kirja

kirja

1. genitive singular of kiri
2. partitive singular of kiri
3. illative singular of kiri

From Proto-Finnic *kirja. Originally meant something like "carved mark or decoration"^[1] or "embroidered decoration", and some derived terms get their meaning from these former senses (e.g. kirjonta (“embroidery”)). The modern sense developed after the introduction of writing and has developed somewhat differently in related languages (compare e.g. Estonian kiri (“writing, letter”)).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkirjɑ/, [ˈk̟irjɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -irjɑ
• Syllabification^(key): kir‧ja
• Hyphenation^(key): kir‧ja

kirja

1. book (collection of sheets of paper bound together containing printed or written material)
2. book (long work fit for publication)
3. book (major division of a long work)
4. book (record of betting)
5. quire (twenty-five, or rarely twenty-four, sheets of paper of the same size and quality)
6. (in compounds) document

• “kirja”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

• IPA^(key): /ˈcʰɪrja/
• Rhymes: -ɪrja

kirja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative kirjaði, supine kirjað)

1. alternative form of kyrja

From Proto-Finnic *kirja. Cognates include Finnish kirja and Estonian kiri.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈkirjɑ/, [ˈkiri]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈkirjɑ/, [ˈkirjɑ]
• Rhymes: -irj, -irjɑ
• Hyphenation: kir‧ja

kirja

1. book
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 36:

     Yhteiset meil ollaa riissat - perot, krantossit ja kirjat, veel i tetretit i kartat, stoolit, lavvat, sumat, partat, klaassan seinät, klaassan maa.

     We have shared objects - pen tips, pencils and books, also notebooks and maps, chairs, benches, bags, desks, walls of the classroom and the floor of the classroom.

2. letter (written message)

   kirja kottii ― a letter home

3. pattern (on a traditional piece of clothing)

• Fedor Tumansky (1790) “кирїа”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 685
• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[2], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 59
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 167
• Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎^[3], →ISBN, page 52

From Proto-Finnic *kirja. Cognate to Finnish kirja and Estonian kiri.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkir(ʲ)jɑ/
• Hyphenation: kir‧ja

kirja (genitive kirjan, partitive kirjua)

1. letter
2. pattern
3. (North Karelian) book

• (book): (North Karelian, dialectal) kniika, (South Karelian) kniiga

• A. V. Punzhina (1994) “kir'ja”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
• Pertti Virtaranta, Raija Koponen (2009) “kirja”, in Marja Torikka, editor, Karjalan kielen sanakirja‎^[4], Helsinki: Kotus, →ISSN