Meaning of е́жа | Babel Free

Definitions

food (any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life)

uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Kradzieć, chto najmytu abo najmytce za płaty nie addajeć i aszukiwajeć ich na jeży i na adzieży.”

It's stealing not to pay wages to hired male or female laborers and to rip them off on food and clothing.

“Pamiž inšym narakali i na toje, što nia majuć ničoha inšaha da jady, aproč manny. „Nia majem chleba — kazali jany — nia chwataje nam wady i ŭžo nam abrydnuła hetaja ježa“ (h. zn. manna).”

Among other things, they complained that they had nothing else to eat except for manna. "We have no bread," they said, "we don't have enough water and we are already sick and tired of this food" (i.e. manna).

“And there was a smell in the air of fish. There was food. The famine was gone.”

There was a smell of fish in the air, so there was food in the settlement. The famine was gone.

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