kehrääjä

== Finnish == === Etymology === kehrätä (“to spin (yarn)”) +‎ -jä (“er”) === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkehræːjæ/, [ˈk̟e̞hræːjæ] Rhymes: -ehræːjæ Syllabification(key): keh‧rää‧jä Hyphenation(key): keh‧rää‧jä === Noun === kehrääjä spinner (one who spins yarn) (archaic) spinster (someone whose occupation was spinning thread) nightjar (any bird of the family Caprimulgidae) Eurasian nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus) (the only bird of this family that is found in Finland) (in the plural) Caprimulgidae (the taxonomic family of nightjars) moth (member of the insect superfamily Bombycoidea) ==== Declension ==== ==== Hyponyms ==== (Bombycoidea): kiitäjä (Sphingidae), kirjokehrääjä (Endromidae), maitiaiskehrääjä (Lemoniidae), riikinkukkokehrääjä (Saturniidae) ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “kehrääjä”, 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 2 July 2023