harmaa

• harmaja (dialectal)
• harmava (dialectal)

From Proto-Finnic *harmaga, borrowed from Proto-Baltic *śirˀmas (compare Lithuanian širmas). Erzya шерже (šerže, “hoar, gray hair”) borrowed from the same root.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑrmɑː/, [ˈhɑ̝rmɑ̝ː]
• Rhymes: -ɑrmɑː
• Hyphenation^(key): har‧maa

harmaa (comparative harmaampi, superlative harmain)

1. grey, gray (colour)
2. grey, gray, dreary, gloomy
3. grey, gray (having an indistinct or disputed quality)

   harmaa alue ― grey area

   harmaa talous ― literally "the grey economy"; of economic activity carried out off the books

• Kven: harmaja

harmaa

1. The colour grey/gray.
2. (colloquial, in the plural) a gray suit of clothes; especially a Finnish army uniform

• “harmaa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• amhara, hamara

 

From Proto-Finnic *harmaga. Cognates include Finnish harmaa and dialectal Estonian arm.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑrmɑː/, [ˈhɑrmɑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑrmɑː/, [ˈhɑrmɑː]
• (Hevaha) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑrmɑː/, [ˈhɑrmɑː]
• Rhymes: -ɑrmɑː
• Hyphenation: har‧maa

harmaa

1. grey

harmaa (comparative harmaamp)

1. grey
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 62:

     Kesäl ono ruskia. Talveel ono harmaa.

     In the summer it's brown. In the winter it's grey.

• halli (“grey-haired”)

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 47
• Arvo Laanest (1997) Isuri keele Hevaha murde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut, page 31