Finnish–English dictionary

Jaakkima

A en given name, always rare in English.

Jaakko

A en given name derived from a pet form of the name John. Occasionally a diminutive of other given names such as Jackson, Jacob, Jacqueline or Jonathan.

Jaakob

(biblical character) One of the sons of Isaac and Rebecca, and twin brother of Esau; father of the Israelites (Jews and Samaritans) by 12 sons by 4 consorts, most famously Judah and Joseph who fathered Manasseh.

Jaakobin kirje

(Bible) The twentieth book of the New Testament.

jääkuutio

Any small piece of ice used for cooling drinks, larger than crushed ice, and regardless of their shape.

jääkylmä

Extremely cold, snowy, or having other properties of extreme winter associated with the Arctic. [from 16th c.]

jäälaatikko

A box or compartment containing ice, typically used to keep provisions cool. [from 19th c.]

jäälokero

A box or compartment containing ice, typically used to keep provisions cool. [from 19th c.]

jäämä

A part or parts remaining after some has/have been removed or already occurred.

jäämistö

The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person. [from 19th c.]

jäänalainen

Formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice.

jäänmurtaja

(watercraft) A ship designed to break through ice so that it, or other ships coming behind, can navigate on frozen seas.

jäänne

(mostly, in the plural) That which is left; relic; remainder.

jäännökset

That which remains; that which is left after loss or decay; a remaining portion.

jäännös

A part or parts remaining after some has/have been removed or already occurred.

jäännöserä

(economics) A set of leftover goods, of a quantity less than an evenly divisible shippable unit, often sold at reduced price.

jäänteet

Rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed.

jääpala

Any small piece of ice used for cooling drinks, larger than crushed ice, and regardless of their shape.

jääpallo

(sports, uncountable) A winter sport played on ice, from which ice hockey developed.

jääpeitteinen

covered with a layer of ice, e.g. water; frozen over

jääpuikko

A drooping, tapering shape of ice.

jäärä

A person with such an attitude.

jäärae

(chiefly, United States) Pellets of ice made of mostly-frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes.

jääräpää

(rare) An obstinate person.

jääräpäinen

(chiefly, UK, informal) Obstinate; stubborn.

jääräpäisesti

In a stubbornly resolute manner; tenaciously holding one's course of action or opinion.

jääräpäisyys

The state of being obdurate, intractable, or stubbornly inflexible.

jäärauta

An attachment to a shoe or boot that provides traction by means of spikes for climbing or walking on slippery surfaces, especially ice.

jaardi

(obsolete) The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16+1⁄2 feet.

jaardin mitta

A measuring rod thirty-six inches (one yard) long.

jaaritella

(idiomatic) To treat a topic, but omit its main points, often intentionally.

jaarittelevuus

Long-windedness, tiresome length, excess of words.

jaarittelu

Talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk.

jaaritus

A long meandering talk with no specific topic or direction.

jaarli

(nobility) A British or Irish nobleman next in rank above a viscount and below a marquess; equivalent to a European count. A female using the style is termed a countess.

jäätää

(intransitive, informal) To be affected by extreme cold.

jäätävä

Cold enough to cause discomfort.

jäätävä sade

(meteorology) Rain which freezes upon contact.

jäätävä tihku

(meteorology) Rain which freezes upon contact.

jäätävyys

Harsh cold.

jäätelö

An Italian variant of ice cream made from milk and sugar, combined with other flavourings. The ingredients are supercooled while stirring to break up ice crystals as they form.

jäätelöannos

(originally, US) A dessert consisting of ice cream with various toppings.

jäätelösooda

A soft beverage with a scoop of ice cream floating in it.

jäätikkö

(geology) A large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill.

jäätikkökaivo

(geology) A cylindrical, vertical shaft that extends through a glacier and is carved by meltwater from the glacier’s surface.

jäätikön alainen

Formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice.

jäätyä

(intransitive, copulative) Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.

jäätynyt

Having undergone the process of freezing; in ice form.

