"Rojava" meaning in English

See Rojava in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /roʒˈɑvə/ [US], /roʒəˈvɑ/ [US], /roˌʒɑˈvɑ/ [US]
Etymology: From Northern Kurdish rojava (“west”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|kmr|rojava||west}} Northern Kurdish rojava (“west”) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Rojava
  1. Synonym of Syrian Kurdistan Wikidata QID: Q98545242 Synonyms: Syrian Kurdistan [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-Rojava-en-name-en:Q98545242 Categories (other): English links with redundant alt parameters, English links with redundant wikilinks
  2. The Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, a de facto autonomous region in northern and northeastern Syria populated mainly by Arabs and Kurds. Wikidata QID: Q619829 Categories (place): Places in Syria Translations (region in northern and northeastern Syria): Ռոժավա (Ṙožava) (Armenian), ڕۆژاوا (rojawa) (Central Kurdish), 羅賈瓦 /罗贾瓦 (Luójiǎwǎ) (Chinese Mandarin), Rojava [masculine] (French), Rozsava (Hungarian), Rojava [feminine] (Northern Kurdish), Rojavaya Kurdistanê (Northern Kurdish), Rożawa [feminine] (Polish), Urojava class U/U (Swahili), ரோஜாவா (rōjāvā) (Tamil)
    Sense id: en-Rojava-en-name-en:Q619829 Categories (other): Geographic and cultural areas of Syria, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Armenian translations, Terms with Central Kurdish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Northern Kurdish translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Swahili translations, Terms with Tamil translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 88 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 4 96 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 6 94 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 5 95 Disambiguation of Terms with Armenian translations: 29 71 Disambiguation of Terms with Central Kurdish translations: 11 89 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 10 90 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 31 69 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 12 88 Disambiguation of Terms with Northern Kurdish translations: 11 89 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 19 81 Disambiguation of Terms with Swahili translations: 14 86 Disambiguation of Terms with Tamil translations: 22 78 Disambiguation of 'region in northern and northeastern Syria': 8 92
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Rojavan
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "Rojavan"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "kmr",
        "3": "rojava",
        "4": "",
        "5": "west"
      },
      "expansion": "Northern Kurdish rojava (“west”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Northern Kurdish rojava (“west”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Rojava",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of Syrian Kurdistan"
      ],
      "id": "en-Rojava-en-name-en:Q98545242",
      "links": [
        [
          "Syrian Kurdistan",
          "w:Syrian Kurdistan"
        ]
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:Q98545242"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "Syrian Kurdistan"
        }
      ],
      "wikidata": [
        "Q98545242"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Geographic and cultural areas of Syria",
          "orig": "en:Geographic and cultural areas of Syria",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in Syria",
          "orig": "en:Places in Syria",
          "parents": [
            "Places"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "12 88",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "4 96",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "6 94",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "5 95",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "29 71",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Armenian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "11 89",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Central Kurdish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "10 90",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "31 69",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "12 88",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "11 89",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Northern Kurdish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "19 81",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Polish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "14 86",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Swahili translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "22 78",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Tamil translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, a de facto autonomous region in northern and northeastern Syria populated mainly by Arabs and Kurds."
