Finnish–English dictionary

Karo

A en given name or Charlene, also used as a formal given name, although less common than the male name.

Karoliina

A en given name.

karotisvaltimo

(anatomy) Either of the two main arteries that supply blood to the head of which the left in humans arises from the arch of the aorta and the right by bifurcation of the brachiocephalic artery with each passing up the side of the neck and dividing opposite the upper border of the thyroid cartilage into an external branch supplying the face, tongue, and external parts of the head and an internal branch supplying the brain, eye, and other internal parts of the head.

karpalo

(countable) The edible red berry of that shrub.

kärpänen

(informal) An enthusiasm for something; an obsession.

kärpännahka

The white fur of this animal, traditionally seen as a symbol of purity and used for judges' robes.

kärpäsentoukka

A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter. [from 15th c.]

kärpäslätkä

A hand-held device for swatting flies or other insects, to kill or shoo them.

kärpässieni

Any of very many agaric mushrooms, of the genus Amanita, most of which are very poisonous.

kärpätä

(transitive) To sharpen (the points of a horse's shoe) to prevent it from slipping on ice.

kärppä

A weasel found in northern latitudes (Mustela erminea in Eurasia, Alaska, and the Arctic, Mustela haidarum in Haida Gwaii, Mustela richardsonii in the rest of North America); its dark brown fur turns white in winter, apart from the black tip of the tail.

karppi

Any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae; specifically the common carp, Cyprinus carpio.

kärry

A lightweight wheeled cart; specifically, one attached to a bicycle as a conveyance for a child, or pulled by hand and used to transport groceries away from a shop.

kärrypolku

(UK) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.

kärryt

A small horse-drawn cart.

kärrytie

(UK) A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.

kärsä

A snout, the nose of an animal.

karsaasti

(of a look or glance) With disapproval, skepticism, or suspicion.

kärsäkäs

A weevil; specifically, a true weevil ("beetle belonging to the family Curculionidae")

kärsäkäsmäinen

Any of many tens of thousands of species of herbivorous beetles, ranging in size from tiny to large, in the superfamily Curculionoidea, the most characteristic species having the head projecting in a distinctive snout with the mouthparts at the tip.

karsas

Having a repugnance or opposition of mind.

karsastaa

(intransitive) To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.

karsastava

(optometry) Of an eye, squinting because of a weakness of the eye muscles.

karsastus

A squint.

karsi

(originally, US, also, figurative) Chiefly in to a crisp: a food item that has been overcooked, or a thing which has been burned, to the point of becoming charred or dried out.

kärsiä

(intransitive) To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.

kärsiä ruostetaudista

(plant disease) To affect the fertility or growth of (a plant) with a blight (noun sense 1.1), especially one caused by a fungus; to blast, to mildew, to smut.

karsija

A person who prunes trees.

kärsimättömästi

In an impatient manner.

kärsimättömyys

(archaic, rare) Lack of self-control; excess, intemperance; also, irregular or unruly behaviour.

kärsimys

A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.

kärsimysnäytelmä

A display, musical composition, or play meant to commemorate the suffering of Jesus.

karsina

An enclosed area used to hold bulls.

karsinnat

(legal) A meeting or series of meetings in a court of law at which evidence is presented to a judge (and sometimes a jury) to allow them to decide on a legal matter (especially whether an accused person is guilty of a crime).

karsinoida

(transitive) To enclose in a pen.

karsinta

Any of a series of sports events that determine the finalists

karsintaerä

(countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race.

karsintaottelu

Any of a series of sports events that determine the finalists

karsittu puu

(often, attributive) A pruned tree; the wood of such trees.

karsiutua

(intransitive) To undergo a reduction in number.

kärsivä

Experiencing pain; characterized by suffering.

kärsivällinen

(of a person) Willing to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting.

kärsivällisesti

In a patient manner.

kärsivällisyys

Patient self-control; restraint and tolerance under provocation.

karski

Being rough and coarse in manner or disposition; overly aggressive and causing irritation. [First attested in 1925.]

