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raja.

border, boundary, limit, line (line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions)

4 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈrɑjɑ/[ˈrɑ̝jɑ̝]
  1. border, boundary, limit, line (line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions)

    maan rajat
    kaupungin rajat
  2. limit, bound, confine (any other kind of restriction when likened to those bounding a geographical region, e.g. when a value must stay within a range)

  3. line (exterior limit of a figure)

  4. line (any line on the playfield which acts as a boundary or border within certain rules)

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Old East Slavic краи (krai) (genitive краꙗ (kraja), compare Russian край (kraj)), from Proto-Slavic *krajь. The same word was also borrowed into other Finnic languages, such as Estonian raja, Ingrian raja, Karelian raja, Ludian raja, Votic raja.

noun/ˈrɑjɑ/[ˈrɑ̝jɑ̝]
  1. a worn out object, something worn

    especially · in-compounds
Where this word comes from

From Proto-Finnic *raja (“worn out object”).

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