Finnish–English dictionary

Malediivit

An archipelago and country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean off the coast of India. Official name: Republic of Maldives. Capital: Malé.

maleksia

(dated, informal) To be unyielding; to hold out.

Malesia

A country in Southeast Asia. Capital: Kuala Lumpur.

malesialainen

Of or relating to the Malays, a people living in Brunei, on the eastern coast of Sumatra, the islands of Bangka and Belitung, the Riau archipelago and the coastal areas of Kalimantan in Indonesia, in most of Malaysia (states where they are politically dominant), in Singapore and in the southernmost provinces of Thailand.

Mali

A country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Mali.

Malja

(constellation) A dim spring constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a cup. It lies between the constellations Virgo and Hydra.

maljakko

An upright open container used mainly for displaying fresh, dried, or artificial flowers.

maljakotilo

Any of various gastropods with a conical shell shape patelliform and a strong, muscular foot that they use to create strong suction to cling onto rocks or other hard surfaces.

maljapuhe

A drinking toast.

mallas

Malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise.

mallasjuoma

(uncountable) An alcoholic drink fermented from starch material, commonly barley malt; often with hops or some other substance (like gruit) to impart a bitter flavor.

mallassokeri

Maltose-rich sugar derived from malted grain.

mallastaa

(transitive) To convert a cereal grain into malt by causing it to sprout (by soaking in water) and then halting germination (by drying with hot air) in order to develop enzymes that can break down starches and proteins in the grain.

mallastettu pirtelö

(US, informal) A milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor.

mallasviski

Malt liquor, especially malt whisky.

malletti

(musical instruments) A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes.

mälli

(countable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw.

malli-

Of such high quality that it should serve as an example to be imitated; ideal, perfect.

malliesimerkki

(literature) A character, object, or story that is based on a known character, object, or story.

mallikappale

A scale or full-size model of a design or device which is not fully functional, used for teaching, demonstration, design evaluation, promotion, or other purposes.

mallin työ

The profession of someone who models clothes.

malline

A thin sheet, either perforated or using some other technique, with which a pattern may be produced upon a surface; a utensil that contains a perforated sheet.

mallinnus

The art of sculpting models from clay etc. to create a representation of something.

mallintaa

(intransitive) To make a model or models.

mallinukke

Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.

mallipohja

(computing) A file or document serving as a basis for others.

malmi

Rock or other material that contains valuable or utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems for which it is typically mined and processed.

malminetsijä

A person who explores or prospects an area in search of mineral deposits, such as gold.

malmisuoni

A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral.

malpositio

A miserable, dysfunctional state or society that has a very poor standard of living or severe censorship, oppression, etc.

malta

Of or pertaining to Malta or its language.

maltalainen

Of or pertaining to Malta or its language.

maltalaiset

(mostly, in the plural, plural "Maltese") An inhabitant or a resident of Malta.

maltankielinen

Of or pertaining to Malta or its language.

maltankoira

(plural "Malteses") A small breed of dog with a long silky coat.

maltillinen

Not showing, and not affected by, emotion, bias, or prejudice.

maltillisesti

In a moderate manner.

maltillisuus

The state or quality of being moderate; avoidance of extremes

malto

The soft, often edible, parts of fruits or vegetables.

malttamattomuus

The quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something.

maltti

Calmness of mind or temperament.

malvanväri

A pale purple or violet colour, like the colour of the dye after it has faded.

malvanvärinen

Having a pale purple colour.

mamba

Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Dendroaspis, native to Africa, that live in trees.

mambo

A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre. [from 20th c.]

mamma

(Commonwealth, Ireland, informal) Mother.

mammanpoika

(informal, idiomatic, derogatory, North America) A male who has a very close bond with his mother, and may consequently be perceived as soft or effeminate.

mämmikoura

Someone who tends to drop things; (more generally) someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated; a klutz.

mammografiakuva

(medicine) An X-ray picture of the breasts (mammaries), used to screen for breast cancer.

mammona

(figuratively, by extension) Money as an end in itself; Mammon.

mammutti

(figurative) Anything huge and ponderous.

mammuttimainen

Especially large or powerful.

mana

The personification of death, often a skeleton with a scythe, and one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

manaaja

A person, especially a priest or priestess, who is a masterful practitioner in purification and exorcism to force out evil spirits and/or demons from a living being.

manaatti

Any of several plant-eating marine mammals, of the genus Trichechus, found in tropical regions.

manageri

(music) An administrator, for a singer or group.