karskisti

In a harsh manner; severely.

karsta

(dated, textiles) A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.

karstain

(textiles) A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare these materials for spinning into yarn or thread on a spinning wheel, with a whorl or other hand-held spindle. The card serves to untangle, clean, remove debris from, and lay the fibers straight.

karstata

(textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.

karstauskone

(textiles) A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare these materials for spinning into yarn or thread on a spinning wheel, with a whorl or other hand-held spindle. The card serves to untangle, clean, remove debris from, and lay the fibers straight.

karstivajoama

(geology) A hole formed in soluble rock by the action of water, serving to conduct surface water to an underground passage.

kartagolainen

Of or pertaining to Carthage.

kartano

An (especially extensive) area of land, under a single ownership. [from 18th c.]

kartanonherra

(archaic) The owner of a house, piece of land, or other possession

kartanpiirtäjä

One who makes maps or charts.

kartantekijä

One who makes maps or charts.

kartasto

A bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text.

kartelli

(economics) A group of businesses or nations that collude to limit competition within an industry or market.

kartessi

A projectile component containing colored or screening smoke or riot control agent composition.

Karthago

(historical) An ancient city in North Africa, in modern Tunisia. [16th cent.]

kartio

(geometry) A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.

kartio-

(geometry) Of or relating to a cone or cones.

kartiomainen

Shaped like a cone.

kartiopinta

(geometry) A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.

kartografi

One who makes maps or charts.

kartografia

(uncountable) The creation of charts and maps based on the layout of a territory's geography. [from 19th c.]

kartoittaa

(transitive) To draw a chart or map of.

kartoitus

(countable, figuratively) An illustrative discussion of a topic. [from 20th c.]

kartonki

A wood-based material resembling heavy paper, used in the manufacture of boxes, cartons and signs.

kartta

A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary, showing the relative positions of places and other features.

karttaa

(transitive) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from.

karttakeppi

A teacher's pointer, pointing stick, a rod with an arrow.

karttaminen

(uncountable) Often followed by against, between, for, or to: a (deep) feeling of dislike or repugnance, normally towards a person and less often towards a thing, often without any conscious reasoning; aversion, distaste, hostility; (countable) an instance of this.

karttaoppi

(uncountable) The creation of charts and maps based on the layout of a territory's geography. [from 19th c.]

karttapallo

A spherical model of Earth or other planet.

karttaperhonen

(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Araschnia (especially, Araschnia levana) and Cyrestis, having map-like markings on the wings.

karttu

Any flying mammal of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous.

karttuminen

(accounting) The continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings.

kärttyinen

Easily exasperated or excited.

kärttyisä

Given to or marked by an ill-tempered, quarrelsome nature; ill-tempered, cranky, crabby.

kartuttaa

(intransitive) To adhere; to grow or to be added to gradually.

karu

Lacking decoration; trivial; not extravagant or gaudy.

karuselli

A continuously revolving device for item delivery.

karuus

Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline.

karva

(uncountable) Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal

karvainen

Covered with fur, or with something resembling fur.

karvakerä

A small wad of fur or mass of hair formed in the digestive system of a cat or other animal, from hair ingested while grooming.

karvakolmio

(chiefly, North American, slang, countable) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself; (attributively) denoting films or literature featuring nude women.

karvalanka

A type of rough carpet pile.

karvan verta

(countable) Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.

karvanlähtö

(medicine, dermatology) Loss of hair from the head or body due to a medical condition.

karvanpoisto

A preparation that removes hair from the body.

karvat

(slang, vulgar) A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's. [from 1745]

karvaton

Destitute of hair.

karvaturri

A rough, woolly, or shaggy dog.

kärventää

(ergative) To burn something to charcoal; to be burnt to charcoal.

kärventyä

(ergative) (To cause) to become scorched or singed

kärventymä

A slight or surface burn.

karviainen

A fruit of species Ribes uva-crispa, related to the currant.

karviaismarja

A fruit of species Ribes uva-crispa, related to the currant.

