Manjaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• maanja, manjha

名詞

manja (countable and uncountable, plural manjas)

1. String coated with crushed glass and attached to a kite, used to cut the strings of other kites in kite fighting.
   • 2008, Bapsi Sidhwa, The Pakistani Bride‎, Milkweed Editions, →ISBN, page 54:

     In spring when the sky was dotted with paper kites, the young men and boys allowed the girls to hold the manja, kite string made abrasive with finely crushed glass.

Further reading

• manja (string) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

語源 2

Borrowed from Malay manja.

形容詞

manja (comparative more manja, superlative most manja)

1. (Singapore) Adoring; affectionate; tending to coddle somebody.
   • 1980, Felix Chia, The Babas, page 24:

     […] the same note of clinging affection is present. This leads others to rightly conclude that the brother and the sister are manja towards each other.