kaaren

== Estonian == === Etymology === From Proto-Finnic *karnëh, from Proto-Uralic *karne, see there for further etymology. Cognates include Finnish kaarne, Livonian kārnaz, Võro kaarna, kaarnas, kaarnõq, kaarnõh, Ingrian kaarne, Veps karniš (“crow”), Karelian koarneh, Livvi kuarneh; Northern Sami gáranas, Inari Sami káránâs, Skolt Sami käärnõs (from Proto-Samic *kārënës); Erzya кренч (krenč), Moksha кранч (kranč), Eastern Mari курныж (kurnyž), Udmurt кырныж (kyrnyž), Komi-Zyrian кырныш (kyrnyš), Tundra Nenets харна (xarna), харӈэˮ (xarŋeq), Mator [script needed] (karguj). Phonetically similar terms for corvids can be found in Indo-European languages, compare Latin corvus (“raven”), cornix (“crow”), Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē, “crow”). Possibly onomatopoeic. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkɑːren/, [ˈkɑːren] Rhymes: -ɑːren Hyphenation: kaa‧ren === Noun === kaaren (genitive kaarna, partitive kaarnat) raven (Corvus corax) Synonyms: ronk, (dialectal) korp (figuratively) a greedy person ==== Declension ==== ==== Compounds ==== === References === kaaren in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut) “kaaren”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009 == Finnish == === Noun === kaaren genitive singular of kaari === Anagrams === arkena, kaarne