Finnish–English dictionary

laajentaminen

(translation studies) A translation technique that involves adding content that is not present in the source text to the target text, usually to improve the fluency of the translation.

laajentua

(intransitive) To become broad or broader.

laajentuminen

An act, process, or instance of expanding.

laajeta

(intransitive, reflexive) To grow; to increase; to become greater.

laajuus

The measure of the size of something, especially its width or breadth; largeness, magnitude.

laakapallo

(baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.

lääkäri

A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees conferred by a college or university.

lääkäri-

Of or pertaining to a physician or physicians.

lääkäriharjoittelija

A medical student or recent graduate working in a hospital as a final part of medical training.

laakasyöttö

(countable, baseball) A fastball.

lääke

(pharmacology) A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.

lääke-

Requiring medical treatment.

laakea

Having no variations in height.

lääkeannos

A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.

lääkehoito-

Of or pertaining to the practice of medicine.

lääkehöyry

The substance (medicament) which is inhaled.

lääkekaappi

A place or room where something is dispensed, particularly:

lääkekasvi

Any plant that can be used for medicinal purposes.

lääkekuuri

A method, device or medication that restores good health.

lääkelaastari

(medicine) An adhesive piece of material, impregnated with a drug, which is worn on the skin, the drug being slowly absorbed over a period of time.

lääkemäinen

Having the properties of medicine, or pertaining to medicine; medical.

lääkepullo

A glass or plastic vessel or bottle, especially a small tube-shaped bottle used to store medicine, perfume or other chemicals.

laakeri

(mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that supports another part or reduces friction.

laakeriseppele

A crown of laurel.

lääkeruisku

Something that produces the jet or current in the previous sense, such as a syringe.

lääketiede

Of or pertaining to the practice of medicine.

lääketiede-

Of or pertaining to the practice of medicine.

lääketieteellinen

Of or pertaining to a physician or physicians.

lääketieteellisesti

In a medical manner or context.

lääkinnällinen

Of or pertaining to the practice of medicine.

lääkintä

The administration of medicine.

lääkitä

(intransitive) To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.

lääkitys

A medicine, or all the medicines regularly taken by a patient.

lääkkeen makuinen

Having the properties of medicine, or pertaining to medicine; medical.

lääkkeet

A medicine, or all the medicines regularly taken by a patient.

laakso

(mainly, Britain, slightly dated outside Yorkshire etc.) A valley, often in an otherwise hilly area.

laama

A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.

lääni

An administrative or geographical region of various countries, including Bhutan, Canada, China, Croatia, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Romania, South Korea, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and 47 of the 50 United States (excluding Alaska, Connecticut, and Louisiana).

lääninherra

A lord in a feudal system, one who bestows fiefs on vassals in exchange for homage, fealty, and obligations of personal services or rent.

läänitys

(law, common law) The property or estate so transferred.

läänitys-

Of, or relating to feudalism.

laannuttaa

(archaic) To cause to subside or abate.

laantua

To decrease in force or intensity; to subside. [from 14th c.]

laantuminen

The process of becoming less active or severe.

laappi

A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.

lääppivä

(informal) Prone to touching other people with one's hands, especially in an inappropriate or sexual manner.

laardi

Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.

laari

A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.

laastari

(Australia, North America, Philippines) An adhesive bandage, a small piece of fabric or plastic that may be stuck to the skin in order to temporarily cover a small wound.

laastaroida

To apply an adhesive bandage.

laasti

(uncountable) A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.

laastilapio

A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.

laatata

(colloquial, ambitransitive) To vomit; to throw up; to eject from the stomach.

laatia

To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.

laatia pöytäkirja

(transitive) Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.

laatia strategia

To formulate a strategy.

laatikko

(especially, UK, Australia, NZ) Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.

laatikko metallikuulia

(theater) A box of metal balls which is shaken to create a thunder sound effect.

laatikollinen

A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.

laatoittaa

(transitive) To pave with flagstones.

laatoittaja

A person who lays anything, such as tiles or a wager.

laatoitus

A pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones, collectively.

laatta

A flat, rectangular piece of rock or stone used for paving or roofing.

laatu

A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.

laatusana

(grammar) A word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes a noun’s referent.

läävä

(by extension) A filthy place.

laavakerros

(geology) An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.

laavakivi

Scoria associated with a volcano.

laavalasi

(mineral) A type of naturally occurring black glass produced by volcanoes.

laavatunnelin aukko

(volcanology) A hole in the upper part of a lava tube, yielding a view of the lava within.

laavu

A shelter with a sloped roof; also a building with a similar construction attached to the side of a building as an extension.

labbis

(colloquial) A Labrador retriever.

labiaali

(linguistics, phonetics) A consonant articulated by the lips.

labiaalinen

(anatomy, zootomy) Of or pertaining to the lips or labia.

laboratorio

A room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis.

laboratoriopullo

(sciences) Laboratory glassware used to hold larger volumes than test tubes, normally having a narrow mouth of a standard size which widens to a flat or spherical base.

labra

A room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis.