Jaava

An island in the Indonesian Archipelago, Indonesia.

jäävätä

To reject or repudiate (an authority, a person, a court judgment, etc.).

jäävätä itsensä

(reflexive, law) Of a judge, juror, or prosecutor: to declare (oneself) unable to participate in a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartiality.

jäävi

(legal, rare) A judge's interest in the result of a case, constituting grounds for them to not be allowed to sit the case (e.g., a conflict of interest).

jääviytyä

(reflexive, law) Of a judge, juror, or prosecutor: to declare (oneself) unable to participate in a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartiality.

jäävuori

A huge mass of ocean-floating ice which has broken off a glacier or ice shelf [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]

jäävuorta hitaampi

(hyperbolic, informal) Moving at a rate allegedly slower than a glacier; extremely slow.

jäbä

(slang) A term of address, usually for a man, conveying awe, excitement, surprise, annoyance, etc.

Jade

A en given name.

jadeiitti

(mineral) A pyroxene mineral, a sodium aluminium silicate with the chemical formula Na(Al,Fe3+)Si2O6, found in metamorphic rocks.

jadenvihreä

A semiprecious stone, either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often used for carving figurines.

jae

(chemistry) A component of a mixture, separated by fractionation.

jaella

(transitive) To distribute or apportion by (or as if by) lot.

jaettava

(arithmetic) A number or expression that is to be divided by another.

jaettu

separated or split into pieces

jaettuna

(mathematics) Divided by.

Jaffa

A port in western Israel.

jaguaari

A carnivorous spotted large cat native to South and Central America, Panthera onca.

jahdata

(transitive, nautical) To pursue a vessel in order to destroy, capture or interrogate her.

jahkaileva

(of a person) Not decisive; not marked by promptness or decision.

jahkailla

(figurative) To be uncertain or unable to make a decision; to vacillate, hesitate, or delay.

jahkailu

A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.

jähmeä

Having no power to move oneself or itself; inert.

jähmettää

(transitive) To change from a liquid to solid state, perhaps due to cold; called to freeze in nontechnical usage.

jähmettyä

(transitive) To change from a liquid to solid state, perhaps due to cold; called to freeze in nontechnical usage.

jähmettyminen

An act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.

jähmettynyt

(not comparable) Full and complete (usually applied to nouns involving lack of motion, sound, activity, or other signs of life) .

jahtaaja

Something or someone who chases. [from 14th c.]

jahtaus

(real tennis) The occurrence of a second bounce by the ball in certain areas of the court, giving the server the chance, later in the game, to "play off" the chase from the receiving end and possibly win the point.

jahti

(real tennis) The occurrence of a second bounce by the ball in certain areas of the court, giving the server the chance, later in the game, to "play off" the chase from the receiving end and possibly win the point.

Jahve

(religion) YHWH, the deity worshiped in Abrahamic religions.

jainalainen

Of or pertaining to Jainism.

jäinen

Cold and icy.

jäinen lumi

(skiing) Hard, icy snow which may be dangerous for skiing.

jakaa

To distribute according to a plan, generally followed by the adposition to.

jakaa (alueisiin)

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

jakaa (kahtia)

(intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.

jakaa kahtia

(intransitive) To divide or fork into two channels or branches.

jakaa kolmeen osaan

To divide into three equal parts.

jakaa kolmeen yhtä suureen osaan

(transitive, mathematics) to divide a quantity, angle etc into three equal parts

jakaa kreivikunniksi

(transitive) To constitute or reconstitute (a country or region) into one or more shires (noun sense 1.1) or counties.

jakaa kuudella

(informal, nonstandard, rare) To divide by six, equivalent to multiplying a denominator by six.

jakaa molemmat puolet

(transitive, mathematics) To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.

jakaa neljään osaan

(transitive) To divide into quarters; to divide by four.

jakaa neljällä

(transitive) To divide into quarters; to divide by four.

jakaa osiin

(ambitransitive) To divide into segments or sections.

jakaa paikat

(transitive, legislature) To recognize the standing of a person or persons by providing them with one or more seats which would allow them to participate fully in a meeting or session.

jakaa roolit

(transitive) To assign a role in a play or performance to (an actor).

jakaa segmentteihin

(ambitransitive) To divide into segments or sections.

jakaa tekijöihin

(transitive) To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).

jakaa uudelleen

(transitive) To distribute again.

jakaantua

(transitive) To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.

jakaantuminen

(mineralogy) Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the crystallizing process.

jakaantunut

disunited

jakaja

The person who deals the cards in a card game.

jäkälä

Any of many symbiotic organisms, being associations of algae and fungi, often found as white or yellow-to-blue–green patches on rocks, old walls, etc.

jakamaton

Unable to be split or made any smaller.

jakamattomuus

(historical) Synonym of valence (“the combining capacity of an atom, functional group, or radical determined by the number of atoms of hydrogen with which it will unite, or the number of electrons that it will gain, lose, or share when it combines with other atoms, etc.”).

jakaminen

The process or procedure for allocating things, especially money or other resources.

