kenttä

Borrowing from Sami, ultimately from Proto-Samic *kientē.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkentːæ/, [ˈk̟e̞n̪t̪ːæ]
• Rhymes: -entːæ
• Syllabification^(key): kent‧tä

kenttä

1. field (land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country)
2. field (place where a battle is fought)

   Synonym: tanner

   1. (military, in compounds) field, modifier that the object is mobile and meant for use in the battlefield

      kenttäsairaala ― field hospital

3. (sports) A limited area where a game is played, a playing field (often combined with a modifier that defines the kind of playing field).
   1. (soccer) field, pitch
   2. (baseball, pesäpallo, American football) field
   3. (ice hockey) rink

      Synonym: kaukalo

   4. (basketball, tennis) court
   5. (golf) course
4. field (area reserved for playing a game)
5. field (realm of practical, direct or natural operation, contrasted with an office, classroom, or laboratory)
6. field (section of a form which is supposed to be filled with data)
7. (figuratively) Synonym of ala (“field (domain of study, knowledge, practice)”)
8. (figuratively) field, scope, domain
9. (informal) Ellipsis of lentokenttä (“airport, airfield”).
10. (colloquial) signal strength, coverage (such as of a mobile phone)
11. (geology) field (region containing a particular mineral)
12. (physics) field (physical phenomenon that pervades a region)
13. (heraldry, vexillology) field (background of the shield or flag)
14. (computing, object-oriented programming, databases) field (area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value; component of a database)
15. (television, video) Synonym of puolikuva (“field (in video)”)
16. (video games) level, stage

    Synonym: taso

• “kenttä”, 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

• kentät, kätten