Finnish–English dictionary

kynnet

A foot equipped with such.

kynnys

A threshold or brink across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.

kynnysarvo

(engineering) The quantitative point at which an action is triggered, especially a lower limit.

kynnyslauta

(construction) The threshold, the raised floorboard in a doorway.

kynnysmatto

A coarse mat at the entrance to a house, upon which one wipes one's shoes.

kynsi

(nautical) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).

kynsiä

To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.

kynsilaukka

A plant, Allium sativum, related to the onion, having a pungent bulb much used in cooking.

kynsinauhantulehdus

An infection near or under the cuticle of a fingernail or toenail.

kyntää

To turn or stir soil in preparation for planting or as a method of weed control between growing crop plants.

kynteli

Any of several Mediterranean herbs, of the genus Satureja, grown as culinary flavourings.

kyntömaa

Land that has been or is meant to be ploughed.

kyntövako

A trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop.

kynttelikkö

A candle holder with branches to hold more than one candle.

kynttilä

A light source consisting of a wick embedded in a solid, flammable substance such as wax, tallow, or paraffin.

kynttiläkauppa

A business, shop or warehouse used in candlemaking.

kynttiläkauppias

A person who makes or sells candles.

kynttilänjalka

A candle holder with branches to hold more than one candle.

kynttiläntekijä

A person who makes or sells candles.

kynttilänteko

The art or trade of candlemaking.

kynttilänvalo

The light emitted by a candle.

kynttilävarasto

A business, shop or warehouse used in candlemaking.

kypärä

A helmet, usually made from rigid plastic, used on construction sites to protect the head from falling objects.

kypäränkoriste

(heraldry) A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually on a helmet above it, sometimes (as for clerics) separately above the shield or separately as a mark for plate, in letterheads, and the like.

kypäräpipo

A type of warm headgear covering the neck, head, and often part of the face, with apertures left as necessary, often made out of wool.

Kypros

An island and country in the Mediterranean Sea, normally considered politically part of Southeast Europe but geographically part of Western Asia. Official name: Republic of Cyprus. Capital: Nicosia.

kypsä

(of food) Ready, fully cooked.

kypsentää

(transitive) To cook.

kypsyä

(medicine, of an abscess) To reach its final stage.

kypsymätön

(figurative) Lacking life experience; immature, inexperienced, naive; also, of or relating to something immature or inexperienced.

kypsymättömyys

Youth; the condition of being immature or not fully grown

kypsyminen

The process of becoming mature.

kypsynyt

Having undergone the improving effects of time; matured.

kypsytellä

(transitive) To mature; to fit or prepare; to bring to perfection

kypsyttää

(transitive) To prepare or alter, especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.

kypsytys

A process of preservation, as by smoking.

kypsyys

The extent to which a food has been cooked.

kypsyysaste

The extent to which a food has been cooked.

kyrvähtää

(intransitive) To be unsuccessful.

kyse

A subject or topic for consideration or investigation.

kyseenalainen

Open to debate; not fully proved or confirmed.

kyseenalaistaa

(transitive) To dispute (something); to contest.

kyseessä oleva

Mentioned earlier; aforesaid.

kyseinen

Currently discussed.

kysellä

(intransitive, US, Canada, Australia) To ask (about something).

kysely

The act of inquiring; a seeking of information by asking questions; interrogation; a question or questioning.

kyselykaavake

A form containing a list of questions; a means of gathering information for a survey.

kyselylomake

A form containing a list of questions; a means of gathering information for a survey.

kyselytutkimus

An examination of the opinions of a group of people.

kyssäkurki

Any of three species of bird in the genus Psophia from South America named for the trumpeting threat call of the males.

kysta

A pouch or sac without opening, usually membranous and containing morbid matter, which develops in one of the natural cavities or in the substance of an organ.

kysyä

(intransitive, cricket) Of a fielding side; to ask an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not, usually by saying "How's that?" or "Howzat?".

kysyä neuvoa

(intransitive) To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer; to advise.

kysyä paperit

(transitive, US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.

kysymys

(rare) A question; an interrogation.

kysymyssana

(grammar) A word (pronoun, pronominal adjective, or adverb) implying interrogation, or used for asking a question: why, who, when, etc.

kysyntä

The desire to purchase goods and services.

kytät

(US, slang, with "the") The police, or any law enforcement agency.

kyteä

(intransitive, of an unwelcome event) To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.

kytkeä

(transitive) To couple.

kytkeä irti

(ambitransitive) To unlink; to take apart or come apart.

kytkeä päälle ja pois

(electronics) To turn power off and back on

kytkeä pois päältä

(chiefly, electronics, computing) To deactivate, to make inoperational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).

kytkeä sähköt

(transitive) To supply with energy, especially electricity; to turn on power to (something).

kytkeä virta

(transitive) To supply with energy, especially electricity; to turn on power to (something).

kytkentä

(countable, uncountable) Connection or attachment.

kytketty

Of a system: connected (generally electrically) to a larger network.

kytkeytyminen

(countable, uncountable) Connection or attachment.

kytkin

A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used to separate the engine and gearbox in a car. [from 19th c.]

kytkinpoljin

The pedal in a car that disengages power and torque transmission from the engine (through the drivetrain) to the drive wheels.

kytkintaulu

A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.

kytkös

The relationship resulting from affiliating one thing with another.

kytky

Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.

kyttä

(usually, in the plural, slang) A police officer.

