Rauma

Rauma

1. A city in Finland
2. A municipality of Møre og Romsdal, Norway

• Marau, Maura, amaru, marua, umara, umaraʾ, umarā

From rauma; see it for more.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɑu̯mɑ/, [ˈrɑ̝u̯mɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑumɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Rau‧ma

Rauma

1. Rauma, a city in Finland.
2. a Finnish surname

The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Rauma" is Raumalla. An exception to this rule is Vanha Rauma, which refers to the old portion of the city.

• → Swedish: Raumo

• Rauma is the 1856^th (tied with 4 other surnames) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 458 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• Häkkinen, Kaisa (2013). Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja. Helsinki: Sanoma Pro OY. →ISBN.

• maaru, rumaa

Rauma

1. A municipality of Møre og Romsdal, Norway

From the definite form of Old Norse Raum f, of uncertain origin. Also suggested to come from Raumá, from *raumr (“roaring waterfall”) +‎ á (“river”),[1] although not suggested by the modern pronunciation.

• IPA^(key): [¹rœʊ̯ː.mɐ̞]
• Rhymes: -œʊːma

Rauma f

1. A river and municipality of Romsdal district, Møre og Romsdal, Norway

• Romsdal(en)