Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
tappaa
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Remove ads
Finnish
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *tappadak, from Proto-Uralic *tappa-. Cognates include Erzya тапамс (tapams).
Pronunciation
Verb
tappaa
- (transitive) to kill, slay
- Synonyms: surmata, ottaa hengiltä, lopettaa (“to put down (an animal)”), (idiom) ottaa hengiltä, laittaa kylmäksi, päästää päiviltä, (colloquial) nirhata, listiä, niitata, (euphemism) likvidoida, (slang) hoitaa, hoidella
- Hänet tapettiin.
- He was killed.
- (dialectal, Western Finnish, transitive) to thresh
- Synonym: puida
Conjugation
Derived terms
adjectives
compounds
See also
Further reading
- “tappaa”, 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 3 July 2023
Anagrams
Remove ads
Ingrian
Etymology 1
From Proto-Finnic *tappadak. Cognates include Finnish tappaa and Estonian tappa.
Pronunciation
Verb
tappaa
- (transitive) to kill
- (transitive) to slaughter
- (transitive) to beat
- (transitive) to thresh (separate grain from the straw)
Conjugation
Synonyms
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
Noun
tappaa
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
Verb
tappaa
References
- Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 572
Remove ads
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads