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erä

Pronunciation: /ˈeræ/

“erä” is a Finnish word. Its 17 meanings in English:

noun

  1. batch (quantity of anything produced at one operation)
  2. lot (separate portion; a number of things taken collectively)
  3. installment/instalment (one of the portions of a debt or sum of money that is paid at regular intervals)
  4. item, entry, accounting entry (formal record in bookkeeping that documents a transaction)
  5. period
  6. half
  7. quarter or half, depending on rules applied
  8. round
  9. set
  10. game
  11. heat
  12. chukker
  13. end
  14. time, occasion
  15. hunting
  16. game, catch
  17. wilderness, especially some good for hunting

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *erä (compare Estonian ära (“away”)), from Proto-Finno-Ugric *erä (“apart”).

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