turnus

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turnus (plural turnuses)

1. Papilio glaucus, the eastern tiger swallowtail, a butterfly of eastern North America.
   • 1917, Marie Conway Oemler, Slippy McGee: Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man:

     The Turnus is perhaps the most beautiful of our butterflies […]

• u-turns, U-turns, unrust

turnus c (singular definite turnussen, plural indefinite turnusser)

1. change between tasks according to a fixed agreed schedule; shiftwork
   • 2013, Shani Boianjiu, Det evige folk har ingen frygt, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:

     ... de blev fanget efter at have stjålet hegnet, at ingen af de andre drenge kom tilbage til basen igen. Vores lille base afholdt fem dage lange træningsforløb hver måned for den deling, der tog turnussen rundt om Hebron og langs Hovedvej 433.

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   • 2014, Merete Junker, Pigen med ballonen, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:

     Eller tilhøjere profilerede job i NRK's hovedkvarter i Oslo. Men Kvisle blev stående. Han har selv tydeligt udbasuneret, at han er led og ked af turnussen. Led og ked af at løbe rundt. Led og ked af at måtte forholde sigtilny teknik. Hans hoveder ...

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• IPA^(key): /ˈturnus/
• Hyphenation: turn‧us

turnus

1. conditional of turni

• IPA^(key): [ˈturnuʃ]

turnus (plural turnusok)

1. turn

   Synonyms: forduló, menet

2. shift (change of workers)

   Synonym: műszak

• turnus in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

• IPA^(key): /ˈturnus/

turnus

1. conditional of turnar

Ultimately from English turnip. Compare dialectal Finnish turnus. See also Russian турнепс (turneps) and Swedish turnips.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈturnus/, [ˈturnŭz̠]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈturnus/, [ˈturnuʒ̥]
• (Hevaha) IPA^(key): /ˈturnus/, [ˈturnuʒ̥]
• Rhymes: -urnus
• Hyphenation: tur‧nus

turnus

1. turnip used for fodder
   • 1937, V. A. Tetjurev, translated by N. J. Molotsova, Loonnontiito oppikirja alkușkoulua vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 20:

     Nagreskapussalle, kumpaa veel kutsutaa kolrabiks, kasvaa vaa ympyrkäin, lihakas kotsena, kumpa voittiijaa nagrehen, lantun tali turnuksen juuree, mut itse assiaas tämä kotsena ei oo juuri, a ono paksuntunt vars, kumpa ain ono maan pääl.

     On the turnip cabbage, which is also called kohlrabi, grows a round, meaty cabbage stalk, which resembles a root of the turnip, swede or fodder turnip, but in reality this stalk isn't a root, but a thickened stem, which is always on the ground.

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 610
• Arvo Laanest (1997) Isuri keele Hevaha murde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut, page 204

Borrowed from German Turnus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtur.nus/
• Rhymes: -urnus
• Syllabification: tur‧nus

turnus m inan

1. spell, stay (period of time spent on a holiday, on a course, etc.)
2. camp, course (place where such a time is spent)
3. (colloquial) group, cohort, busload

• turnus in Polish dictionaries at PWN