naara
Appearance
See also: nåra
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown. Dialectal usage in the sense of "snare" is scarcely attested, which could suggest an origin from Swedish snara (“snare, noose”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]naara
- drag (device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body)
- Ellipsis of naara-ankkuri (“grapnel”).
Declension
[edit]Inflection of naara (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | naara | naarat | |
genitive | naaran | naarojen | |
partitive | naaraa | naaroja | |
illative | naaraan | naaroihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | naara | naarat | |
accusative | nom. | naara | naarat |
gen. | naaran | ||
genitive | naaran | naarojen naarain rare | |
partitive | naaraa | naaroja | |
inessive | naarassa | naaroissa | |
elative | naarasta | naaroista | |
illative | naaraan | naaroihin | |
adessive | naaralla | naaroilla | |
ablative | naaralta | naaroilta | |
allative | naaralle | naaroille | |
essive | naarana | naaroina | |
translative | naaraksi | naaroiksi | |
abessive | naaratta | naaroitta | |
instructive | — | naaroin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “naara”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Anagrams
[edit]Nafaanra
[edit]Noun
[edit]naara