Finnish–English dictionary

häivähdys

(figurative) A short moment.

häive-

(uncountable) The attribute or characteristic of acting in secrecy, or in such a way that the actions are unnoticed or difficult to detect by others.

haiven

Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)

häivetekniikka

(uncountable) The attribute or characteristic of acting in secrecy, or in such a way that the actions are unnoticed or difficult to detect by others.

häivy

(idiomatic, informal, transitive, dismissal) Used to tell somebody to leave one alone.

häivyttää

(transitive) To drive away or cause to vanish by scattering.

hajaannus

(collective) The dispersion of a group in a manner comparable to that of the Jews among the Gentiles after the Babylonian captivity (6th century BCE).

hajaantua

(intransitive, idiomatic) To dissolve; to part.

hajaantunut

Everywhere or throughout everything; not focused or concentrated.

hajaantuva

Growing further apart; diverging.

hajakylvää

(transitive, agriculture, horticulture, archaic) To sow seeds over a wide area.

hajakylvö

(agriculture, horticulture, archaic) The act of scattering seed; a crop grown from such seed.

hajalle

(archaic, literary) Into separate parts or pieces.

hajamielinen

Absent in mind; often preoccupied; forgetful or careless due to distraction; easily distracted. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]

hajamielisyys

Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind). [First attested in the early 18th century.]

hajanainen

Everywhere or throughout everything; not focused or concentrated.

hajanaisesti

In an incoherent manner.

hajareisin

With one’s legs on either side.

hajauttaa

(computing, transitive) To transform according to a hash function.

hajautusarvo

(computing) The result generated by a hash function.

hajautuva

Growing further apart; diverging.

hajoaminen

(countable) A failure in a relationship; a failure or loss of organization in a system.

hajonta

A process of dispersing.

hajota

(transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.

hajotelma

The splitting (of e.g. a matrix, an atom, or a compound) into constituent parts.

hajottaa

(intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.

hajottaa atomeiksi

(transitive) To separate or reduce into atoms.

hajottaa osiin

To take to pieces; to reverse the process of assembly.

hajottaminen

(chemistry, uncountable) Breaking of chemical bonds within a compound to produce simpler compounds or elements; (countable) an instance of this.

hajottamo

A business that sells used metal or items.

hajottava

Causing breakdown or disassembly.

haju

(countable) Foul or unpleasant smell, especially body odor.

hajuaine

A pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor.

hajuaisti

The skill in recognising bouquet.

hajujälki

(countable) The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.

hajulukko

A bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents the escape of noxious gases, but permits the flow of liquids.

hajunpoistaja

Any agent acting to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor.

hajunpoistoaine

Any agent acting to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor.

hajustaa

(transitive) To perfume or add fragrance to something.

hajuste

A pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor.

hajuton

Having no odor.

hajuvesi

A pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor.

haka

(countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.

hakanen

A U-shaped wire fastener, made of thick wire, used to attach fence wire or other material to posts or structures.

häkärä

(countable, uncountable) Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. (Compare fog, haze.)

hakaristi

(countable) A cross with arms of equal length all bent halfway along at a 90° angle to the right or to the left, used as a religious symbol by various ancient and modern civilizations, but now mainly seen and used in the West (with arms angled to the right) as a symbol of Nazism and fascism.

hakata

(idiomatic, intransitive) to strike or hit repeatedly

hakata mustelmille

(transitive) To strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such a way as to discolour the skin without breaking it; to contuse.

hakea

(intransitive) To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" or "at" designating the recipient of the submission, and the adposition "for" designating the position).

hakea täydennyksiä

(transitive) To supply again.

hakea vainu

(hunting) Of dogs, hunters: to spread out and search for a scent. [from 18th c.]

hakea wikistä

(transitive, intransitive) To research on Wikipedia or some similar wiki.

häkellyttää

(transitive) To perplex, confuse (someone).

häkellyttävä

Very baffling, confusing, or perplexing, often due to a very large choice being available.

hakeminen

An attempt to find something.

hakemisto

(computing) An array-like data structure where the indices (called keys) are not limited to integers.

hakemus

A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school, course or similar.

haketin

(in particular, US) A machine that reduces organic matter to compost; depending on size, whole tree trunks are reduced to sawdust; a woodchipper.

hakettaa

(transitive) To chop or cut into small pieces.

hakeutua

(intransitive, figuratively) To tend or drift towards someone or something, as though being pulled by gravity.

hakija

One who applies for something; one who makes a request; a petitioner.

hakkaaja

One who cuts with heavy or rough blows.

hakkailla

(intransitive) To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way. [from 18th c.]

hakkelus

Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together. corn-beef hash

hakkeri

(by extension) One who applies a novel method, shortcut, skill, or trick to something to increase ease, efficiency, or productivity.

hakkeroida

(transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.

hakkerointi

(computing) Playful solving of technical work that requires deep understanding, especially of a computer system.

hakkerointiyritys

(computing, slang) The illegal accessing of a computer network.

hakkeroitu softa

(computing, slang) A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.

häkki

An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.

häkkikanala

A set of small cages where hens are kept for the purpose of farming their eggs.

hakku

(obsolete) A mattock or a miner's pickaxe.

hakkuri

(in particular, US) A machine that reduces organic matter to compost; depending on size, whole tree trunks are reduced to sawdust; a woodchipper.

