrikaans ja (“yes”), from Dutch ja (“yes”). More at yea.

Etymology 3

From the Revised Romanization of Korean 자 (ja).

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