Finnish–English dictionary

rahtu

A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot.

rahtunen

(sometimes used adverbially) Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle.

rahvaanomainen

Of or for the common people.

rahvas

A class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank; commoners.

raidallinen

Having bars; striped.

raidat

(in the plural) The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.

raideleveys

(automotive) The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree.

raidesepeli

Coarse gravel or similar material laid to form a bed for roads or railroads, or in making concrete; track ballast.

raidesora

Coarse gravel or similar material laid to form a bed for roads or railroads, or in making concrete; track ballast.

raidoittaa

(transitive) To bleach individual strands of hair while leaving adjacent strands untouched.

raihnainen

Weakened or worn out from age or wear.

raihnaisuus

feebleness, frailty or ailment, especially due to old age.

raihnas

Sickly; sick; ill; unwell.

raikas

(figuratively) With a cheerful, casual, lively and light-hearted manner.

raikastava

That refreshes someone; pleasantly fresh and different; granting vitality and energy.

raikastin

(often, in combination) Something that freshens

räikeä

(archaic) Bellowing; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly.

räikeys

(figurative) Of colour, light, or some other quality: dazzling, often garish, brilliance.

räikkä

A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper.

raikkaan hapokas

(oenology) Of wine: having a refreshing amount of acidity; having less acidity than green wine, but more than a flabby one.

raikkaus

The state or quality of being fresh.

raikua

To make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet.

raikuna

A loud sound.

raikuvasti

(by extension) Emphatically, so as to be celebrated.

railo

A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.

Raimo

A en given name.

raina

A length of film containing individual photographs or diagrams intended to be shown in sequence as instruction or as a visual aid.

rainelippu

(nautical) A small ship's flag used as a signal or identifying device; a small flag flown at the bow of the vessel. [from 17th c.]

raippa

An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding.

räiskäisy

A shot taken at an easy or random target.

räiskäle

(countable, and, uncountable) A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter; in particular:

raiskata

(transitive) To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert [from around 1350 to 1470.]

räiskiä

To fire potshots.

räiskintä

A shot taken at an easy or random target.

räiskintäpeli

(video games) A video game in which shooting enemies (or targets) is the main objective.

räiskyttää

To forcefully emit (something), especially in small drops or particles; to sputter.

räiskytys

(countable) A forceful emission of something, especially in small drops or particles; a spluttering or sputtering.

räiskyvä

(of a liquid) Giving off bubbles; fizzy.

raita

(heraldiccharge) A diminutive of the bend, of the same shape, but only half the width of the bend.

raitiotie

(chiefly, UK, Ireland) The track on which a tram (streetcar) runs.

raitis

Invigoratingly cool and refreshing.

raittius

Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating/alcoholic beverages; total abstinence; teetotalism). [First attested around 1150 to 1350.]

raittiuslupaus

(with the) A promise to abstain from drinking alcohol.

raivari

An often childish display or fit of bad temper.

raivata

(transitive) To set a mark on (as a tree, usually by cutting off a piece of its bark).

raivattu

(archaic, or, obsolete) Chiefly of a place: which has been ridded (sense 1.4.1) or cleared; rid-up.

raivaus

The act of clearing or something (such as a space) cleared.

raivaustraktori

A tractor with caterpillar tracks and an attached blade for pushing earth and building debris for coarse preliminary surface grading, demolishing building structures, etc.

raivio

The act of clearing or something (such as a space) cleared.

raivo

Extreme anger.

raivoaminen

A course of violent, frenzied action.

raivoisa

(humorism, historical) Having a temperament characterized by an excess of choler; easily becoming angry.

raivoisasti

In a frantic way.

raivoissaan

(figurative) Heated up; excited. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]

raivokas

Marked by extreme and violent energy.

raivokkaasti

In a fierce manner.

raivokkuus

The condition of being ferocious.

raivonpuuska

An often childish display or fit of bad temper.

raivopäinen

Furiously, injuriously, or maniacally violent or out of control.

raivostua

(intransitive, sometimes with “out” instead of “up”) To burst out suddenly, as in anger.

raivostunut

(figurative) Marked by extreme anger or fury.

raivostuttaa

(transitive) To fill with rage; to outrage; to provoke to frenzy; to make furious.

raivota

(figurative) To be furiously angry; to speak or write in a rage.

raivotar

(Greek mythology) A female personification of vengeance.

raivotauti

(pathology) An aversion to water, as a symptom of rabies; the disease of rabies itself.

raivotauti-

Of or pertaining to rabies, or hydrophobia.

raivotautinen

Of, or having, hydrophobia (rabies).

raivotilassa

(rare) Of a male animal such as a camel or an elephant: in musth.

raivottaret

(Roman god) The goddesses of vengeance; they were also known to accompany Invidia. They are the Roman counterparts of the Furies/Erinyes.

raja

A boundary or limit.

raja-

Outside the mainstream.

raja-alue

The place at which a division occurs.

rajaaminen

The act of cropping.

