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vaara.

danger, risk, peril, hazard, jeopardy

5 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈʋɑːrɑ/[ˈʋɑ̝ːrɑ̝]
  1. danger, risk, peril, hazard, jeopardy

    asettaa vaaraan
    olla vaaraksi yhteiskunnalle
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Late Old Swedish fahra, fara (compare Swedish fara), itself from Middle Low German vāre, from Proto-Germanic *fērō (“danger”) (compare Dutch gevaar, German Gefahr).

intj/ˈʋɑːrɑ/[ˈʋɑ̝ːrɑ̝]
  1. danger, warning (on signs)

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Late Old Swedish fahra, fara (compare Swedish fara), itself from Middle Low German vāre, from Proto-Germanic *fērō (“danger”) (compare Dutch gevaar, German Gefahr).

noun/ˈʋɑːrɑ/[ˈʋɑ̝ːrɑ̝]
  1. A large, forested hill (as opposed to fell), particularly in Eastern and Northern Finland as well as Karelia, and more widely in Fennoscandia.

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Sami (compare Northern Sami várri (“mountain”)), itself probably a cognate of Finnish vuori (“mountain”).

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