Fiji

See also: fiji

English

Alternative forms

• Viti
• (obsolete spellings): Feejee, Fejee, Feegee

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Polynesian *fiti

Tongan Fisibor.

English Fiji

Borrowed from Tongan Fisi (historically pronounced with a palatal affricate, IPA^(key): [ˈfit͡ʃi]), itself borrowed from Fijian Viti, from Proto‐Central Pacific *viti ‘east, sunrise’. The English spelling ‘Fiji’ was popularized by Captain James Cook’s phonetic transcription of the 18th‐century Tongan pronunciation.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: fēʹjē, fējēʹ, IPA^(key): /ˈfiːdʒiː/, /fiːˈdʒiː/

  • Audio (UK):

    (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfiːdʒiː/

  • Audio (US):

    (file)

• (Australia) IPA^(key): /fiːˈdʒiː/
• Rhymes: -iːdʒi

Proper noun

Fiji

2. A country and archipelago of over 300 islands in Melanesia in Oceania. Capital and largest city: Suva.
   • 2016 September 1, “2015 POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS”, in National Statistics Office Ministry of Finance‎^[1], archived from the original on 19 August 2019, page 25:

     Going to Christmas island may take several days with a stop in Fiji on the way and on return.

Usage notes

• Because English speakers adapted both vowels as long, heavy IPA^(key): /iː/ sounds, ‘Fiji’ acts as a spondee in that language. This causes stress fluctuation: speakers of North American English typically apply default first‐syllable noun stress (IPA^(key): /ˈfiː.d͡ʒi/), which coincidentally preserves the rhythmic pattern of the indigenous etymons. Conversely, speakers in the UK and Australia typically apply final‐syllable stress, a common pattern for foreign place names ending in heavy vowels (IPA^(key): /fiːˈd͡ʒiː/).

Holonyms

• Melanesia

Derived terms

• Fijian
• Fiji Islands
• Republic of Fiji (present-day official name)
• Republic of the Fiji Islands (former official name)

Descendants

• → Japanese: フィジー (Fijī)
• → Ulithian: Fiichi

Translations

Fiji - a country in Oceania comprising over 300 islands

• Afrikaans: Fidji
• Albanian: Fixhi
• Amharic: ፊጂ (fiǧi)
• Arabic: فِيجِي m (fījī)

  Hijazi Arabic: فيجي f (fīji)

• Armenian: Ֆիջի (Fiǰi)
• Asturian: Islles Fixi (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Fici (az)
• Balinese: Fiji
• Belarusian: Фі́джы pl (Fídžy)
• Bengali: ফিজি (bn) (phiji)
• Betawi: Piji
• Breton: Fidji
• Bulgarian: Фи́джи (Fídži)
• Burmese: ဖီဂျီ (hpigyi)
• Catalan: Fiji (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 斐濟 / 斐济 (zh) (Fěijì)

• Czech: Fidži (cs) n
• Danish: Fiji (da)
• Dhivehi: ފިޖީ (fijī)
• Dutch: Fiji (nl) n
• Esperanto: Fiĝio sg, Fiĝioj pl
• Estonian: Fidži (et)
• Faroese: Fidji n, Fidjioyggjar f pl
• Fijian: Viti (fj)
• Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी (fijī)
• Finnish: Fidži (fi)
• French: Fidji (fr) f pl
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: Fidzjy

