canja

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Malayalam കഞ്ഞി (kaññi).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɐ̃.ʒɐ/

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃ʒɐ
• Hyphenation: can‧ja

Noun

canja f (plural canjas)

1. chicken soup (with rice)
2. (figuratively) anything that is easy to obtain or accomplish
3. (figuratively) a musical piece

Descendants

• Macanese: canje

Further reading

• canja on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt
• “canja”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “canja”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025