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karja.

cattle (domesticated bovine animals) (sometimes with a specifier: nautakarja, lehmikarja)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈkɑrjɑ/[ˈkɑ̝rjɑ̝]
  1. cattle (domesticated bovine animals) (sometimes with a specifier: nautakarja, lehmikarja)

  2. other domesticated animals kept for food (in this sense usually with a specifier: siipikarja, porokarja, etc.)

  3. stock, livestock (farm animals; animals domesticated for cultivation collectively)

  4. herd, flock

    rare
    Sata teertä yhdessä karjassa.
  5. wild animals used as food

    figuratively · rare
    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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