punainen

From Proto-Finnic *punainën, equivalent to puna +‎ -inen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpunɑi̯nen/, [ˈpunɑ̝i̯ne̞n]

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• Rhymes: -unɑinen
• Syllabification^(key): pu‧nai‧nen
• Hyphenation^(key): pu‧nai‧nen

punainen (comparative punaisempi, superlative punaisin)

1. red

• The combining form is puna-; note that puna can also be used as a noun.

punainen

1. red (color)
2. (often in the plural) reds, red lights (traffic signal)

   ajaa päin punaisia ― to jump the red lights

3. (in the plural, politics, archaic) the socialists
4. (in the plural, historical) "Reds", in the Finnish civil war of 1918, the revolutionary side, as opposed to the valkoiset (“Whites”).

• (red traffic lights): punaiset valot, punaiset liikennevalot

• “punainen”, 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