Finnish–English dictionary

pälätys

Silly, childish talk; babble.

Palau

A country consisting of around 340 islands in Micronesia, in Oceania. Official name: Republic of Palau. Capital: Ngerulmud.

palaute

Critical assessment of a process or activity or of their results.

palautettu

(music) Neither sharp nor flat. Denoted ♮. [from 18th c.]

palauttaa

(archaic) To recede; to retreat.

palauttaa alkutilaan

To set back to the initial state.

palauttaa kunnia

(transitive) To restore the honour, worth, or reputation of oneself or something.

palauttaa mieleensä

To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.

palauttaa virkaan

(transitive) To restore to a former position or rank.

palauttaminen

A refusal to receive freight so damaged in transit as to be worthless and render carrier liable for its value.

palauttaminen valtaan

The return of a former monarchy or monarch to power, usually after having been forced to step down.

palautua

(informal, intransitive) To recover from something tiresome.

palautuminen

A return to former status or position.

palautus

A refusal to receive freight so damaged in transit as to be worthless and render carrier liable for its value.

palautus kotimaahan

The process of returning of a person to their country of origin or citizenship.

palautusmerkki

(music) The symbol ♮ used to indicate such a natural note.

palautusnäppäin

The "Enter" key on a computer keyboard.

palautustieto

(computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.

palautuvuus

(by extension) Resilience or cheerfulness.

palava

Burning fiercely; in a blaze; on fire. [18th century.]

palava halu

An ardent desire, especially sexual desire; lust.

palaveri

A meeting at which there is much talk; a debate; a moot.

palavuus

The quality or state of being combustible

paleleva

Becoming cold.

palelluttaa

To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.

paleltua

To be exposed to harsh (especially cold) weather.

paleltuma

An injury suffered as a result of freezing of some part of the body, typically fingers, toes or the nose.

paleltuminen

An injury suffered as a result of freezing of some part of the body, typically fingers, toes or the nose.

palelu

A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.

paleo-

Old; ancient or primitive.

palestiinalainen

Of, from, or pertaining to Palestine or the Palestinian people.

paletti

(painting) A thin board on which a painter lays and mixes colours.

palettiveitsi

In painting, a small, edge-less, more or less flexible steel blade used to mix paint on a palette and sometimes to apply paint to a surface.

palho

(botany) The stalk of a flower stamen, supporting the anther.

palikka

(cricket) One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.

palindromi

A word, phrase, number or any other sequence of units which has the property of reading the same forwards as it does backwards, character for character, sometimes disregarding punctuation, capitalization and diacritics.

palisadi

(military) A wall of wooden stakes, used as a defensive barrier.

paljaalla

(slang) Without a condom.

paljain jaloin

Wearing nothing on the feet.

paljas

Having no decoration.

paljas pinta

(slang) Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.

paljasjalkainen

Wearing nothing on the feet.

paljaspeppuinen

Not wearing clothes below the waist; particularly not wearing clothes that would cover the genitalia.

paljaspyllyinen

Not wearing clothes below the waist; particularly not wearing clothes that would cover the genitalia.

paljastaa

(transitive, sometimes, figurative) To uncover; to reveal.

paljastaa (kasvonsa)

(intransitive) To remove one's mask.

paljastaja

One who exposes.

paljastaminen

(legal) The making known of a previously hidden fact or series of facts to another party; the act of disclosing.

paljastava

(of clothing) With holes, slits or transparent fabric to reveal what is normally hidden.

paljastava asia

An indicator that makes something obvious or apparent.

paljastava tekijä

An indicator that makes something obvious or apparent.

paljastua

(intransitive, figurative) To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.

paljastuma

A coming out of bedrock or of an unconsolidated deposit to the surface of the ground.

paljastus

A previously untold secret account of an incident.

paljolti

For the most part; mainly or chiefly.

paljon

(informal) Very much; a great deal; to a large extent.

paljonpuhuva

Revealing information; bearing significance.

paljous

(obsolete) An abundance or plenty of anything.

palkankorotus

(UK, Ireland, Australia, rest of Commonwealth, sometimes, Canada) An increase in salary or wages.

palkanlaskenta

(accounting) The calculation of salaries and wages and the deduction of taxes etc.; the department in a company responsible for this.

palkansaajat

(Marxism) Wage earners collectively; people who own no capital and depend on their labour for survival; the working class, especially when seen as engaged in a class struggle with the bourgeoisie.

palkata

(rare) To provide (someone) with a new job; to hire.

palkata miehistö

To be a member of a work or production crew

palkaton

Of work: done without agreed payment, usually voluntarily.

palkattu pahoinpitelijä

A hired thug.

palkattu yleisö

(collective) A group of people hired to attend a performance and to either applaud or boo.

palkeenkieli

A flap, a tear in a clothing

palkinnon saaja

(dated) One crowned with laurel, such as a poet laureate or Nobel laureate.

palkinto

A special acknowledgment; an award.

palkintokoroke

(sports, and, other competitions) A steepled platform upon which the three competitors with the best results may stand when being handed their medals or prize.

palkintopalli

(sports, and, other competitions) A steepled platform upon which the three competitors with the best results may stand when being handed their medals or prize.

palkintopokaali

An object, usually in the form of a statuette, cup, or shield, awarded for success in a competition or to mark a special achievement.

palkintosija

(sports, and, other competitions) A steepled platform upon which the three competitors with the best results may stand when being handed their medals or prize.

palkita

(intransitive) To determine; to make or grant an award.

palkittaa

(ambitransitive) To emit beams of light; to shine; to radiate.

palkka

The act or principle of compensating.

palkkakulut

The total sum of money paid to employees.

palkkalista

A list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each.

