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kuningatar

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Finnish

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Etymology

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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

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

Noun

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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

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Inflection of kuningatar (Kotus type 32*C/sisar, tt-t gradation)
nominative kuningatar kuningattaret
genitive kuningattaren kuningattarien
kuningatarten
partitive kuningatarta kuningattaria
illative kuningattareen kuningattariin
singular plural
nominative kuningatar kuningattaret
accusative nom. kuningatar kuningattaret
gen. kuningattaren
genitive kuningattaren kuningattarien
kuningatarten
partitive kuningatarta kuningattaria
inessive kuningattaressa kuningattarissa
elative kuningattaresta kuningattarista
illative kuningattareen kuningattariin
adessive kuningattarella kuningattarilla
ablative kuningattarelta kuningattarilta
allative kuningattarelle kuningattarille
essive kuningattarena kuningattarina
translative kuningattareksi kuningattariksi
abessive kuningattaretta kuningattaritta
instructive kuningattarin
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of kuningatar (Kotus type 32*C/sisar, tt-t gradation)

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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compounds

See also

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Chess pieces in Finnish · šakkinappula, shakkinappula (layout · text)
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kuningas kuningatar torni lähetti ratsu sotilas

References

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  • kuningatar”, 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 2023-07-02
  • Ruppel, Klaas, editor (2021–2023), Suomen etymologinen sanakirja [Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 72)‎[2] (in Finnish), Kotimaisten kielten keskus, →ISSN