murha

English

Etymology

From Assamese মুঢ়া (murha).

Noun

murha (plural murhas)

  1. A stool made of woven cane, used in northeast India.
    • 2000, Sanjoy Hazarika, Rites of Passage:
      Keramat brought out a murha, a low stool made of woven cane. He squatted on the earth beside me.
    • 2010, Jahnavi Barua, Rebirth, Penguin 2010, p. 154:
      There is only a murha in the opposite corner and I do not want to be uncomfortable now. I lower myself into my father's chair.
    • 2011, Deepika Phukan, translating Arupa Patangia Kalita, The Story of Felanee:
      She had recently learned to make cane murhas and now, every evening, when she returned from the market, she would first finish her cooking and then make murhas while Moni finished his studies.

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Finnish

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Proto-Norse [script needed] (*murþa-), from Proto-Germanic *murþą (for *þ > *h, compare huopa), SSA however instead opines that the word may be a back-derivation from murhe, with influence in meaning from the Germanic word.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈmurhɑ/, [ˈmurhɑ]
  • Rhymes: -urhɑ
  • Syllabification(key): mur‧ha

Noun

murha

  1. (law) murder; first-degree murder (US)

Usage notes
  • See usage notes under tappo.

Declension
Inflection of murha (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation)
nominative murha murhat
genitive murhan murhien
partitive murhaa murhia
illative murhaan murhiin
singular plural
nominative murha murhat
accusative nom. murha murhat
gen. murhan
genitive murhan murhien
murhainrare
partitive murhaa murhia
inessive murhassa murhissa
elative murhasta murhista
illative murhaan murhiin
adessive murhalla murhilla
ablative murhalta murhilta
allative murhalle murhille
essive murhana murhina
translative murhaksi murhiksi
instructive — murhin
abessive murhatta murhitta
comitative — murhineen
Possessive forms of murha (type koira)
possessor singular plural
1st person murhani murhamme
2nd person murhasi murhanne
3rd person murhansa

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Compounds

See also

References
  1. Itkonen, Erkki; Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000) Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words]‎ (in Finnish), [note: linked online version also includes some other etymological sources], Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN

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