palkkamurhaaja

A male contract killer, especially one paid by a mafia.

palkkapäivä

The day of the week or month, or the specific day, on which an employee's wages or salary is paid.

palkkarenki

(pejorative) Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else.

palkkasotilas

A person employed to fight in an armed conflict who is not a member of the state or military group for which they are fighting and whose primary motivation is private gain.

palkkasoturi

(historical) A mercenary soldier; a freebooter; specifically, a mercenary who travelled illegally in an organized group from the United States to a country in Central America or the Spanish West Indies in the mid-19th century seeking economic and political benefits through armed force.

palkkasulku

(business, finance) A block on pay rises or on the hiring of new employees etc.

palkkasumma

The total sum of money paid to employees.

palkkatoimisto

(accounting) The calculation of salaries and wages and the deduction of taxes etc.; the department in a company responsible for this.

palkkautua

(intransitive) To accept employment.

palkki

Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".

palkkio

(countable) A reward for some specific act, especially one given by an authority or a government.

palkkioennakko

In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.

palko

The edible seedpod of such a plant.

palkokasvi

(uncountable) Annual leguminous plants (such as beans, lentils, and peas) yielding grains or seeds used as food for humans or animals; (countable) such a plant; a legume.

palladium

A chemical element (symbol Pd) with an atomic number of 46: a rare, lustrous silvery-white metal.

Pallas

An epithet for Athena, always used together with the name, as Pallas Athena, rather than alone.

palle

(nautical) The rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides.

pallea

(anatomy) In mammals, a sheet of muscle separating the thorax from the abdomen, contracted and relaxed in respiration to draw air into and expel air from the lungs.

pallekulma

(nautical) A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.

pallepähkylä

The winged indehiscent fruit of trees such as the ash, elm or maple.

pallero

A round mass of something, especially of chewed food in the mouth or alimentary canal.

palli

(vulgar, slang, chiefly plural) A testicle, often used in the plural form.

palliatiivinen

(medicine) Minimising the progression of a disease and relieving undesirable symptoms for as long as possible, rather than attempting to cure the (usually incurable) disease.

pallit

(uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) Masculinity, particularly strength, courage, and force of will; chutzpah; brazenness.

pallo

(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.

pallohuhtasieni

A true morel; any of several fungi in the genus Morchella, the upper part of which is covered with a reticulated and pitted hymenium.

pallokaksikulmio

(geometry) A concave figure formed by the intersection of the arcs of two circles on a plane, or on a sphere the intersection between two great semicircles.

pallokala

Any species of fish of the family Tetraodontidae that have the ability to inflate themselves to a globe several times their normal size by swallowing water or air when threatened.

pallokurpitsa

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

pallolasi

A type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy.

pallomaha

A large, protruding, or swollen abdomen; a paunch. [from 18th c.]

pallomainen

Spherical, ball-shaped.

pallonmenetys

(sports) A loss of possession of the ball without scoring.

pallonpuolisko

(geography) Half of the Earth, such as the Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere or Eastern Hemisphere, Land Hemisphere, Water Hemisphere etc. [1550s].

pallopää

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

pallopinta

(logic, dated) The domain of reference of a proposition, subject, or predicate, or the totality of the particular subjects to which it applies.

pallopurukumi

(usually, _, uncountable) A sweet chewing gum formulated to be stretchy so the chewer can blow bubbles with it.

pallosegmentti

(geometry) The part of a sphere cut off by a plane.

pallotella

(transitive) To consider or favor two apparently opposite sides; to be noncommittal.

pallura

(typography) A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle, “•”, often used to mark items in a list.

palmikko

(now, _, historical) A men's hairstyle with a braid or ponytail at the back of the head, such as that worn by men in Imperial China. [from 18th c.]

palo

A fire.

paloarpi

A scar produced by searing

paloitella

(transitive) To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.

paloittainen

Made or done in pieces or one stage at a time.

paloitteluveitsi

A knife for chopping food, especially one with a large oblong blade.

palokunta

A unit of firefighters and their equipment.

palomies

(firefighting) A person who has been trained to put out fires.

palomino

A horse with a golden-colored coat and a white or cream-colored mane and tail.

palomuuri

(architecture) A fireproof barrier used to prevent the spread of fire between or through buildings, structures, electrical substation transformers, or within an aircraft or vehicle.

palontorjuja

(firefighting) A person who has been trained to put out fires.

palopommi

A weapon that causes fire; an incendiary weapon.

palopuhe

A criticism done by ranting.

palopuhuja

(pejorative) A political orator or leader, especially in a democratic system, who gains favor by pandering to or exciting the passions and prejudices of the audience rather than by using rational argument.

paloseinä

(architecture) A fireproof barrier used to prevent the spread of fire between or through buildings, structures, electrical substation transformers, or within an aircraft or vehicle.

palovamma

A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.

paloviina

A clear distilled alcoholic liquor made from grain mash.

pälpättää

(intransitive, pejorative) To talk rapidly without making much sense.

pälpätys

Idle chatter.

palpoida

To feel, to explore by touch.

palsami

A flowering plant of the genus Impatiens.

palsamia tuottava

Producing balsam.

palsamintuoksuinen

Having the pleasant odour of balsam; balmy, fragrant.

palsta

A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text.

palstaväli

(typography) A space between printed columns of text.

palte

(sewing) The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying.

palttiarallaa

Imprecise but close to in quantity or amount.

palttoo

A heavy garment worn over other clothes, for protection from cold or weather.

palturi

An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.

paluu

the act of backtracking

paluuarvo

(computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.

paluukiekko

(sports) The strike of the ball after it has bounced off a defending player or the crossbar or goalpost.