aji

noun

1. (uncountable)A spicy Peruvian sauce, often containing tomatoes, cilantro, hot peppers, and onions.

   “In Peru the consumption of aji is greater than that of salt[…]”

2. (countable)A chili pepper, in the context of South American cuisine.

   “Add the onion, the garlic, the red pepper, the ajies, the pepper, cumin and salt.”

3. A horse mackerel, especially the Japanese horse mackerel, Trachurus japonicus

   “Although aji are found in temperate waters around the world, if you have the fish in a sushi-ya here, it almost certainly was caught and frozen in Japan.”

4. (uncountable)The ‘flavour’ of a position, i.e. the extent to which it has lingering possibilities such as bad aji which may not be exploitable when they first arise yet still influence further play; good aji generally means there are few weaknesses.
5. (uncountable)Bad aji.