Jakarta

A province and capital city of Indonesia.

jäkättää

(ambitransitive) To repeatedly remind or complain to (someone) in an annoying way, often about insignificant or unnecessary matters.

jäkättäjä

A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer. [from 17th c.]

jäkätys

(North America, archaic, _, in Britain) Talk, especially unnecessary talk; chatter. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]

jakauma

(printing, historical) The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.

jakaus

(US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.

jakautua

(intransitive, mathematics) To be distributive.

jakautuminen

An act of distributing or state of being distributed.

jakautuva

Having bifurcations.

Jake

A en given name.

jakelu

The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution

jakeluauto

(British) A small vehicle used for local deliveries, especially in the term milk float.

jakeluautomaatti

A vending machine.

jakelukisko

An electrical conductor that carries a large current, especially one that is part of a power distribution system; typically a thick strip, or a tube, of copper or aluminium.

jakelulaite

An object used to dispense other items.

jakelupiste

A place or room where something is dispensed, particularly:

jakki

(electronics) A switch for a jack plug, a jackknife switch; (more generally) a socket used to connect a device to a circuit, network etc. [from 19th c.]

jakkipuu

The large fruit from this tree.

jakku

A garment worn over the torso, with or without sleeves, and of various lengths reaching from the hips to the ankles.

jako

The process or procedure for allocating things, especially money or other resources.

jako-osuus

(finance) A cash payment of money by a company to its shareholders, usually made periodically (e.g., quarterly or annually).

jakoavain

A wrench (spanner) with an adjustable jaw.

jakobiitti

(historical) A supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland in the late 17th century. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]

jakojäännös

(mathematics) The amount left over after subtracting the divisor as many times as possible from the dividend without producing a negative result. If n (dividend) and d (divisor) are integers, then n can always be expressed in the form n = dq + r, where q (quotient) and r (remainder) are also integers and 0 ≤ r < d.

jakokohta

The place at which a division occurs.

jakolasku

(arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.

jakomielinen tilanne

(informal, figurative) Any condition in which disparate or mutually exclusive activities coexist; a lack of decision between options. [from 20th c.]

jakomielisyys

(now, deprecated) A condition in which a person is supposed to have several distinct personalities; dissociative identity disorder. [from 20th c.]

jakomielitauti

(now, deprecated) A condition in which a person is supposed to have several distinct personalities; dissociative identity disorder. [from 20th c.]

jakoputki

(mechanics) A pipe fitting or similar device that connects multiple inputs and outputs.

jakotukki

(mechanics) A pipe fitting or similar device that connects multiple inputs and outputs.

jaksaa

(transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.

jakso

(astrology) One of the twelve divisions of a Great Year, equal to roughly 2000 years and governed by one of the zodiacal signs; a Platonic month.

jaksoittainen

recurring at regular intervals

jaksollinen

Happening at regular periods; isochronous, periodic.

jaksonaika

The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition of a wave or the rotation of a planet. [from 17th c.]

jaksotettu

(accounting) Whose value is not realized until a future date: e.g. annuities, charges, taxes, and income, either as an asset or liability.

jalallinen

Having legs of a certain specified type or number. [from 14th c.]

jalanjäljet

(computing) The audit trail left by a crashed program.

jalanjälki

The impression of the foot in a soft substance such as sand or snow.

jalankulkija

(not comparable) Of or intended for those who are walking.

jalankulkijamäärä

(uncountable, originally, and, chiefly, British) The number of pedestrians going into or passing through a place (especially a commercial venue such as a shop) during a specified time period; also, the pedestrians in a particular place regarded collectively; foot traffic.

jalankulku

(not comparable) Of or intended for those who are walking.