naja
French, noun/na.ʒa/
naja is a French masculine noun meaning “cobra (venomous snake)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Genre de serpents venimeux de la famille des élapidés, généralement appelés cobras, dont le type est le…”.
What does naja mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecobra (venomous snake)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Genre de serpents venimeux de la famille des élapidés, généralement appelés cobras, dont le type est le serpent à lunettes.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of naja
- najas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce naja?
- /na.ʒa/
- \na.ʒa\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to naja
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is naja in French?
naja appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).