Finnish–English dictionary

Pietari

A en given name.

Pietarila

A surname originating as a patronymic.

Pietarin kirje

(biblical) The epistles of Peter in the New Testament of the Bible, 1 Peter and 2 Peter attributed to St. Peter.

Pietarinen

A surname originating as a patronymic.

pietaryrtti

A herbaceous plant with yellow flowers, of the genus Tanacetum, especially Tanacetum vulgare.

pigmentaatio

Coloration of human, plant or animal tissue, especially by pigment.

pigmentti

(biology) Any color in plant or animal cells.

piha

A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.

pihan perä

(North America) An outbuilding, typically permanent, containing a toilet or seat over a cesspit.

pihanurmikko

Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.

pihatie

The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.

pihaus

A feeble utterance or complaint.

pihdit

An instrument used in surgery or medical procedures for grasping and holding objects, similar to tongs or pincers.

pihi

(informal, chiefly, derogatory) Stingy; mean; excessively frugal.

pihinä

An emission of a rapid stream of bubbles.

pihisevä

(NZ) A non-alcoholic carbonated beverage.

pihistä

To sputter or hiss.

pihistää

(transitive) To illegally take possession of (something, especially items of low value); to pilfer, to steal.

pihistellä

(intransitive) To be sparing or mean.

pihka

A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.

pihkainen

Of or relating to resin.

pihkassa

In love.

pihlaja

Any of several trees in the genus Sorbus in North America.

pihta

(chiefly, countable) A conifer of the genus Abies.

pihtailla

(intransitive) To be sparing or mean.

pihtihäntäinen

Any of various insects of the order Dermaptera that have elongated bodies, large membranous wings folded underneath short leathery forewings and a pair of large pincers protruding from the rear of the abdomen.

pihvi

(US, Australia, New Zealand) A flattened portion of ground meat or a vegetarian equivalent, usually round but sometimes square in shape.

pihviravintola

A restaurant that specializes in good cuts of meat, particularly steak.

pii

(chemistry, uncountable) A nonmetallic element (symbol Si) with an atomic number of 14 and atomic weight of 28.0855.

pii[[-s|:s]]

(mathematics) The ordinal form of the number pi (π; approximately 3.14159…).

piidioksidi

Silicon dioxide. [from 1801]

piika

A maid or household servant.

piikata

(transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.

piikiekko

A thin slice of silicon used to fabricate semiconductor devices such as integrated circuits.

piikikäs

Having sharp points like needles.

piikikkö

Any of several rodents of either of the taxonomic families Hystricidae (Old World porcupines) or Erethizontidae (New World porcupines), both from the infraorder Hystricognathi, noted for their sharp spines or quills, which are raised when the animal is attacked or surprised.

piikitellä

(transitive) To tease in order to provoke; to poke fun at.

piikittää

(transitive) To administer an injection to (someone or something), especially of medicine or drugs.

piikittelijä

A person or thing that irritates or instigates.

piikivi

A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air.

piikkari

(chiefly, North America) A type of women's shoe which leaves the instep uncovered and has a relatively high heel, especially a stiletto (with a very high and thin heel)

piikki

(figuratively) A hurtful or disparaging remark.

piikkikaunokki

(colloquial) The starthistle, Centaurea calcitrapa, a plant with sharp thorns.

piikkikorkokenkä

(chiefly, North America) A type of women's shoe which leaves the instep uncovered and has a relatively high heel, especially a stiletto (with a very high and thin heel)

piikkilanka-aita

A fence made of usually barbed wire.

piikkileguaani

Any of certain lizards of the genus Sceloporus.

piikkimäinen

Resembling spikes: erect and having sharp points; spikelike.

piikkimakrilli

A jack mackerel (Trachurus trachurus), of the family Carangidae.

piikkinen

Having spikes.

piikkipensas

Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns, especially a hawthorn.

piileksiä

Remaining hidden (typically of a person).

piileskellä

(intransitive) To hide, to be in hiding or concealment.

piilevä

Any of a group of minute unicellular algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, now categorized as class Diatomophyceae or division Bacillariophyta.

piili

(obsolete) A dart; an arrow.

piilo

A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.

piilokorkokenkä

A type of shoe having an insert lift to make the wearer appear taller.

piilolinssi

(informal) A contact lens.

piilomerkitys

(pragmatics) An implied meaning that does not semantically entail.

piilopaikka

(figurative) A second home, etc., where one can seek an escape or refuge from the stresses of everyday life.

piilopirtti

(now, rare) A place of seclusion or privacy; a retreat. [from 17th c.]

piilossa

(archaic) Not yet brought forward, produced, or exhibited to view; out of sight; remaining.

piilotajuinen

(psychology) Without directed thought or awareness.

piilotajunta

(psychology) That part of mind that is not consciously perceived.

piilotella

(transitive) To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.

piilotettu

Located or positioned out of sight; not visually apparent.

piilottaa

To impart (something) gratuitously; to present (something) to someone or something, especially as a gift or an honour; to confer, to give, to accord; to render.

piilottaa kämmeneensä

To hold or conceal something in the palm of the hand, e.g., for an act of sleight of hand or to steal something.

piilottaminen

The act of hiding something.

piilottelu

An attempt to conceal or disguise something, especially a wrongdoing or a mistake.

piiloutua

(intransitive) To put oneself in a place where one will be out of sight or harder to find.

piiloutunut

Obscure.

piimä

The liquid left over after producing butter from full cream milk by the churning process, also called traditional buttermilk.

piin vastaluku

(mathematics) One divided by pi, that is, \frac{1}{\pi} (approximately 0.31831…).

piina

(figurative, uncountable) Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.

