Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

kuningatar

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Remove ads

Finnish

Etymology

kuningas (king) + -tar (-ess). Coined by Finnish explorer, historian and author Carl Axel Gottlund in 1828. The cooking sense originally from kuningatarhillo, making it a semantic loan from Swedish drottning (from drottningsylt)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkuniŋːɑtɑr/, [ˈkuniŋˌŋɑ̝t̪ɑ̝r]
  • Rhymes: -ŋɑtɑr
  • Syllabification(key): ku‧nin‧ga‧tar
  • Hyphenation(key): ku‧nin‧ga‧tar

Noun

Finnish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia fi

kuningatar

  1. queen (female monarch, or wife of a king)
    1. (figurative) queen (something or someone outstanding or supreme among its kind)
      Matematiikka on tieteiden kuningatar.
      Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.
    2. queen (reproductive female animal in a hive)
    3. (chess) queen
    4. (card games) queen
  2. (cooking, compounds) A flavour made of raspberries and bilberries; similar to English summer berries.
    kuningatarhillobilberry-raspberry jam
    kuningatarhyytelöbilberry-raspberry jelly
    kuningatartorttubilberry-raspberry tart
    kuningatarjogurttibilberry-raspberry flavoured yoghurt

Declension

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

Synonyms

  • (female monarch or wife of a king): naiskuningas (archaic), kuninkaanna (archaic), drotninki (obsolete, literary)

Derived terms

See also

Chess pieces in Finnish · šakkinappula, shakkinappula (layout · text)
♚ ♛ ♜ ♝ ♞ ♟
kuningas kuningatar torni lähetti ratsu sotilas

References

  • kuningatar”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004, retrieved 2 July 2023
  • Ruppel, Klaas, editor (2021–2023), Suomen etymologinen sanakirja [Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 72) (in Finnish), Kotimaisten kielten keskus, →ISSN
Remove ads

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads