Seeing as dialectal variants like maarain, maarama exist, the word is probably an alteration of earlier *vadarma or *vabarma (see vadelma) by analogy with muurain (“cloudberry”) (< *mu(u)rama), possibly inspired by the regular loss (generally) of medial *b, *d, *g into *vaarma.
vaarain (dialectal)
| Inflection of vaarain (Kotus type 33/kytkin, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | vaarain | vaaraimet | |
| genitive | vaaraimen | vaaraimien vaarainten | |
| partitive | vaarainta | vaaraimia | |
| illative | vaaraimeen | vaaraimiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | vaarain | vaaraimet | |
| accusative | nom. | vaarain | vaaraimet |
| gen. | vaaraimen | ||
| genitive | vaaraimen | vaaraimien vaarainten | |
| partitive | vaarainta | vaaraimia | |
| inessive | vaaraimessa | vaaraimissa | |
| elative | vaaraimesta | vaaraimista | |
| illative | vaaraimeen | vaaraimiin | |
| adessive | vaaraimella | vaaraimilla | |
| ablative | vaaraimelta | vaaraimilta | |
| allative | vaaraimelle | vaaraimille | |
| essive | vaaraimena | vaaraimina | |
| translative | vaaraimeksi | vaaraimiksi | |
| abessive | vaaraimetta | vaaraimitta | |
| instructive | — | vaaraimin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
vaarain