jalopeura

Compound of jalo (“noble, i.e., king of the beasts”) +‎ peura (“deer; in a primitive sense, any beast of the forest”); one of the many words first known to have been written down by Mikael Agricola when translating the New Testament to Finnish in 16th century.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɑloˌpeu̯rɑ/, [ˈjɑ̝lo̞ˌpe̞u̯rɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -eurɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ja‧lo‧peu‧ra

jalopeura (archaic)

1. (biblical) lion
   • 1933/1938, Pyhä Raamattu [The Holy Bible], Helsinki: Suomen Pipliaseura, Pietarin ensimmäinen kirje (1 Peter) 5:8:

     Teidän vastustajanne, perkele, käy ympäri niinkuin kiljuva jalopeura, etsien, kenen hän saisi niellä

     (...) your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour

Often used together with the epithet kiljuva, as it appeared in the Finnish Bible up to the 1938 translation.

• leijona

• “jalopeura”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02