karju

karju

1. partitive plural of kari

Either karjua (“to roar, bellow”) +‎ -u or karja (“livestock”) +‎ -u.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑrju/,
• Rhymes: -ɑrju
• Syllabification^(key): kar‧ju

karju

1. boar ((uncastrated) male pig)

• karja
• emakko
• porsas
• sika

• “karju”, 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 2023-07-01

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑrjuˣ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑrju
• Syllabification^(key): kar‧ju

karju

1. inflection of karjua:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

• jukra, kurja

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑrju/
• Rhymes: -ɑrju
• Hyphenation: kar‧ju

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karju

1. coarse, coarse-grained
2. big, massive; large-scale
3. firm, hard

From Proto-Finnic *karja (compare Finnish karja, Livonian kōŗa), probably borrowed from Proto-Germanic *harjaz (“army”).

karju

1. herd, flock

• Tatjana Boiko (2019) Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN, pages 95-96