Nokia

See also: nokia

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈnɒ.ki.ə/, /ˈnɒ.kjə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈnɔ.ki.ə/, /ˈnɑ.ki.ə/, /ˈnoʊ.ki.ə/
  • Rhymes: (UK) -ɒkiə, (US) -oʊkiə

Proper noun

Nokia

  1. A town and municipality of Finland near Tampere.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

Nokia (plural Nokias)

  1. A phone produced by the Nokia company.
    • 2011, Mark Abernethy, Golden Serpent, →ISBN, page 92:
      Mac turned to the bed and pulled a handful of Nokias from the bag. 'We need those charged,' said Mac as he headed off to find the communal shower block.

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Finnish

Etymology

Believed to be connected with the word noki (soot), which is of the same root as *nois meaning a black fur animal, most likely beaver. Nokia might thus have referred to a place where beavers live.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnokiɑ/, [ˈno̞kiɑ]
  • Rhymes: -okiɑ
  • Syllabification(key): No‧ki‧a

Proper noun

Nokia

  1. Nokia (a town and municipality of Finland)
  2. Nokia (company and brand name; nowadays known for its mobile phones and networks, formerly for forest, rubber and electrotechnical industry)

Declension

The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used with this place name when talking about location; for example, "in Nokia" is Nokialla.

Inflection of Nokia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative Nokia
genitive Nokian
partitive Nokiaa
illative Nokiaan
singular plural
nominative Nokia
accusative nom. Nokia
gen. Nokian
genitive Nokian
partitive Nokiaa
inessive Nokiassa
elative Nokiasta
illative Nokiaan
adessive Nokialla
ablative Nokialta
allative Nokialle
essive Nokiana
translative Nokiaksi
instructive
abessive Nokiatta
comitative
Possessive forms of Nokia (type kulkija)
possessor singular plural
1st person Nokiani Nokiamme
2nd person Nokiasi Nokianne
3rd person Nokiansa

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German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnoːki̯a/, [-.ki.ä], [-.kjä]

Proper noun

Nokia n (proper noun, genitive Nokias or (optionally with an article) Nokia)

  1. Nokia (a town and municipality of Pirkanmaa, Finland)
  2. Nokia (company)

Noun

Nokia n (strong, genitive Nokias or Nokia, plural Nokias or Nokia)

  1. Nokia (phone of that company)
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