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ja

ja adverb: yes.

Adverb

ja (not comparable)

  1. (South Africa, informal) Yes.
    • Ja, he had been fooled and it was not pleasant for a man to go home and tell his wife that he been verneuked.1940, Penguin Parade (issue 7, page 25)

Noun

ja (plural jas or ja)

  1. (Korean units of measure) Synonym of Korean foot: a traditional unit of length equivalent to about 30.3 cm.
    Synonyms:
    Korean foot

Proper noun (1) capitalized: JA

JA

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Japan: a country in East Asia (NATO country code).
  2. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Jamaica: a country in the Caribbean.
  3. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Jalisco: a state of Mexico.
  4. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Jambi: a province of Indonesia.
  5. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Jammu and Kashmir: a union territory of India.
  6. (abbreviation, postpositional) Abbreviation of judge or justice of a court of appeal.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: JA

JA

  1. (German) Young Alternative for Germany.
    • 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...2023 May 24, Nadine Schmidt and Sophie Tanno, “Germany intensifies scrutiny of far-right AfD, labeling its youth wing ‘extremist’”, in CNN

ja meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam

ja in Tamil

ஜா

ja in Bengali

জা

ja in Telugu

జా, జ

ja in Malayalam

ജാ, ജ
More languagesFewer languages
ja in Kannada
ಜಾ
ja in Odia
ଜା

Examples of ja in a sentence

  • The baccy crop's looking good, ja, and one of the mombies calved this morning.
  • The sense of déja vu is caught up in my vague, fluish dreams.
  • Ja well no fine, so I agree that it does drizzle here too.

All 10 example sentences with ja

Synonyms of ja

  • Korean foot

Forms of ja

Adverb
alternative formya
Noun
pluraljas
pluralja
alternative formcha

Plural of ja: jas or ja

Origin of ja

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

From the Revised Romanization of Korean 자 (ja).

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

Words formed from ja

Questions about ja

What does ja mean?
Ja means yes.
What is ja in Tamil?
Ja in Tamil is ஜா. See Ja meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ja?
Ja can be an adverb, a noun or a proper noun.

Words near ja in the dictionary

  1. J6
  2. J6-er
  3. J6-ers
  4. J6er
  5. J6ers
  6. ja
  7. ja well no fine
  8. Ja.
  9. JAAC
  10. jaadi
  11. jaadugar

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ja (page history and authors); JA (page history and authors); ja (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ja (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ja (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ja (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ja (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ja (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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