vaippa
Pronunciation: /ˈʋɑi̯pːɑ/
“vaippa” is a Finnish word. Its 9 meanings in English:
noun
- diaper (US), nappy (UK), napkin (South Africa) (absorbent garment worn by a baby, or by someone who is incontinent)
- mantle, cloak, robe (piece of clothing)
- envelope (the physical separator between the conditioned and unconditioned environment of a building, including e.g. the roof or the ceiling of the top floor, base floor and outer walls)
- tunic (any covering, such as seed coat or the organ that covers a membrane)
- mantle (layer between Earth's core and crust)
- the lateral surface of a cylinder or cone
- envelope (mathematical curve, surface or higher-dimensional object)
- envelope (curve that bounds another curve or set of curves)
- sheath, jacket (protective or insulating cover)
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *vaippa (compare Estonian vaip, Votic vaippa (Kattila)), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *waipaz (compare Old Norse veipa (“a kind of piece of clothing”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍀𐍃 (waips, “crown, wreath”)).
Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “vaippa” there
More Finnish words
- vainuta
- vaipanvaihto
- vaipanvaihtopiste
- vaipanvaihtopöytä
- vaippaeläin
- vaippahousut
- vaippahyeena
- vaippaihottuma
About this dictionary
The Finnish dictionary on Glottosphere has 164,019 entries with a page. Browse the Finnish dictionary.
Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.