Labrador

(chiefly, historical) A geographic region, including the mainland portion of Newfoundland and Labrador and neighbouring regions of what is now the province of Quebec.

labradori

(colloquial) A Labrador retriever.

labradorinnoutaja

The Labrador Sea: An arm of the North Atlantic Ocean between Greenland and Labrador.

labukka

(colloquial) A Labrador retriever.

labyrintti

A structure similar to a maze, but containing only one path with no branches, as distinguished from a maze which contains multiple branching paths

labyrinttikuvioinen

Physically resembling a labyrinth; with the qualities of a maze.

labyrinttimäinen

(figurative) Convoluted, baffling, confusing, perplexing.

lacrosse

(sports) A sport played on a field between two opposing teams using sticks (crosses) and a ball, whereby one team defeats the other by scoring more goals within the allotted time.

ladata

To call to account; to challenge.

ladata uudelleen

(computing, ambitransitive) To reload (a document, especially a webpage) and show any new changes.

ladattu

(of a weapon) Prepared for use; loaded.

ladunaukaisija

One who blazes a trail to guide others; a pathfinder.

lady

A title for someone married to a lord or gentleman.

laeista piittaamaton

Not restrained by the law or by discipline; disorderly, unruly.

lafka

(chiefly, US, _, slang, may be somewhat, _, pejorative) A place of business, particularly in the food service or hospitality industries; sometimes extended to any place that is a focus of human connection or activity (e.g., schools, hangouts, party spots).

lager

A type of beer, brewed using a bottom-fermenting yeast.

lagi

A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (engineering) one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, such as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or steam engine.

Lagos

The largest city and former capital of Nigeria, in Lagos State.

laguuni

A shallow body of water separated from deeper sea by a bar.

lahdata

(transitive, intransitive) To massacre people in large numbers.

lähde

(countable, often with of, typically of adverse results) The source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces or effects a result.

lähdehetekaali

a herbaceous annual plant of species Montia fontana, in the family Montiaceae, formerly included in the purslane family (Portulacaceae).

lähdekalkki

Calcareous lime deposited by precipitation from a body of water, such as a hot spring.

lähdeluettelo

A section of a written work containing citations, not quotations, to all the books referred to in the work.

lähdesana

(linguistics, philology) The original or earlier form of an inherited or borrowed word, affix, or morpheme either from an earlier period in a language's development, from an ancestral language, or from a foreign language.

lähdettäminen

The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly:

lähdeviittaus

(academic writing) A short written identification of a previously published work which is used as a source for a text.

läheinen

Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.

läheinen ystävä

A very close friend.

läheisesti

In a close manner.

läheisyydessä

Within or in the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place. [from ca. 1350–1470]

läheisyys

The state of being friends

lähellä

Near; in the vicinity. [from ca. 1350–1470]

lähellä oleva

Physically close.

lähelle

So as to surround or be near.

läheneminen

The act of moving toward union or uniformity.

lähennellä

(transitive, informal) To make a romantic or sexual advance to.

lähennys

The act of adducing or bringing forward.

lähentää

(transitive) To carry or advance near; to cause to approach.

lähentäjälihas

(anatomy) A muscle which draws a limb or part of the body toward the middle line of the body, or closes extended parts of the body—opposed to abductor.

lähentyä

(transitive) To come near to; to approach.

lähentyminen

(biology, medicine) A stage of wound healing during which the wound edges are gradually pulled together.

lähes

Very nearly; everything short of. Most often precedes a verb or adjective.

lähes tuhota

(proscribed) To reduce to one-tenth: to destroy or remove nine-tenths of (something).

lähestyä

(archaic, intransitive) To approach; to arrive, to come forward. [15th–19th c.]

lähestyminen

(chiefly, in plural, now, archaic) A polite approach made to another person, especially of a romantic nature; an amorous advance. [from 16th c.]

lähestymistapa

(figuratively) A manner of making (a policy) or solving (a problem, etc.).

lähestyttävä

(of a person) Easy to get along with.

lähestyvä

(not comparable) Approaching or about to take place.

lähete

The act or process of transferring someone or something to another, of sending by reference, or referring.

lähetekeskustelu

(politics, law) One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law.

lähetin

A piece of equipment used to transmit audio and/or video content, or messages, to be received by radios or televisions, over the internet, etc.

lähettää

(intransitive) To be broadcast.

lähettää edelleen

(transitive) To send (a letter, email etc.) on to a third party.

lähettää eteenpäin

(transitive) To send (a letter, email etc.) on to a third party.

lähettää jonoon

(computing) To send files to a device or a program (a spooler or a daemon that puts them in a queue for processing at a later time).

lähettää kuriirilla

(transitive) To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch.

lähettää kuriiripostissa

(transitive) To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch.

lähettää matkoihinsa

(transitive) To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.

lähettää podcastia

(transitive) To deliver (information) in the form of a program, especially an audio program, over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones. [from early 21st c.]

lähettää podcastina

(transitive) To deliver (information) in the form of a program, especially an audio program, over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones. [from early 21st c.]

lähettää sähköposti

(transitive) To send an email or emails to.

lähettää sähköpostia

(intransitive) To send, or compose and then send, one or more emails.

lähettää sähköpostilla

(transitive, ditransitive) To send (data) through email.

lähettää taistelukentälle

(transitive, sports) To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game.

lähettää takaisin

(transitive) To send back.

lähettää tekstiviesti

To send a message on a cell phone via short message service.

lähettää uudelleen

(transitive) To send again.

lähettäjä

A person whose job it is to effect such broadcasts; specifically, one who presents radio or television programmes (especially documentaries or news programmes); a presenter.

lähettäminen

The act of sending a legislative bill to committee for review.

lähetti

(chess) The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.

lähettiläs

An official messenger and representative.

lähettiyritys

A company that delivers messages.