      ],
      "id": "en-Rojava-en-name-en:Q619829",
      "links": [
        [
          "de facto",
          "de facto"
        ],
        [
          "Syria",
          "Syria#English"
        ],
        [
          "Arab",
          "Arab"
        ],
        [
          "Kurd",
          "Kurd"
        ]
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:Q619829"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "8 92",
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "lang_code": "hy",
          "roman": "Ṙožava",
          "sense": "region in northern and northeastern Syria",
          "word": "Ռոժավա"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 92",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "lang_code": "cmn",
          "roman": "Luójiǎwǎ",
          "sense": "region in northern and northeastern Syria",
          "word": "羅賈瓦 /罗贾瓦"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 92",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "lang_code": "fr",
          "sense": "region in northern and northeastern Syria",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Rojava"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 92",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "lang_code": "hu",
          "sense": "region in northern and northeastern Syria",
          "word": "Rozsava"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 92",
          "code": "ckb",
          "lang": "Central Kurdish",
          "lang_code": "ckb",
          "roman": "rojawa",
          "sense": "region in northern and northeastern Syria",
          "word": "ڕۆژاوا"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 92",
          "code": "kmr",
          "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
          "lang_code": "kmr",
          "sense": "region in northern and northeastern Syria",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Rojava"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 92",
          "code": "kmr",
          "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
          "lang_code": "kmr",
          "sense": "region in northern and northeastern Syria",
          "word": "Rojavaya Kurdistanê"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 92",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "lang_code": "pl",
          "sense": "region in northern and northeastern Syria",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Rożawa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 92",
          "code": "sw",
          "lang": "Swahili",
          "lang_code": "sw",
          "sense": "region in northern and northeastern Syria",
          "word": "Urojava class U/U"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "8 92",
          "code": "ta",
          "lang": "Tamil",
          "lang_code": "ta",
          "roman": "rōjāvā",
          "sense": "region in northern and northeastern Syria",
          "word": "ரோஜாவா"
        }
      ],
      "wikidata": [
        "Q619829"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/roʒˈɑvə/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/roʒəˈvɑ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/roˌʒɑˈvɑ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Rojava"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from Northern Kurdish",
    "English terms derived from Northern Kurdish",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Armenian translations",
    "Terms with Central Kurdish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Northern Kurdish translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Swahili translations",
    "Terms with Tamil translations"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "Rojavan"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "kmr",
        "3": "rojava",
        "4": "",
        "5": "west"
      },
      "expansion": "Northern Kurdish rojava (“west”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Northern Kurdish rojava (“west”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Rojava",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English links with redundant alt parameters",
        "English links with redundant wikilinks"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of Syrian Kurdistan"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Syrian Kurdistan",
          "w:Syrian Kurdistan"
        ]
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:Q98545242"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "Syrian Kurdistan"
        }
      ],
      "wikidata": [
        "Q98545242"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Geographic and cultural areas of Syria",
        "en:Places in Syria"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, a de facto autonomous region in northern and northeastern Syria populated mainly by Arabs and Kurds."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "de facto",
          "de facto"
        ],
        [
          "Syria",
          "Syria#English"
        ],
        [
          "Arab",
          "Arab"
        ],
        [
          "Kurd",
          "Kurd"
        ]
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:Q619829"
      ],
      "wikidata": [
        "Q619829"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/roʒˈɑvə/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/roʒəˈvɑ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/roˌʒɑˈvɑ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "lang_code": "hy",
      "roman": "Ṙožava",
      "sense": "region in northern and northeastern Syria",
      "word": "Ռոժավա"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "lang_code": "cmn",
      "roman": "Luójiǎwǎ",
      "sense": "region in northern and northeastern Syria",
      "word": "羅賈瓦 /罗贾瓦"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "region in northern and northeastern Syria",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Rojava"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "lang_code": "hu",
      "sense": "region in northern and northeastern Syria",
      "word": "Rozsava"
    },
    {
      "code": "ckb",
      "lang": "Central Kurdish",
      "lang_code": "ckb",
      "roman": "rojawa",
      "sense": "region in northern and northeastern Syria",
      "word": "ڕۆژاوا"
    },
    {
      "code": "kmr",
      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "lang_code": "kmr",
      "sense": "region in northern and northeastern Syria",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Rojava"
    },
    {
      "code": "kmr",
      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "lang_code": "kmr",
      "sense": "region in northern and northeastern Syria",
      "word": "Rojavaya Kurdistanê"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "region in northern and northeastern Syria",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Rożawa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "lang_code": "sw",
      "sense": "region in northern and northeastern Syria",
      "word": "Urojava class U/U"
    },
    {
      "code": "ta",
      "lang": "Tamil",
      "lang_code": "ta",
      "roman": "rōjāvā",
      "sense": "region in northern and northeastern Syria",
      "word": "ரோஜாவா"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Rojava"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Rojava meaning in English (3.4kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-04-01 using wiktextract (4d423fd and 9452535). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.