Raisa
See also: Räisä
English edit
Proper noun edit
Raisa
- A transliteration of the Russian female given name Раи́са (Raísa).
Anagrams edit
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
From the Russian saint's name Раи́са (Raísa), from Ancient Greek.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Raisa
- a female given name of Finnish speakers
- 1991, Elisabet Aho, Varjoja kuvastimessa, Karisto, →ISBN, page 65:
- Tummasilmä halusi lapselle kummallisen, venäläisen etunimen, Raisa tai mikä Tanja se olikaan. Jostakin vanhasta romaanista tyttö moisen keksi. Nestorille oli yhdentekevää mikä rääpäleen nimeksi pantaisiin.
- The dark-eyed girl wanted the child to have an odd, Russian first name, Raisa or Tanja or whatever it was. She got that from some old novel. Nestori didn't care a bit about what the runt would be called.
- A transliteration of the Russian female given name Раи́са (Raísa).
Declension edit
Inflection of Raisa (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Raisa | Raisat | ||
genitive | Raisan | Raisojen | ||
partitive | Raisaa | Raisoja | ||
illative | Raisaan | Raisoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Raisa | Raisat | ||
accusative | nom. | Raisa | Raisat | |
gen. | Raisan | |||
genitive | Raisan | Raisojen Raisainrare | ||
partitive | Raisaa | Raisoja | ||
inessive | Raisassa | Raisoissa | ||
elative | Raisasta | Raisoista | ||
illative | Raisaan | Raisoihin | ||
adessive | Raisalla | Raisoilla | ||
ablative | Raisalta | Raisoilta | ||
allative | Raisalle | Raisoille | ||
essive | Raisana | Raisoina | ||
translative | Raisaksi | Raisoiksi | ||
abessive | Raisatta | Raisoitta | ||
instructive | — | Raisoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Related terms edit
Statistics edit
- Raisa is the 336th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 1,312 female individuals (and as a middle name to 157 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Anagrams edit
Latvian edit
Etymology 1 edit
First recorded as a given name of Latvians in the end of the 19th century. From Russian Раи́са (Raísa).
Proper noun edit
Raisa f
- A transliteration of the Russian female given name Раи́са (Raísa).
- a female given name
Etymology 2 edit
Proper noun edit
Raisa f
- A respelling of the English surname Rice, applied to women.
Related terms edit
- Raiss (applied to men)