英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ɑˈhi/

名詞

aji (countable and uncountable, plural ajis or ajies)

1. (uncountable) A spicy Peruvian sauce, often containing tomatoes, cilantro, hot peppers, and onions.
   • 1847, Johann Jakob von Tschudi, Travels in Peru:

     In Peru the consumption of aji is greater than that of salt […]

2. (countable, cooking) A chili pepper, in the context of South American cuisine.
   • 1997, Antonio Montaña, Gloria Mercedes Duque, The Taste of Colombia, page 47:

     Add the onion, the garlic, the red pepper, the ajies, the pepper, cumin and salt.

語源 2

Borrowed from Japanese 鯵 (aji).

発音

• enPR: ăʹ-jē, äʹ-jē, IPA: /ˈæ.d͡ʒiː/, /ˈɑː.d͡ʒiː/

名詞

aji (plural ajis or ajies)

1. A horse mackerel, especially the Japanese horse mackerel, Trachurus japonicus
   • 2010, Dave Lowry, The Connoisseur's Guide to Sushi, ReadHowYouWant.com, →ISBN, page 77:

     Although aji are found in temperate waters around the world, if you have the fish in a sushi-ya here, it almost certainly was caught and frozen in Japan.

派生語

語源 3

Borrowed from Japanese 味 (aji, “flavour”).

発音

• enPR: ăʹ-jē, äʹ-jē, IPA: /ˈæ.d͡ʒiː/, /ˈɑː.d͡ʒiː/

名詞

aji (uncountable)

1. (go) The ‘flavour’ of a position, i.e. the extent to which it has lingering possibilities such as bad aji which may not be exploitable when they first arise yet still influence further play; good aji generally means there are few weaknesses.
2. (go) Bad aji.

   (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

使用する際の注意点

The sense of “lingering possibilities” is more basic but probably less common.

派生語

• bad aji
• good aji

アナグラム

• JIA, Jai, Jia