boksi

From English box, origin uncertain.

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• Rhymes: -oksi
• Hyphenation: bok‧si

boksi (present boksas, past boksis, future boksos, conditional boksus, volitive boksu)

1. (intransitive, boxing) to box, punch; strike with the fists.
   • 1928, L. L. Zamenhof, La Rabistoj [The Robbers], translation of Die Räuber by Friedrich Schiller:

     Sufiĉe da kuraĝo, por boksi sub minacanta pendingo kun la diablo mem pro mizera pekulo.

     Enough courage to box under a threatening gallows with the devil himself for a wretched sinner.

Conjugation of boksi

		present		past		future
		singular	plural	singular	plural	singular	plural
tense		boksas		boksis		boksos
active participle		boksanta	boksantaj	boksinta	boksintaj	boksonta	boksontaj
	acc.	boksantan	boksantajn	boksintan	boksintajn	boksontan	boksontajn
nominal active participle		boksanto	boksantoj	boksinto	boksintoj	boksonto	boksontoj
	acc.	boksanton	boksantojn	boksinton	boksintojn	boksonton	boksontojn
adverbial active participle		boksante		boksinte		boksonte
		infinitive	boksi	imperative	boksu	conditional	boksus

From English box.

• IPA^(key): /ˈboksi/,
• Rhymes: -oksi
• Hyphenation^(key): bok‧si

boksi (informal)

1. box
2. box set (related recordings placed in a box to be sold as a unit)
3. studio, room (small apartment or room, often rented for temporary living)

• (box): laatikko
• (residence): asunto (“residence”); yksiö (“studio”); huone (“room”); (informal) kämppä, luukku (“residence”)

• “boksi”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (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

Borrowed from Danish boks.

boksi (plural boksit)

1. safe
2. box

Borrowed from English box.

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boksi class IX (plural boksi class X)

1. box

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