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harmaa

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Finnish

Alternative forms

  • harmaja (dialectal)
  • harmava (dialectal)

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *harmaga, borrowed from Proto-Baltic *śirˀmas (compare Lithuanian širmas). Erzya шерже (šerže, hoar, gray hair) borrowed from the same root.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhɑrmɑː/, [ˈhɑ̝rmɑ̝ː]
  • Rhymes: -ɑrmɑː
  • Syllabification(key): har‧maa
  • Hyphenation(key): har‧maa

Adjective

harmaa (comparative harmaampi, superlative harmain)

  1. grey, gray (colour)
  2. grey, gray, dreary, gloomy
  3. grey, gray (having an indistinct or disputed quality)
    harmaa aluegrey area
    harmaa talousshadow economy, economic activity "off the books" (literally, “the grey economy”)

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...
More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...

Derived terms

compounds

Descendants

  • Kven: harmaja

See also

Colors in Finnish · värit (layout · text)
     valkoinen      harmaa      musta
             punainen; verenpunainen              oranssi; ruskea              keltainen; kermankeltainen, kermanvalkoinen
             limetinvihreä              vihreä              mintunvihreä, minttu; tummanvihreä
             syaani; sinivihreä              taivaansininen, asuuri              sininen
             violetti; indigosini, indigo              magenta; purppura              vaaleanpunainen, pinkki

Noun

harmaa

  1. The colour grey/gray.
  2. (colloquial, in the plural) a gray suit of clothes; especially a Finnish army uniform

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...
More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...

Further reading

Anagrams

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Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *harmaga. Cognates include Finnish harmaa and dialectal Estonian arm.

Pronunciation

Noun

harmaa

  1. grey

Adjective

harmaa (comparative harmaamp)

  1. grey
    • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 62:
      Kesäl ono ruskia. Talveel ono harmaa.
      In the summer it's brown. In the winter it's grey.

Declension

More information Declension of (type 13/harmaa, no gradation), singular ...

Derived terms

See also

  • halli (grey-haired)

References

  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 47
  • Arvo Laanest (1997), Isuri keele Hevaha murde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut, page 31
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