karja.
cattle (domesticated bovine animals) (sometimes with a specifier: nautakarja, lehmikarja)
Meaning & usage
cattle (domesticated bovine animals) (sometimes with a specifier: nautakarja, lehmikarja)
other domesticated animals kept for food (in this sense usually with a specifier: siipikarja, porokarja, etc.)
stock, livestock (farm animals; animals domesticated for cultivation collectively)
herd, flock
Sata teertä yhdessä karjassa.
wild animals used as food
metsän karja, Tapion karja
veden karja
Where this word comes from
From Proto-Finnic *karja (compare Estonian kari, Livonian kōŗa), probably borrowed from Proto-Germanic *harjaz (“army”) (compare Swedish här (“land army”), German Heer (“army”)). The original sense "army, forces" may survive in Karjala.
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