• Galician: Fidxi (gl)
• Georgian: ფიჯი (ka) (piǯi)
• German: Fidschi (de) n
• Greek: Φίτζι (el) n (Fítzi)
• Hawaiian: Pīkī
• Hebrew: פיג׳י (fiji)
• Hindi: फ़िजी (hi) (fijī), फिजी (hi) (phijī)
• Hungarian: Fidzsi-szigetek (hu)
• Icelandic: Fídjieyjar (is)
• Indonesian: Fiji (id)
• Interlingua: Fiji
• Irish: Fidsí
• Italian: Figi (it) f pl
• Japanese: フィジー (ja) (Fijī)
• Javanese: Fiji
• Kalenjin: Fiji
• Kamba: Fiji, Fiji
• Kazakh: Фиджи (kk) (Fıydjıy)
• Khmer: ហ៊្វីជី (hviicii)
• Kikuyu: Fiji
• Korean: 피지 (ko) (Piji)
• Kyrgyz: Фижи (ky) (Fiji)
• Lao: ຟິຈິ (fi chi)
• Latvian: Fidži
• Lithuanian: Fidžis (lt)
• Luhya: Fiji
• Luo: Fiji
• Macedonian: Фиџи n (Fidži)
• Malayalam: ഫിജി (phiji)
• Māori: Whītī
• Marathi: फिजी m (phijī)
• Meru: Fiji
• Mongolian: Фижи (Fiži)
• Navajo: Táłkááʼ Diłhiłii Bikéyah
• Norman: Fiji
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Fiji (no)

  Nynorsk: Fiji (nn)

• Persian: فیجی (fiji)
• Polish: Fidżi (pl)
• Portuguese: Fiji (pt) f pl
• Rarotongan: Vītī
• Romanian: Fiji (ro) m
• Russian: Фи́джи (ru) m inan pl (Fídži)
• Samoan: Fiti
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Фиџи m

  Latin: Fȉdži (sh) m

• Sinhalese: ෆීජි (fīji)
• Slovak: Fidži (sk) n
• Slovene: Fidži (sl) m
• Spanish: Fiyi (es)
• Sundanese: Fiji
• Swahili: Fiji (sw)
• Swedish: Fiji (sv)
• Tagalog: Pidyi
• Tajik: Фиҷӣ (Fiji)
• Tamil: பிஜி (piji), ஃபிஜி (fiji)
• Thai: ฟีจี (th) (fii-jii)
• Tokelauan: Fiti
• Tongan: Fisi
• Turkish: Fiji (tr)
• Turkmen: Fiji
• Tuvaluan: Fiti
• Ukrainian: Фі́джі pl (Fídži)
• Ulithian: Fiichi
• Urdu: فجی (fijī)
• Uzbek: Fiji (uz)
• Vietnamese: Phi-gi, Phi-di
• Wallisian: Fisi
• Yiddish: פֿידזשי (fidzhi)
• Yoruba: Fíjì

See also

countries in Oceania (appendix)edit

• Australia
• Cook Islands
• Fiji
• Kiribati
• Marshall Islands
• Micronesia
• Nauru
• New Zealand
• Niue
• Palau
• Papua New Guinea
• Samoa
• Solomon Islands
• Tonga
• Tuvalu
• Vanuatu

• Suva
• Countries of the world

Further reading

• Category:Fiji on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Fiji on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Fiji on Wikivoyage.Wikivoyage

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Fijian Viti, from Proto-Central Pacific *viti "east, sunrise".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central, Northwestern) [ˈfi.ʒi]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈfi.d͡ʒi]

• Audio (Valencia):

  (file)

Proper noun

Fiji m

1. Fiji (a country and archipelago of over 300 islands in Melanesia in Oceania)

Derived terms

• fijià
• illes Fiji

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Fijian Viti, from Proto-Central Pacific *viti "east, sunrise".

Proper noun

Fiji

1. Fiji (a country and archipelago of over 300 islands in Melanesia in Oceania)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Fijian Viti, from Proto-Central Pacific *viti "east, sunrise".

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Fiji n

1. Fiji (a country and archipelago of over 300 islands in Melanesia in Oceania)

Interlingua

Etymology

Borrowed from Fijian Viti, from Proto-Central Pacific *viti "east, sunrise".

Proper noun

Fiji

1. Fiji (a country and archipelago of over 300 islands in Melanesia in Oceania)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Fijian Viti, from Proto-Central Pacific *viti "east, sunrise".

Proper noun

Fiji

1. Fiji (a country and archipelago of over 300 islands in Melanesia in Oceania)

Related terms

• fijianer
• fijiansk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Fijian Viti, from Proto-Central Pacific *viti "east, sunrise".

