uhri
Appearance
See also: Uhři
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]uhri
- victim (person who is harmed)
- casualty (person suffering from injuries or who has been killed due to an accident or through an act of violence)
- Synonym: kuolonuhri (“fatality, person killed”)
- victim, mark, stiff, pigeon, patsy (person who is deceived)
- Mies joutui huijauksen uhriksi.
- The man fell victim to a scam.
- casualty (person suffering from injuries or who has been killed due to an accident or through an act of violence)
- sacrifice, offering (something sacrificed)
- Synonym: uhrilahja
- uhrilammas ― sacrificial lamb
- (figuratively) martyr (one who suffers greatly and/or constantly)
- Synonym: marttyyri
- Stan on niveltulehduksen uhri, Chris Stanin loputtoman valituksen uhri.
- Stan is a martyr to arthritis, Chris a martyr to Stan's endless moaning about it.
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of uhri (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | uhri | uhrit | |
| genitive | uhrin | uhrien | |
| partitive | uhria | uhreja | |
| illative | uhriin | uhreihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | uhri | uhrit | |
| accusative | nom. | uhri | uhrit |
| gen. | uhrin | ||
| genitive | uhrin | uhrien | |
| partitive | uhria | uhreja | |
| inessive | uhrissa | uhreissa | |
| elative | uhrista | uhreista | |
| illative | uhriin | uhreihin | |
| adessive | uhrilla | uhreilla | |
| ablative | uhrilta | uhreilta | |
| allative | uhrille | uhreille | |
| essive | uhrina | uhreina | |
| translative | uhriksi | uhreiksi | |
| abessive | uhritta | uhreitta | |
| instructive | — | uhrein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Alternative forms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]compounds
- ihmisuhri
- juomauhri
- kiitosuhri
- kuolonuhri
- lepytysuhri
- messu-uhri
- polttouhri
- rikosuhri
- siviiliuhri
- sovitusuhri
- syntiuhri
- teurasuhri
- uhrialttari
- uhrieläin
- uhrihalkeama
- uhrihevonen
- uhrihierarkia
- uhrikaritsa
- uhrikivi
- uhrikuolema
- uhrilahja
- uhrilammas
- uhrilehto
- uhriluku
- uhrilähde
- uhrimenot
- uhrimetalli
- uhrimieli
- uhrinuotio
- uhripaikka
- uhripappi
- uhripiste
- uhripuu
- uhripöytä
- uhrisavu
- uhritoimitus
- uhrivalmis
- veriuhri
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “uhri”, 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