luokka

Originally a variant of luokki. The meaning has abstracted from "shaft bow" → "group of things (attached with a shaft bow)" → "group, class". Doublet of lenkki and linkki.

• IPA^(key): /ˈluo̯kːɑ/, [ˈluo̞̯kːɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -uokːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): luok‧ka

luokka

1. class (group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes)
2. class, social class (social grouping, based on job, wealth, inheritance etc.)

   Synonym: yhteiskuntaluokka

   luokkataistelu ― class struggle

3. class (category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation)

   turistiluokka ― economy class

   ensimmäinen luokka ― first class

4. grade (level of pre-collegiate education)

   jättää luokalle ― to retain (hold back a student)

   jäädä luokalle ― to be retained (required to repeat a year)

   Hän on kahdeksannella luokalla.

   He's in the eighth grade

5. class, school class (group of pre-college students who regularly attend lectures together)
6. class (group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher)
7. (by extension) classroom

   Synonym: luokkahuone

8. (statistics) class (grouping of data values in an interval)
9. (mathematics) class (collection of sets definable by a shared property)
10. (taxonomy) class (below phylum and above order)
11. (programming) class (set of objects possibly differing in state but not behavior)
12. Alternative form of luokki (“shaft bow”).
13. (by extension, dialectal) anything bent over

    Ne oli ne puut ihan luokalla.

    Those trees were all bent over.

• “luokka”, 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 2023-07-03