piinaaja

A person who secretly follows someone, sometimes with unlawful intentions.

piinaaminen

(uncountable, dated) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.

piinapenkki

(informal) A process that is likely to be injurious in a non-physical way.

piinata

(transitive) To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.

piintyä

(transitive, figuratively) To make (something) deeply part of something else.

piintynyt

(figuratively) Ingrained, as through repeated use; entrenched; habitual or instinctive.

piip

used to represent the sound of a bird twittering: twit.

piipahtaa

(intransitive) Usually followed by by, in, or into: of a person: to visit someone or somewhere informally or without a prior appointment.

piipata

(intransitive, transitive) To produce a beep sound.

piipittää

To make a soft, shrill noise like a baby bird.

piipitys

A short, soft, high-pitched sound, as made by a baby bird.

piippaus

A short, electronically produced tone.

piippi

One of a series of very short, electronically produced tones, used, for example, to count down the final few seconds before a given time or to indicate that a caller using a payphone needs to make further payment to continue the call.

piippu

A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.

piipunhattu

A thin protective covering over all or part of an engine; also cowling.

piipunperskat

The still burning or wholly burnt tobacco plug in a pipe.

piirakka

Any of a variety of stuffed pastries found in Spanish, Filipino, and Latin American cuisine.

piiras

A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling. (Savory pies are more popular in the UK and sweet pies are more popular in the US, so "pie" without qualification has different connotations in these dialects.)

piiri

So as to surround or be near.

piirikunta

A division of Luxembourg, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, etc.

piirittää

To besiege; to surround with troops.

piiritys

(military) The isolation of a target by the formation of a blockade around it

piiritystorni

(obsolete) A movable tower used in sieges.

piiritysvaunu

(military, historical) A wheeled shelter, used in the Middle Ages to protect assailants approaching besieged enemy defences; a cathouse.

piironki

A chest of drawers.

piirre

A characteristic or quality of a thing.

piirrellä

(ambitransitive) To draw or scribble aimlessly.

piirretty

Any of several types of film / movie, the frames of which are drawn by hand in order to give a sense of movement when projected in rapid sequence.

piirrin

A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber.

piirros

A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper.

piirroselokuva

(animation) A cartoon series.

piirrosfilmi

(animation) A cartoon series.

piirrossarja

(animation) A cartoon series.

piirrottaa

(transitive) To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.

piirtää

(transitive) To attract or cause (someone) to come to a particular place or to take a particular course of action; also, to cause (someone) to turn away from a particular condition or course of action. [from 12th c.]

piirtää käyrä

(transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).

piirtää läpi

(transitive) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.

piirtää tuhkaristi

(transitive, Christianity, chiefly, passive) To mark (someone) with an ashen cross on the forehead to observe Ash Wednesday.

piirtää ympäri

(geometry) To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior.

piirtää ympyrä monikulmion kärkien kautta

(geometry) To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior.

piirtäjä

A person skilled at drawing engineering or architectural plans.

piirtäminen

An act or event in which the outcome (e.g., designating a winner) is selected by chance in the form of a blind draw, notably of lots; especially such a contest in which a winning name or number is selected randomly by removing (or drawing) it from a container, popularly a hat.

piirteet

A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance.

piirto

A single movement of a paintbrush, chisel, pen, pencil, or similar implement; a line or mark made by such an implement.

piirturi

(computing) An output device that draws graphs and other pictorial images on paper, sometimes using attached pens.

piirturikäyrä

A record in the form of a graph made by a device such as a seismograph.

piiru

(military) A unit of angular measurement equal to 1/6400 of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (~0,98 m). Also 1/6000 and 1/6300 are used in other countries.

piirustukset

(architecture, engineering, by extension) A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form).

piirustus

(architecture, engineering, by extension) A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form).

piirustusrobotti

(computing) A type of robot having a domed case (and so resembling the reptile), used in education, especially for making line drawings by means of a computer program.

piisami

A semiaquatic rodent of the tribe Ondatrini.

piisata

(intransitive) To be enough or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be adequate; to be good enough.

piisi

A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.

piisiru

(electronics) A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate; a microchip.

piiska

(US, slang, law enforcement) A police patrol car.

piiskaaja

Someone who spanks.

piiskamainen

Resembling a whip.

piiskanisku

A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough, often given as a punishment.

piiskaniskuvamma

(countable) The lash of a whip.

piiskata

(transitive) To whip or scourge.

piiskaus

A flagellation as a means of obtaining sexual gratification.

piiskuri

(politics) A member of a political party who is in charge of enforcing the party's policies in votes.

piispa

(Christianity) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.

piispan kirje

(religion, Christianity) A letter of the House of Bishops, to be read in each parish.

piispanistuin

The bishop's seat or throne in ancient churches.

piitata

(transitive, intransitive) To be concerned (about), to have an interest (in); to feel concern (about).

piittaamaton

Unaware; without noticing; careless; inattentive.

piittaamatta

Unaware; without noticing; careless; inattentive.

piittaamattomasti

In a negligent manner: carelessly or inattentively.

piittaamattomuus

The act or state of deliberately not paying attention or caring about something.

pika

Any of several small, furry mammals, similar to guinea pigs, but related to rabbits, of the genus Ochotona, from the mountains of North America and Asia.

pika-

Quick, fast, intensive, impromptu.

pikainen

Hasty or superficial.

pikaisesti

In an acute manner

pikaiset

(colloquial, by extension) A brief sexual encounter.

pikaistaa

(literary, also, figuratively) To give life to (someone or something never alive or once dead); to animate, to resurrect, to revive. [from 14th c.]