vangita

From vanki +‎ -ita.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑŋːitɑˣ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑŋːitɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): van‧gi‧ta

vangita (transitive)

1. to imprison, incarcerate, jail (put in prison; both in legal contexts and elsewhere)
2. to arrest, place under arrest, take into custody, apprehend, put in detention (both in legal contexts and elsewhere; put in detention before the final decision is made on a case, as a result of a court order)

   Near-synonym: pidättää

3. to capture (to reproduce convincingly)

   Hänen elokuvasovituksensa vangitsi alkuperäisen työn hengen.

   His film adaptation captured the spirit of the original work.

• (to arrest): pidättää and vangita can be used synonymously in general language, but in a legal context, pidättää means "to detain (to take into custody for the first time if the subject is suspected of a crime)", whereas vangita means "to arrest, (provisionally) imprison (for the time when the criminal investigation is conducted and the court has made a decision in the case)".

• kahlita

• “vangita”, 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 2023-07-04

• vaginat