hoja

hoja

1. cover

• foja (obsolete)

Inherited from Old Spanish foja, from Late Latin folia, the plural of Classical Latin folium (“leaf”) reinterpreted as a feminine singular noun.

Doublet of folio, borrowed from Latin. Cognate with English foil and French feuille (“sheet, leaf”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈoxa/ [ˈo.xa]

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• Rhymes: -oxa
• Syllabification: ho‧ja

hoja f (plural hojas)

1. leaf (usually green and flat organ that is the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants)
2. petal (often brightly coloured component of the corolla of a flower)
3. blade (narrow leaf of a grass or cereal)
4. pad (floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant)
5. sheet, leaf (piece of paper, usually rectangular)

   Synonyms: foja, folio

6. page (one of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book)
7. form (blank document or template to be filled in by the user)
8. foil
9. blade (sharp cutting edge of a knife, sword, etc.)
10. pane (individual sheet of glass in a window)
11. side (of bacon)

• “hoja”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Borrowed from Arabic حُجَّة (ḥujja).^[1]

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hoja class IX (plural hoja class X)

1. dispute, argument
2. business, affair

Borrowed from Classical Persian خْوَاجَه (xwāja). Doublet of goja (“old man”) and hojaýyn (“landlord, master, owner, proprietor, innkeeper”).

• IPA^(key): /χoˈd͡ʒɑ/, [χoˈd͡ʒo]
• Hyphenation: ho‧ja

hoja (definite accusative hojany, plural hojalar)

1. holy man

• “hoja” in Webonary.org