taajama

taaja (“dense”) +‎ -ma; from the earlier concept taajaväkinen yhdyskunta (“densely-populated place”), compare Swedish tätort; coined by Finnish linguist Hannes Teppo in 1940.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːjɑmɑ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑːjɑmɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): taa‧ja‧ma

taajama

1. an urban area, a built-up area (i.e. a city, town or village) (per Finnish and Swedish definition a locality with at least 200 inhabitants and up to 200 metres between the buildings; if there is no chain of buildings closer than that to each other between two places, those places are not located in the same locality)

   Synonym: pokosta (dialectal)

• “taajama”, 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 2023-07-03