räjähde

Any explosive substance.

räjähdys

An explosion.

räjähdysaine

Any explosive substance.

räjähdysaineiden valmistus

(obsolete) The manufacture and use of gunpowder, bombs etc.

räjähdysenergia

(military) The energy released by an explosion

räjähdysherkkä

Able to, or likely to, explode.

räjähdysmäinen

Having the character of an explosion.

räjähdystekninen

Of or relating to the use of fire in chemistry or metallurgy.

räjähtää

(intransitive) To make a loud noise.

räjähtää tulipalloksi

To explode in a ball of fire or flame.

räjähtämäisillään

Full of bubbles.

räjähtämätön

Not volatile (in any sense).

räjähtäminen

A sudden, uncontrolled or rapid increase, expansion, or bursting out.

räjähtänyt

Subjected to an explosion.

räjähtävä

Able to, or likely to, explode.

rajailmiö

(phonology) Any of a wide variety of phonological processes that occur at morpheme or word boundaries, such as the fusion of sounds across word boundaries and the alteration of sounds due to neighboring sounds or due to the grammatical function of adjacent words.

rajakäyrä

(engineering) The set of limitations within which a technological system can perform safely and effectively.

rajakohta

The place at which a division occurs.

rajalinja

A limit thus fixed, in full demarcation line.

rajallinen

Able to be expended; not inexhaustible.

rajamaa

Land near a border; marches.

rajanveto

The act of marking off a boundary or setting a limit, notably by belligerents signing a treaty or ceasefire.

rajapinta

(computing) The point of interconnection between systems or subsystems.

rajaseutu

Land near a border; marches.

Rajasthan

A state in northwestern India, created in 1949 and replacing the former province of Rajputana. Capital: Jaipur. [from 20th c.]

rajasuutari

A person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes.

rajat

A control; a limit or stop.

rajata

(transitive) To put a border on something.

rajata pois

(transitive) To divide into or assign to sections or areas.

rajaton

Free from constraint; uninhibited. [Late 17th century]

rajattomuus

(uncountable) endlessness, unlimitedness, absence of a beginning, end or limits to size.

rajattu

Having distinct limits.

rajaus

(taxonomy) The definition of what does and does not belong to a given taxon, from a particular taxonomic viewpoint or taxonomic system.

rajauskynä

Makeup used to outline the eye, generally applied along or close to the lashline.

rajaviiva

(countable) A boundary or accepted division; a border.

räjäyttää

(transitive) To shatter, as if by an explosion.

räjäyttää dynamiitilla

To blow up with dynamite or other high explosive.

räjäytyskuoppa

The pit left by the explosion of a mine or bomb. [from 1839]

rajoite

Something that constrains; a restriction.

rajoitettu

(analysis, of a set) That can be enclosed within a ball of finite radius.

rajoitin

(figurative) Something that checks or restrains; a restraint.

rajoittaa

(transitive) To put a border on something.

rajoittamaton

Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional. [first attested in the late 1400s]

rajoittaminen

The act of limiting or the state of being limited.

rajoittava

Having the power of compulsion; constraining.

rajoittua

(intransitive) To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land) [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

rajoittunut

Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.

rajoittuva

(geography) Sharing a border; geographically adjacent.

rajoitukset

(figurative, in the plural) The conditions and limitations in a contract collectively.

rajoitus

Something that constrains; a restriction.

raju

Exceedingly violent, severe, ferocious, cruel or savage.

rajuilma

A storm, especially one with severe winds.

rajuilmainen

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; also, of a place: frequently experiencing tempests; (very) stormy.

rajusti

In a fierce manner.

rajuus

An intense concentration, force or power.

räkä

(uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.

räkä-

Of, relating to, or made of rheum; watery.

räkäinen

Running or dirtied with mucus.

räkäistä

(slang, ambitransitive) To spit, especially to spit phlegm.

räkäklimppi

(US, Canada, Philippines, slang) A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from a nostril.

räkälä

(slang) A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.

räkänokka

(slang, countable) A contemptible child.

räkäpää

(firearms) Ellipsis of blank cartridge [since the 19th century].

räkäpaakku

(US, Canada, Philippines, slang) A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from a nostril.

rakas

Much loved, dearly loved.

rakastaa

(usually, transitive, sometimes, _, intransitive, stative) To have a strong affection for (someone or something).

rakastaen

In a loving manner, affectionately.

rakastaja

One who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, girlfriend, or spouse.

rakastajatar

The other woman in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations.

rakastavasti

In an amorous or loving manner.

rakastella

(somewhat, _, formal) To engage in sexual intercourse.

rakastella jnk kanssa

(transitive, euphemistic) To have sex with (perhaps from make love).

rakastelu

(slang) Sex or other sexual activity, especially if illicit.

rakastettava

Friendly; kind; sweet; gracious

rakastettu

Much loved, dearly loved.

rakastua

(mostly in the passive, followed by "of" or "with") To cause to be in love.

rakastunut

(dated) Affected with love; in love; enamored.