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tila

Pronunciation: /ˈtilɑ/

“tila” is a Finnish word. Its 13 meanings in English:

noun

  1. space, room, volume (for something to fit in or set aside for a specific purpose)
  2. space (area or volume occupied by or intended for a person or thing)
  3. premises, spaces (the area or volume considered as belonging to a particular building, structure, institution, etc.)
  4. stead (place or room which another person had, has, or might have)
  5. estate, real estate unit, tract, rural holding (a piece of land, owned and registered as such in the property register or cadastre, and thus with defined borders, that is located in a region (often rural) that has not had official land subdivision into lots, tontti, carried out within by a public entity)
  6. state, condition, situation, status (the way something is at any given moment, e.g. in terms of health or integrity)
  7. state (complete description of a system)
  8. mode (series of settings; set of rules; variation in gameplay)
  9. state (stable condition; set of parameters; values of these parameters)
  10. status (function of some instant messaging applications where a short message is displayed for a user)
  11. synonym of sija (“position, rank, place (in a competition, etc.)”)
  12. synonym of sija (“place, stead, where one belongs or is”)
  13. synonym of tilaisuus (“opportunity, chance”)

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tila (compare Ludian tila, Veps tila, dialectal Estonian tila), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *tilą (compare Old English til and German Ziel).

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