rihla

Borrowed from dialectal Swedish rifla (compare standard Swedish räffla, Danish riffel), from Low German riffel (compare archaic Dutch rijfelen), originally a frequentative derivation tracing back to Proto-Germanic *rīfaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrihlɑ/, [ˈriçlɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ihlɑ
• Syllabification^(key): rih‧la
• Hyphenation^(key): rih‧la

rihla

1. (mining) riffle (cleat or groove in the bottom of a sluice box, causing the heavy particles such as pieces of gold to fall to the bottom of the box while the lighter particles are flushed away with water)
2. rifle (one of the grooves inside the barrel of a firearm that improve its range and accuracy)
3. (in the plural) rifling (grooves in a gun barrel)
4. (in the plural) dress (system of furrows on the face of a millstone)

• (rifling): rihlaus

• “rihla”, 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 3 July 2023