Finnish–English dictionary

kurkumiini

(organic compound, biochemistry) A polyphenol (1E,6E)-1,7-bis(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)hepta-1,6-diene-3,5-dione; a major constituent of the spice turmeric.

kurkun muotoinen

Shaped like a cucumber; having the form of a cylinder tapered and rounded at the ends, and possibly curved.

kurkunpää

(anatomy, relational) Of or pertaining to the larynx.

kurkunpään tulehdus

An inflammation of the larynx, typically resulting in hoarseness.

kurlata

(intransitive, curling) To take part in the sport of curling.

kurlaus

(countable) The sound or act of gargling.

kurlausneste

A liquid used for gargling.

kurluttaa

(intransitive) To make a sound like the one made while gargling.

kurmitsa

A small brown-and-black bird of species Charadrius morinellus, of the plover family. [from 15th c.]

kurnata

(intransitive) To make a low, growling or rumbling noise, like a hungry stomach or certain animals.

kurnaus

The sound made by a hungry stomach.

kurnia

(intransitive) To make a low, growling or rumbling noise, like a hungry stomach or certain animals.

kurninta

The sound made by a hungry stomach.

kurnuttaa

(intransitive, of a frog, toad, raven, or various other birds or animals) To make its vocal sound.

kuroa

(physical) To remove or block an opening, gap or passage through.

kurottaa

(transitive, by extension) To extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.

kurouma

A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.

kuroutua

(intransitive) To reproduce by splitting off buds.

kuroutuma

A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.

kurpitsa

Any of the trailing or climbing vines producing fruit with a hard rind or shell, from the genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita (in Cucurbitaceae).

kurppa

(derogatory) An ugly woman.

kursailematon

Explicit, vivid, descriptive, often in relation to depictions of sex or violence.

kursailu

(uncountable) A formal socially established behaviour, often in relation to people of different ranks; formality.

kursia

To sew/stitch with a tack (loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth).

kursia kasaan

(transitive) To assemble in an improvised way.

kursiivi

(countable) A cursive character, letter or font.

Kursk

A city in Kursk Oblast, the administrative centre of Kursky Raion and Kursk Oblast, Central Federal District, Russia, first mentioned in 1032, scene in 1943 of the largest battle in human history.

kursori

(computing) An indicator, often a blinking line or bar, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place.

kursorinen

Hasty or superficial.

kurssi

A series of lessons covering a single subject.

kurssikirja

A textbook, a book designed to accompany a specific academic course, or one specified by the writers of the course to be read by its students.

kurtisaani

(literary) A prostitute.

kurtistaa

(ambitransitive) To pinch or wrinkle (especially a body part); to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold.

kurtistaa kulmiaan

(intransitive) To have a frown on one's face.

kurtistua

(intransitive) To become wrinkled.

kurtistus

The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowning; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown.

kurttu

A fold or wrinkle.

kurttuinen

Wizened; withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.

kuru

a narrow mountain or mesa pass

kurvi

A gentle bend, such as in a road.

kurvikas

(of a, woman) Having shapely and voluptuous curves; curvy.

kurvit

A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject.

kuseminen

(vulgar) An act of urination.

kusessa

(slang, mildly, _, vulgar) Beset with unfortunate circumstances that seem difficult or impossible to overcome; in imminent danger.

kusettaa

(archaic) To make a fool of; to make act the fool.

kusettaja

A person who performs any such trick.

kusipää

(originally, North America, slang, pejorative) A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, self-centered, or disagreeable.

kuskata

(transitive) To convey (a person, etc.) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.

kuski

A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car, truck, bus, train, forklift, etc.

kuskinpukki

The driver’s seat on a horse-drawn coach.

kuskus

A pasta of North African origin made of crushed and steamed semolina.

kuspi

(dentistry) Any of the pointed parts of a canine tooth or molar.

kusta

(idiomatic) To fail in one's responsibilities or duties, or to make a mistake, especially at a critical point or when the result is very negative.

Kustaa

A en given name.

kustannukset

The spending of money, or an expenditure.

kustannus

Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.

kustannusarvio

The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or timeframe.

kustannuslaskija

One who assesses a project for cost evaluation.

kustannustehokas

Returning a benefit that justifies the initial investment; economical.

kustantaa

To pay or discharge (a debt, expense etc.); to meet (the cost of something).

kustantaja

A person or (especially) a company who publishes, especially books.

kustodi

(printing, historical) A word under the right-hand side of the last line on a book page that repeats the first word on the following page.

kustomoida

To build or alter according to personal preferences or specifications.

kutale

(figuratively) A person of weak character, lacking in courage and/or moral strength.

kuten

Considered to be, in relation to something else; in the relation (specified).

kuten Allah haluaa

(Islam, ) Expressing the speaker's gratitude for a blessing or their recognition of divine intervention in its occurrence. God willed it.

kuti

(informal) An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc.

kutiaa

(intransitive, of a body part) To feel as if the body part in question is being tickled.

kutiava

Sensitive or susceptible to being tickled.

kutina

A sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch said area.

kutista

(intransitive, stative) To feel itchy; to feel a need to be scratched.

kutistaa

(transitive) To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink

kutistua

(transitive) To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny; to be much larger than.

kutittaa

(transitive) To touch repeatedly or stroke delicately in a manner which typically causes laughter, pleasure and twitching.

kutitus

The act of tickling.

kutkuttaa

(intransitive, stative) To feel itchy; to feel a need to be scratched.

kutoa

To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, etc.) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.

