kaaren

From Proto-Finnic *kaarneh, from Proto-Uralic *karne, see there for further etymology. Cognates include Finnish kaarne, Livonian kārnaz, Võro kaarna, kaarnas, kaarnõq, kaarnõh, Ingrian kaarne, Veps karniš (“crow”), Karelian koarneh, Livvi kuarneh; Northern Sami gáranas, Inari Sami káránâs, Skolt Sami käärnõs (from Proto-Samic *kārënës); Erzya кренч (kŕenč), Moksha кранч (kranč), Eastern Mari курныж (kurnyž), Udmurt кырныж (kyrnyž), Komi-Zyrian кырныш (kyrnyš), Tundra Nenets харна, харӈэˮ, Mator [script needed] (karguj). Phonetically similar terms for corvids can be found in Indo-European languages, compare Latin corvus (“raven”), cornix (“crow”), Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē, “crow”). Possibly onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːren/, [ˈkɑːren]
• Rhymes: -ɑːren
• Hyphenation: kaa‧ren

kaaren (genitive kaarna, partitive kaarnat)

1. raven (Corvus corax)
   1. A large, all black metallic bird native to the northern hemisphere.

      Kaaren kaarna silma välja ei noki. (Estonian proverb)

      A raven won't pick out the eye of another raven.

      Synonyms: ronk, (dialectal) korp

   2. (figuratively) A greedy person.

• ronk
• korp (dialectal)

• kaarenmust
• kaarnakarva
• kaarnakivi
• kaarnapoeg

• kaaren in Sõnaveeb

kaaren

1. genitive singular of kaari

• arkena, kaarne