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Harju.

Any of a number of places in Finland and Estonia.

5 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

name/ˈhɑrju/[ˈhɑ̝rju]

  1. Any of a number of places in Finland and Estonia.

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  2. Any of a number of places in Finland and Estonia. a quarter in Helsinki

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  3. a Finnish surname from landscape

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Where this word comes from

From harju (“esker”). The surname is partly from place names, but also popular in the Fennicization of surnames in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The name of the quarter in Helsinki is a semantic loan from Swedish Ås.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.