hakkuu

A cutting-down of timber.

haksahdus

A clumsy or embarrassing mistake.

haku

(countable, computing) The process of locating data in memory.

hakulaite

A pager (wireless telecommunication device).

hakurobotti

(Internet) A software bot that autonomously follows connected paths such as links between web pages.

hakusana

An item in a list, such as an article in a dictionary or encyclopedia.

hakuvalo

A light source that projects a bright beam of light in any direction, generally for military use.

halailla

(intransitive) Of a person: to caress, fondle, or pet another person; of two people: to caress, fondle, or pet each other; also, to have sexual intercourse; to make love.

halailu

(sex) The act of kissing, stroking, etc., a person in a sexual manner.

halal

(specifically, of food) Fit to eat according to Muslim religious customs.

halata

To embrace passionately.

halaus

(obsolete) An embrace.

hali

A close embrace, especially when charged with an emotion such as affection, joy, relief, lust, anger, aggression, compassion, and the like, as opposed to being characterized by formality, equivocation or ambivalence (a half-embrace or "little hug").

haliitti

(mineral) Native salt; sodium chloride NaCl as a mineral; rock salt.

hälinä

Fuss, ado.

hälistä

(intransitive) To become noisy insistently.

halitoosi

(pathology) The condition of having stale or foul-smelling breath.

haljas

(leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.

haljeta

(transitive) To cause to break from internal pressure.

haljeta liuskoiksi

To add numbers to (a folio or leaf, or all the folios or leaves, of a book); also, to add numbers to the folios or leaves of (a book); to folio, to page, to paginate.

halkaisija

Anything forming or resembling such a line, particularly:

halkaista

(transitive) To cause to break from internal pressure.

halkaista kahtia

(transitive) To cut or divide into two parts.

halkeama

A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.

halkeamaisillaan

(often followed by "to go to...") Urgently needing to urinate.

halkeaminen

The process whereby one item splits to become two.

halkeilla

(transitive) To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.

halkeilu

The formation of cracks on a surface.

halki

From one side to the other within (a space being traversed).

halkinainen

split, divided, or partially divided into two.

halkio

(heraldiccharge) A vertical band down the middle of a shield.

halkipäinen

That splits into two or more directions, or parts.

halko

A short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood.

halkoa

(transitive) To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument.

halla

A period of intensely cold weather.

hälle

(in the singular, occasionally, proscribed) A single person, previously mentioned, whose gender is unknown, irrelevant, or (since 21st c.) non-binary.

halleluja

A shout of “Hallelujah”.

halli

A large open space in or in front of a building where people can gather, particularly one joining various paths, as in a rail station or airport terminal, or providing access to and linking the platforms in a railway terminus.

hallinnoida

(transitive) To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an administrative capacity.

hallinnoija

One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager.

hallinnollinen

Of or pertaining to administering or administration.

hallinta

A control; a limit or stop.

hallintalaitteet

The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button.

hallinto

(uncountable) The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction.

hallintoalue

A type of region in some countries.

hallintojärjestelmä

The specific system by which a political system is ruled.

hallintokausi

A period of rule.

hallintokoneisto

(politics, religion, usually, uncountable) Organizational structure and governance, especially of a state or a religion.

hallintomalli

Mode of rule or management.

hallintotoimi

(uncountable) The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction.

hallintovirkamies

One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager.

hallita

(transitive) To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an administrative capacity.

hallita itsensä

(transitive) To give (written or oral testimony or evidence); (figurative) to provide or constitute (evidence or proof), give witness.

hallitsema

(in combination) Under the control of the specified entity.

hallitsematon

Not able to be controlled, contained or governed.

hallitseminen

The process, or the power, of governing; government or administration.

hallitseva

(chiefly, British) Exerting control over a person or thing.

hallitseva mestari

The person who possesses a rank or title.

hallitsevuus

Being in a position of power, authority or ascendancy over others.

hallitsija

One possessing similar mastery over others; (historical) any feudal superior generally; any nobleman or aristocrat; any chief, prince, or sovereign ruler; in Scotland, a male member of the lowest rank of nobility (the equivalent rank in England is baron)

hallitsijasuku

A series of rulers or dynasts from one family.

hallitsijatar

A person who rules or governs; someone or something that exercises dominion or controlling power over others.

hallittava

Able to be controlled; subject to regulation or command.

hallittavissa oleva

Able to be controlled; subject to regulation or command.

hallittu

Inhibited or restrained in one's words and actions.

hallittuus

The state of being governed.

hallituksellinen

Relating to a government.

hallituksen puheenjohtaja

The head of a corporate or governmental board of directors, a committee, or other formal entity.

hallitus

A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.

hallitusherra

(informal, British) A senior civil servant.

hallituskausi

The period during which a monarch rules.

hallitusmuoto

A form of government, or the government in power, particularly an authoritarian or totalitarian one.

hallituspula

(politics) A period of time during which normal executive leadership is suspended or interrupted.

halloween

The eve of All Hallows' Day; October 31st; celebrated (mostly in English-speaking countries) by children going door-to-door in costume and soliciting candy with menaces.

hallusinaatio

A sensory perception of something that does not exist, often arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens.

hallusinatorinen

Partaking of, or tending to produce, hallucination.

hallusinogeeni

Any substance tending to induce hallucination.