rihla
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from dialectal Swedish rifla (compare standard Swedish räffla, Danish riffel), from Low German riffel (compare archaic Dutch rijfelen), originally a frequentative derivation tracing back to Proto-Germanic *rīfaną.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
rihla
- (mining) riffle (cleat or groove in the bottom of a sluice box, causing the heavy particles such as pieces of gold to fall to the bottom of the box while the lighter particles are flushed away with water)
- rifle (one of the grooves inside the barrel of a firearm that improve its range and accuracy)
- (in the plural) rifling (grooves in a gun barrel)
- (in the plural) dress (system of furrows on the face of a millstone)
Declension edit
Inflection of rihla (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | rihla | rihlat | ||
genitive | rihlan | rihlojen | ||
partitive | rihlaa | rihloja | ||
illative | rihlaan | rihloihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | rihla | rihlat | ||
accusative | nom. | rihla | rihlat | |
gen. | rihlan | |||
genitive | rihlan | rihlojen rihlainrare | ||
partitive | rihlaa | rihloja | ||
inessive | rihlassa | rihloissa | ||
elative | rihlasta | rihloista | ||
illative | rihlaan | rihloihin | ||
adessive | rihlalla | rihloilla | ||
ablative | rihlalta | rihloilta | ||
allative | rihlalle | rihloille | ||
essive | rihlana | rihloina | ||
translative | rihlaksi | rihloiksi | ||
abessive | rihlatta | rihloitta | ||
instructive | — | rihloin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms edit
- (rifling): rihlaus
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “rihla”, 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