manala

(religion, or, mythology) The world of the dead, located underneath the world of the living; the afterlife.

manata

(transitive) To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous.

manata esiin

(fantasy, transitive) To call a resource by magic.

manaus

The ritual act of driving out evil spirits from persons, places or things that are possessed by them.

mandaatti

An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization.

mandariini

(historical) A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire. [from 1580s]

mandariinikiina

Standard Mandarin, an official language of China and Taiwan, and one of four official languages in Singapore; Putonghua, Guoyu or Huayu.

mandingo

A macrolanguage spoken primarily in West Africa, with seven individual languages: Mandinka, Eastern Maninkakan, Forest Maninka, Kita Maninkakan, Konyanka Maninka, Sankaran Maninka, Western Maninkakan.

mandrilli

A primate, Mandrillus sphinx, with a colorful face and rump.

maneeri

An unusual mannerism.

maneerinen

(often, in combination) Having manners or (often excessive) mannerisms.

mangaani

(uncountable) A metallic chemical element (symbol Mn) with an atomic number of 25, not a free element in nature but often found in minerals in combination with iron, and useful in industrial alloy production.

mango

A tropical Asian fruit tree, Mangifera indica.

mangoldi

(uncountable, culinary) An edible leafy vegetable, Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla, with a slightly bitter taste.

mangopuu

A tropical Asian fruit tree, Mangifera indica.

mangrove

(ecology) A tropical and subtropical coastal intertidal swampland ecosystem characterized by mangroves or similar shrubs and trees.

mangrovekasvi

Any of various tropical and subtropical evergreen shrubs or trees chiefly of the Rhizophoraceae family that have aerial roots and grow in clumps in brackish intertidal coastal areas; (specifically) any of various trees of the genus Rhizophora, especially the red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle). [from early 17th c.]

mangrovemetsä

(ecology) A tropical and subtropical coastal intertidal swampland ecosystem characterized by mangroves or similar shrubs and trees.

mangrovepuu

Any of various tropical and subtropical evergreen shrubs or trees chiefly of the Rhizophoraceae family that have aerial roots and grow in clumps in brackish intertidal coastal areas; (specifically) any of various trees of the genus Rhizophora, especially the red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle). [from early 17th c.]

mangrovepuukasvi

Any of various tropical and subtropical evergreen shrubs or trees chiefly of the Rhizophoraceae family that have aerial roots and grow in clumps in brackish intertidal coastal areas; (specifically) any of various trees of the genus Rhizophora, especially the red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle). [from early 17th c.]

mangrovepuumetsä

A forest of such shrubs or trees.

mangrovesuo

(ecology) A tropical and subtropical coastal intertidal swampland ecosystem characterized by mangroves or similar shrubs and trees.

mangusti

(zoology) Any member of the family Herpestidae of mongooses.

manhattan

A cocktail made from whiskey, sweet vermouth and bitters.

Máni

A peninsula on the Peloponnese in Greece.

mania

compulsion or obsession.

manierismi

(arts) A style of art developed at the end of the High Renaissance, characterized by the deliberate distortion and exaggeration of perspective and especially the elongation of figures.

manifesti

(obsolete) A public declaration; an open statement; a manifesto.

manikki

Any of several passerine bird species of the genera Lonchura, Heteromunia, Spermestes, Lepidopygia, and Mayrimunia, of the Old World.

manikyristi

A person who performs manicures.

manikyyri

A cosmetic treatment for the fingernails.

Manila

The capital city of the Philippines; the regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon.

manilahamppu

The fibre of the abaca.

manilanveripihkapuu

(India) Indian laurel, asna (Terminalia elliptica, syn. Terminalia tomentosa), Terminalia alata, of south and southeastern Asia.

manipuloida

(transitive) To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty, deliberately but not necessarily dishonestly or immorally.

manipuloiva

(pejorative) Reaching one's goals at the expense of other people by using them.