Proper noun

Fiji

1. Fiji (a country and archipelago of over 300 islands in Melanesia in Oceania)

Related terms

• fijian, fijianar
• fijiansk

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Fíji
• Fidji

Etymology

Borrowed from Fijian Viti, from Proto-Central Pacific *viti "east, sunrise".

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ʒi/, /ˈfi.d͡ʒi/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ʒi/, /ˈfid.ʒi/ [ˈfið.ʒi]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ʒi/, /ˈfid.ʒi/ [ˈfið.ʒi]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ʒi/, /ˈfid.ʒi/

Proper noun

Fiji f pl (plural only)

1. Fiji (a country and archipelago of over 300 islands in Melanesia in Oceania)

Derived terms

• fijiano

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Fijian Viti, from Proto-Central Pacific *viti "east, sunrise".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.d͡ʒi/

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Fiji m

1. Fiji (a country and archipelago of over 300 islands in Melanesia in Oceania)

Related terms

• fijian, fijiană

Further reading

• “Fiji”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Fijian Viti, from Proto-Central Pacific *viti "east, sunrise".

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Fiji n (genitive Fijis)

1. Fiji (a country and archipelago of over 300 islands in Melanesia in Oceania)

Related terms

• fijian
• fijiansk
• fijianska

See also

countries in Oceania: Oceaniens länder (appendix)edit

• Australien
• Cooköarna
• Fiji
• Kiribati
• Marshallöarna
• Mikronesien
• Nauru
• Nya Zeeland
• Palau
• Papua Nya Guinea
• Salomonöarna
• Samoa
• Tonga
• Tuvalu
• Vanuatu

References

• “Fiji”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• Svensk MeSH

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Fijian Viti, from Proto-Central Pacific *viti "east, sunrise".

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Fiji

1. Fiji (a country and archipelago of over 300 islands in Melanesia in Oceania)

Declension

Declension of Fiji

	singular
nominative	Fiji
accusative	Fiji'yi
dative	Fiji'ye
locative	Fiji'de
ablative	Fiji'den
genitive	Fiji'nin

Possessive forms of Fiji

	singular	plural
benim (my)	Fiji'm	Fijilerim Fiji'lerim
senin (your)	Fiji'n	Fijilerin Fiji'lerin
onun (his/her/its)	Fiji'si	Fijileri Fiji'leri
bizim (our)	Fiji'miz	Fijilerimiz Fiji'lerimiz
sizin (your)	Fiji'niz	Fijileriniz Fiji'leriniz
onların (their)	Fiji'si Fijileri Fiji'leri	Fijileri Fiji'leri

Derived terms

• Fijili

See also

countries in Oceania: Okyanusya ülkeleri (appendix)edit

• Avustralya
• Cook Adaları
• Fiji
• Kiribati
• Marshall Adaları
• Mikronezya
• Nauru
• Niue
• Palau
• Papua Yeni Gine
• Samoa
• Solomon Adaları
• Tonga
• Tuvalu
• Vanuatu
• Yeni Zelanda

Turkmen

Other scripts
Latin	Fiji
Cyrillic	Фиджи
Arabic	فیجی

Etymology

Borrowed from Fijian Viti, from Proto-Central Pacific *viti "east, sunrise".

Proper noun

Fiji

1. Fiji (a country and archipelago of over 300 islands in Melanesia in Oceania)

Uzbek

Etymology

Borrowed from Fijian Viti, from Proto-Central Pacific *viti "east, sunrise".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɸiˈd͡ʒi/
• Hyphenation: Fi‧ji

Proper noun

Fiji

1. Fiji (a country and archipelago of over 300 islands in Melanesia in Oceania)

Yoruba

Etymology

Fíjì

Borrowed from English Fiji.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fí.d͡ʒì/

Proper noun

Fíjì

1. Fiji (a country and archipelago of over 300 islands in Melanesia in Oceania)