karvoittua

(intransitive) To grow hair (where there was a bald spot).

karvoitus

(slang) Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.

karvoja poistava

That removes hair

karvojen ajaja

One who shaves.

käry

A gas or vapour/vapor that is strong-smelling or dangerous to inhale.

kas

Relevant to or suitable to, in accordance with.

kas kummaa

Used to express surprise.

kas tässä

Lo, there it is; see here; ta-da; presto; behold!

kasa

A mound or heap.

kasaaminen

The act or process of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements.

kasaantua

(intransitive) To adhere; to grow or to be added to gradually.

kasaantuma

A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., especially by wind or water.

kasaantuminen

(uncountable) (Gradual) increase by an external addition of matter; (countable) an instance of this.

kasaantuva

Incorporating all current and previous data up to the present or at the time of measuring or collating.

kasakka

A member or descendant of an originally (semi-)nomadic population of Eastern Europe and the adjacent parts of Asia, formed in part of runaways from neighbouring countries, that eventually settled in parts of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Russian tsarist Empire and constituted a military caste, particularly in areas now comprising southern Russia and Ukraine.

kasari

A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.

kasarmi

(military, chiefly, in the plural) A building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred to temporary huts, now usually to a permanent structure or set of buildings.

kasata

(transitive) To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together (either literally or figuratively), often gradually and without active intent.

kasattu

Consisting or formed of smaller objects or parts.

kasauma

An accumulation; an increase; a gradual development.

kasaus

The act or process of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements.

kasautua

(intransitive, transitive, idiomatic) To accumulate: to increase incrementally or continually.

kasautuma

(uncountable) The process of separate particles aggregating or coalescing together; concretion; (countable) a thing formed in this manner.

kasautuva

Incorporating all current and previous data up to the present or at the time of measuring or collating.

kasba

The fortress in a city in North Africa or the Middle East.

kasetti

(computing) A vessel which contains the ink or toner for a computer printer and can be easily replaced with another.

Kashmir

A contested geographic region of South Asia in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, located between (and de facto divided between) India, Pakistan and China.

käsi

(anatomy) The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand.

käsi-

(of an activity) Performed with the hands.

käsiala

Handwriting; style of penmanship.

käsialakirjoitus

(typography) Type made in imitation of handwriting.

käsienpesu

(euphemism, _, slang) An area to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.

käsiharmonikka

A musical instrument, like the various accordions, that is a member of the free-reed family of musical instruments, typically having buttons on both ends.

käsijarru

(mechanical engineering, automotive, railroading) The mechanism, particularly the locking hand-operated lever or foot-operated toggle lever in a motorcar or the hand-operated crank on a railcar, which is used to set and release such a brake.

käsikähmä

(especially, military, gaming) A battle fought at close range, (especially) one not involving ranged weapons; hand-to-hand combat; brawling.

käsikärry

A cart designed to be pulled or pushed by hand (as opposed to with a beast of burden.)

käsikärryt

A cart designed to be pulled or pushed by hand (as opposed to with a beast of burden.)

käsikäyttöinen

(of an activity) Performed with the hands.

käsikirja

A topically organized book of reference on a certain field of knowledge, regardless of size, but archetypally one to be kept readily at hand.

käsikirjoittaja

One who writes for the screen, who writes drama for film or television; especially a professional who knows the conventions appropriate to such work.

käsikirjoitus

A manuscript in the author’s handwriting.

käsikopelo

The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.

käsikosketus

(countable, Australian rules football) An act of passing a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.

käsilaukku

(now, rare) A small bag carried in the hand, used either when travelling or to carry tools for a specific job. [from 19th c.]

käsillä

That which is accessible; that which is within one's reach or ability.

käsillä oleva

Such as one may avail oneself of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose.

käsilläseisonta

A headstand.

käsimoniste

A printed sheet such as a leaflet or pamphlet, or a worksheet, that is given out free of charge (usually by hand) for a certain use, for example as an advertisement or for information.

käsin

By hand.

käsin kirjoitettu

Written in the author’s own handwriting.