kyttyrä

(British, slang, with definite article) A bad mood.

kyttyräinen

Having a hump or humps, or, in combination, a hump or humps of the specified number or type.

kyttyräselkä

(derogatory, now, offensive) A person with a humpback; a person who suffers from kyphosis.

kyttyräselkäinen

Having a hump on the back, either naturally or due to a medical condition.

kyttyräselkäisyys

(pathology) An abnormal convex curvature of the spine in the cervical or lumbar regions of the spine.

kyvykäs

Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn.

kyvykkyys

(uncountable) The quality or state of being able; capacity to do or of doing something; having the necessary power. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]

kyvyt

(uncountable) Merit, excellence.

kyvytön

Not in a state to receive; not receptive; not susceptible; not able to admit.

kyvyttömyys

Lack of the ability to do something; incapability.

kyy

A venomous snake in the family Viperidae.

kyyditä

(transitive) To transport (someone) in a motor vehicle.

kyydittää

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

kyyditys

The act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being deported; banishment; transportation.

kyyhky

(countable) A pigeon, especially one smaller in size and white-colored; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae.

kyyhkyläinen

(countable) Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.

kyyhkyläiset

Any small parrot from one of the nine species within the genus Agapornis. Sometimes they are kept as cage birds and are noted for their affection towards each other.

Kyyhkynen

(constellation) A small winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a dove.

kyyhkysenliha

(countable) A thick cushion, especially a flat one covering the seat of a chair or sofa.

kyyhkysenpoikanen

A young dove or pigeon.

kyyhkyslakka

A small house or box, often raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments (pigeonholes), in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house.

kyyhöttäminen

A hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance

kyykäärme

A venomous snake in the family Viperidae.

kyykistyä

To bend one's legs while upright to get to a lower position.

kyykkiä

(intransitive) To crouch or squat close to the ground or lie down

kyykkivä

Sitting on one's heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering or crouching.

kyykky

A bent or stooped position.

kyykyssä oleva

Sitting on one's heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering or crouching.

kyylä

Someone who interferes with others; one who is nosy, intrusive or meddlesome.

kyynärä

The distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger used as an informal unit of length.

kyynärluu

(anatomy) The bone of the forearm that extends from the elbow to the wrist on the side opposite to the thumb, corresponding to the fibula of the hind limb. Also, the corresponding bone in the forelimb of any vertebrate.

kyynärnivel

(anatomy) The joint between the upper arm and the forearm.

kyynärpää

(anatomy) The joint between the upper arm and the forearm.

kyynärvarsi

(anatomy) The part of the arm between the wrist and the elbow.

kyynel

Crying; weeping.

kyynelehtiä

(intransitive) To produce tears.

kyynelehtivä

Tearful, sorrowful, sad, pertaining to tears, weeping, causing tears or crying.

kyyneleinen

Accompanied by tears; crying, or about to cry.

kyyninen

(figurative) Sharp, harsh, biting.

kyynisyys

(countable) A scornfully pessimistic comment or act.

kyyristää

(transitive) To bend something into a hump.

kyyristellä

(intransitive, figurative) To behave in a servile manner; to grovel.

kyyristyä

(intransitive) To bend down; to stoop low; to stand close to the ground with legs bent, like an animal when waiting for prey, or someone in fear.

Kyyros

An ancient king of Persia, Cyrus the Great.

kyyti

On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car. [from ca. 1350—1470]

kyytiin nouseminen

The act of people getting aboard a ship aircraft, train, bus, etc.; embarkation.

l.

(initialism) That is, namely, in other words, that is to say.

la

Abbreviation of Saturday.

laadukas

Recognized for its quality.

laadukkuus

(uncountable) The degree to which a man-made object or system is free from faults and flaws, as opposed to scope of functions or quantity of items.

laadullinen

Of descriptions or distinctions based on some quality rather than on some quantity.

laahata

(chiefly of a vehicle) To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.

laahata peräpäätään

(of an animal) To move with the forelegs while sitting, so that the floor rubs against its rear end.

läähättää

(ambitransitive) To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.

läähättäjä

Someone or something that puffs.

laahia

(transitive) To use a hone to produce a precision bore.

laahintatyökalu

A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.

laahus

Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.

laahustaa

To proceed heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.

laaja

Not contracted or brief; not concise; extended; diffusive

laajakaista

(telecommunications) A wideband of electromagnetic frequencies.

laajakaistayhteys

(Internet) An Internet connection provisioned over an existing service using alternate signal frequencies such as ADSL or a cable modem.

laajakuva

(film) Filmed in a greater aspect ratio than the 1.33:1 or 1.37:1 aspect ratio.

laajalevikkinen

Distributed to a large number of persons.

laajalla

(dated) At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space. [from 1150–1350]

laajalle

(dated) At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space. [from 1150–1350]

laajalle levinnyt

Affecting, or found throughout, a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.

laajalti

Over a great distance or large area; nearly everywhere.

laajasti

In a comprehensive manner; in an all-inclusive or wide-ranging fashion.

laajasydäminen

Noble, kind and generous.

laajeneminen

A deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict.

laajeneva

Growing further apart; diverging.

laajennettava

Having the capacity to be expanded.

laajennettu

Having a large scope or range; extensive.

laajennus

(archaic, countable) An increase by addition; accession

laajentaa

(transitive) To render larger, more extended, or more intense.