The Finnish word for stalk is
varsi
Translations for stalk and their definitions
| varsi | |
| 1. n. The stalk of a plant. | |
| 2. n. The handle of many tools. In order to be called varsi, the handle needs to be longish in shape. An axe and a hammer have varsi, but a knife has kahva. | |
| 3. n. An arm in the sense of any structure that resembles a human arm. | |
| 4. n. The part of a boot or a sock which covers the leg or part of it. | |
| 5. n. A stem of a tobacco pipe, or a musical note. | |
| 6. n. (technology) Usually compounded with a defining beginning, a rod | |
| 7. n. As the last part of a compound word, refers to some parts of a human body (see related terms below). | |
| 8. n. (rare) The human body when discussed from a structural point of view, the figure. | |
| 9. n. As the last part of a compound word, refers to an area considered to be close to a waterway or a traffic route, a side. | |
| tien varsi, tienvarsi, joen varsi, jokivarsi, joenvarsi etc. | |
| 10. n. In cases referring to location, used like a postposition to refer to passing of time or a journey, along, during or in the course of; see: varressa, varresta, varteen, varrella, varrelta, varrelle. | |
| matkan varrella = along the road | |
| pitkän elämäni varrella = during my long life | |
| vuosien varrella = in the course of many years | |
| 11. n. As the first part of a compound word, indicates that the object is equipped with a stalk, an arm or similar. | |
| varsieväinen, varsijousi, varsiluuta |
| vaania | |
| 1. v. To stalk, lurk, prowl. |
| väijyä | |
| 1. v. To lurk. | |
| 2. v. To ambush, lie in ambush for. |
| runko | |
| 1. n. trunk (of a tree) | |
| 2. n. hull | |
| 3. n. body (of a car) | |
| 4. n. fuselage (of an airplane) |
| kaula | |
| 1. n. (anatomy) neck |
| tappi | |
| 1. n. peg (cylindrical wooden, metal etc. object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects) | |
| 2. n. peg (protrusion used to hang things on) | |
| 3. n. tap, spigot (pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask) | |
| 4. n. plug (any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole) | |
| 5. n. stopper, bung (object to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, a hole in a vessel etc.) | |
| Tarvitsemme tapin, tai vene uppoaa. | |
| We need a stopper or the boat will sink. | |
| 6. n. pin, dowel (cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts) | |
| 7. n. tenon | |
| 8. n. cone cell, short for tappisolu |
| ruoto | |
| 1. n. fishbone, bone (bone of a fish) | |
| 2. n. shaft, stem (main axis of a feather) | |
| 3. n. (informal) spine, chine (backbone, especially of an animal) |
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