kutoa brokadia

To decorate fabric with raised woven patterns.

kutoa yhteen

(transitive) To combine (things) through weaving.

kutoja

A person who weaves; especially, one who weaves cloth for a living.

kutominen

(uncountable) The process of making woven material on a loom.

kutsu

A beckoning or summoning.

kutsua

(transitive) To invite; to summon.

kutsua asepalvelukseen

To draft into military service.

kutsua kokoon

(intransitive) To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like (especially of a military force); to come together as parts of a force or body. [from 15th c.]

kutsua koolle

(intransitive) To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like (especially of a military force); to come together as parts of a force or body. [from 15th c.]

kutsua kullaksi

(transitive, informal) To call (someone) "darling" (noun sense 1).

kutsua palvelukseen

(transitive, idiomatic) To order into service; to summon into service.

kutsua sukunimellä

(transitive) To call by a surname.

kutsua takaisin

(transitive, archaic) To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.

kutsumanimi

(formal, _, or, _, dated) A name or title by which someone is addressed or identified; a designation.

kutsuminen

The act of calling out or forth, or evoking.

kutsumuksellinen

Of or pertaining to calling; used in calling or vocation.

kutsumus

(archaic) Vocation; employment; calling.

kutsunnat

The act of levying.

kutsuntapaikka

(military) A place where recruits are assembled before being sent to active units.

kutteri

(nautical) A single-masted, fore-and-aft rigged, sailing vessel with at least two headsails, and a mast set further aft than that of a sloop.

kutu

The numerous eggs of an aquatic organism.

Kuu

The Earth's moon; the sole natural satellite of the Earth, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☾.

kuu-

(astronomy) Of or pertaining to travel through space between the Earth and the Moon, or exploration and scientific investigation of the Moon.

Kuuba

A country, the largest island (based on land area) in the Caribbean. Capital and largest city: Havana.

kuubalainen

Of, from, or pertaining to Cuba, the Cuban people or the Cuban dialect.

kuuden blokki

(backgammon) A series of consecutive blocks. A prime of six prevents the opponent's pieces from passing.

kuudennes

One of six equal parts of a whole.

kuudes

The ordinal form of the number six.

kuudesosa

One of six equal parts (1/6, ⅙, 0.1666…).

kuudestoista

The ordinal form of the number sixteen.

kuudestoistaosa

One of sixteen equal parts of a whole.

kuuhullu

An insane person.

kuukahtaa

(intransitive) To collapse in exhaustion or injury; also, to fall dead, or to fall in death.

kuukausi

A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon.

kuukausijulkaisu

A publication that is published once a month.

kuukausipalkka

Money given in return for work; salary or wages.

kuukausipalkkainen

Paid monthly as opposed to weekly.

kuukausittain

Every month.

kuukausittainen

Every month.

kuukautiset

The discharge of blood mixed with pieces of cellular tissue from the uterus out through the vagina, which occurs roughly every month in uninseminated women; menstrual flow.

kuukautiskierto

The recurring cycle of physiological changes in the uninseminated females of some animal species that is associated with reproductive fertility; especially the cycle in a human.

kuukivi

(mineral) A translucent gemstone, an orthoclase feldspar, that has a pearly lustre.

kuukkeloida

To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.

kuula

(mathematics) The set of points in a metric space of any number of dimensions lying within a given distance (the radius) of a given point.

kuulapää

The (often spherical) end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end.

kuulas

Without clouds.

kuule

(archaic, often, imperative) To listen attentively.

kuulemiin

Farewell; a formula used to another person or persons when the speaker, writer, or person addressed is departing.

kuuleminen

(countable, legal) A legal procedure done before a judge, without a jury, as with an evidentiary hearing.

kuulemma

According to reports or rumors. [from 19th c.]

kuuleva

Able to hear, as opposed to deaf.

kuuliainen

Willing to comply with the commands, orders, or instructions of those in authority; biddable.

kuuliaisesti

In an obedient manner.

kuuliaisuus

Loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler.

kuulias

Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.

kuulijakunta

(obsolete) An audience; a hearing.

kuulla

To become aware of (a subject, person) through second-hand knowledge, or not through personal experience.

kuulla sattumalta

(ambitransitive) To hear something that was not meant for one's ears.

kuulla vahingossa

(ambitransitive) To hear something that was not meant for one's ears.

kuullottaa

(transitive, intransitive, cooking) To cook slowly at low heat, in shallow oil and without browning, to reduce moisture content.

kuullottua

(transitive, intransitive, cooking) To cook slowly at low heat, in shallow oil and without browning, to reduce moisture content.

kuullun toistaminen

The situation where a person repeats speech immediately as they hear it (usually through earphones).

kuullun ymmärtäminen

Skill or ability of perceiving spoken language.

kuulo

An act of hearing; being heard.

kuuloaisti

An act of hearing; being heard.

kuuloetäisyys

A distance from which sound is still audible.

kuuloke

A transducer that converts electric signals into sound and is held near the ear, especially as part of a telephone; an earpiece or headphone.

kuulokemikrofoni

A pair of headphones or earphones, or a singular headphone or earphone, typically with an attached microphone.

kuulokkeet

A pair of small loudspeakers worn inside each outer ear or covering all or part of the ear, without a connecting band worn over head.

kuulomatka

A distance from which sound is still audible.

kuulopuhe

Information that was heard by one person about another that cannot be adequately substantiated.

kuulostaa

(intransitive, figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.

kuulovammainen

Unable (or partially able) to hear.