kova

Finnish

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Definitions
  • hard of an object, resistant to pressure
  • strict, harsh, severe, unfriendly, hard, stern, brutal of behavior or character
  • tough, hard demanding a lot of effort to endure
  • strong, hard, heavy, severe having a high impact or influence, often translated as the adverb very in translating an accompanying noun as an adjective
  • loud
  • live of ammunition
  • high, great, ambitious, remarkable
  • eager, devoted
  • tough rowdy or rough
  • hard, hardworking
  • excellent, great, well-known
  • (physics) hard of material: having the capability of being a permanent magnet
  • (finance) unregulated, market-rate, unsubsidized, hard
  • (of light) harsh, hard intensive and creating disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in colour or shading
  • (of water) hard high on dissolved calcium and other minerals
  • (phonetics) hard, unvoiced pronounced without using the vocal cords
  • (vulgar) hard of a man, sexually aroused
  • (pornography) hard, hardcore

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *kova.

Origin

Proto-Finnic

*kova

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