Manitoba

A province in western Canada. Capital and largest city: Winnipeg.

mankeli

(informal) A credit card imprinter.

mankeloida

(transitive, archaic) To wring laundry.

mankua

(transitive) To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice. [from 19th c.]

mankuminen

(uncountable) Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.

mannekiini

(dated) A person who models clothes.

manner

Each of the traditional main regions into which the Earth’s land surface is divided, including both an extent of mainland and various conventionally associated islands, etc; namely, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australasia/Oceania, North America, South America, and Antarctica.

mannertenvälinen

Taking place between two or more continents.

männynkäpy

A seed-bearing conical fruit of a pine tree.

manööveri

(military) The planned movement of troops, vehicles etc.; a strategic repositioning; (later also) a large training field-exercise of fighting units. [from 18th c.]

manöveroida

(ambitransitive) To move (something, or oneself) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position.

mansikanpunainen

Of a color similar to the color of strawberry-flavoured products.

mansikka

Containing or having the flavor of strawberries.

mansikka-

Containing or having the flavor of strawberries.

mansikkainen

(mostly, oenology) strawberrylike

mäntä

(mechanics) A solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder, and moves under pressure (as in an engine) or displaces fluid (as in a pump)

manteli

Other plants that produce almond-like nuts:

mantelinvalkoinen

Brownish, resembling the colour of an almond nut.

mantelinvärinen

Brownish, resembling the colour of an almond nut.

mantelipistaasi

The nutlike fruit of this tree.

mantelipuu

(countable) The tree that produces almonds.

mantelitumake

(neuroanatomy) Each one of the two regions of the brain, located as a pair in the medial temporal lobe, believed to play a key role in processing emotions, such as fear and pleasure, in both animals and humans.

mantereen ylittävä

Crossing or spanning a continent.

manticora

(Greek mythology) A beast with the body of a lion (usually red), the tail of a scorpion, and the head/face of a man with a mouth filled with multiple rows of sharp teeth (like a shark), said to be able to shoot spikes from its tail or mane to paralyse prey. It may be horned, winged, or both; its voice is described as a mixture of pipes and trumpets.

mantikori

(Greek mythology) A beast with the body of a lion (usually red), the tail of a scorpion, and the head/face of a man with a mouth filled with multiple rows of sharp teeth (like a shark), said to be able to shoot spikes from its tail or mane to paralyse prey. It may be horned, winged, or both; its voice is described as a mixture of pipes and trumpets.

mantšu

A person belonging to or descended from the indigenous people of Manchuria.

mantšun tutkimus

The study of the Manchu language.

Mantšuria

A historical region of northeastern China comprising the three provinces of Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang and the northeastern part of Inner Mongolia.

mantšurialainen

Pertaining to Manchuria.

manttelinperijä

A person expected to inherit or take over an enterprise or undertaking once its current manager retires or dies.

mäntti

(pejorative) An unintentionally ridiculous person.

mänty

(uncountable) The wood of a pine.

mäntymetsä

(countable) A forest or grove of pine trees, either natural or as a plantation.

Manu

A en given name of Biblical origin.

manuaali

(music) A keyboard for the hands on a harpsichord, organ, or other musical instrument.

manuaalinen

(of an activity) Performed with the hands.

manuaalinen vaihteisto

(metonymically) A vehicle with a manual transmission.

manuaalivaihteisto

(metonymically) A vehicle with a manual transmission.

manumissio

Release from slavery or other legally sanctioned servitude; the giving of freedom; the act of manumitting.

Mao

A common surname from Chinese, from Mandarin, usually referring to Mao Zedong.

maolainen

of, related to, or advocating Maoism

maori

Of, from, or pertaining to the Maori.

maorin kieli

A member of the indigenous people of New Zealand.

maorit

A member of the indigenous people of New Zealand.

mappi

A cover or holder for unbound papers, pages, etc.

mara

Any caviid rodent of the genus Dolichotis, common in the Patagonian steppes of Argentina.

marakatti

A member of the genus Cercopithecus of Old World monkeys, of sub-Saharan Africa, principally forests.

märehdintä

The act of ruminating; i.e. chewing cud.

märehtiä

(figuratively, idiomatic, of a person) To meditate or ponder before answering; to be deep in thought; to ruminate.

märehtiminen

The act of ruminating; i.e. chewing cud.

marenki

A mixture consisting of beaten egg whites and sugar which is added to the tops of pies then browned.

marenkikuppi

A shell made of this mixture which serves as the receptacle for fruit, ice cream or sherbet.

marenkipohja

A shell made of this mixture which serves as the receptacle for fruit, ice cream or sherbet.

margariini

A spread, manufactured from a blend of vegetable oils (some of which are hydrogenated), emulsifiers etc, mostly used as a substitute for butter.

margariitti

(mineral) A calcium-rich member of the mica group of phyllosilicates, forming white to pinkish or yellowish-gray masses or thin laminae.

marginaali

(philately) An unprinted space between rows of stamps.

marginaali-

Outside the mainstream.

marginaalinen

(uncomparable) Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).