Karelian

English

Etymology

From Karelia +‎ -an.

Adjective

Karelian (not comparable)

1. Of, or pertaining to, Karelia or its people, culture or language.

Synonyms

• Kareli

Derived terms

• Karelianness
• Karelian pasty
• Karelian pie

Translations

of, from, or pertaining to Karelia

• Armenian: կարելական (hy) (karelakan)
• Danish: karelsk
• French: carélien (fr)
• German: karelisch (de)
• Hungarian: karjalai, karél (hu)
• Irish: Cairéalach
• Italian: careliano (it)
• Polish: karelski (pl)
• Portuguese: carélio (pt), careliano
• Russian: каре́льский (ru) (karélʹskij)
• Slovak: karelský
• Swedish: karelsk (sv)

Noun

Karelian (plural Karelians)

1. Someone from Karelia.

Synonyms

• Kareli

Translations

Karelian person

• Armenian: կարել (hy) (karel)
• Danish: kareler c
• French: Carélien (fr) m, Carélienne (fr) f
• German: Karelier (de) m, Karelierin (de) f
• Hungarian: karjalai, karél (hu)
• Icelandic: Kirjáli m
• Ingrian: karjalain
• Irish: Cairéalach m
• Italian: careliano (it) m, careliana f
• Polish: Karel (pl) m, Karelka (pl) f
• Portuguese: carélio (pt) m, carélia f, careliano m, careliana f
• Romanian: carelian m, careliană f
• Russian: каре́л (ru) m (karél), каре́лка (ru) f (karélka)
• Slovak: Karelčan m
• Swedish: karelare c, karelska (sv) c (female), karel c

Proper noun

Karelian

1. A language closely related to Finnish, spoken in Karelia, Russia and Finland.

Translations

language

• Armenian: կարելերեն (hy) (kareleren)
• Basque: kareliera
• Belarusian: карэ́льская f (karélʹskaja)
• Breton: karelianeg m
• Catalan: carelià (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卡累里亞語／卡累里亚语 (Kǎléilǐyà yǔ)

• Czech: karelština (cs) f
• Danish: karelsk n
• Dutch: Karelisch (nl) n
• Estonian: karjala (et)
• Finnish: karjala (fi)
• French: carélien (fr) m
• Galician: carelio (gl) m
• German: Karelisch (de) n
• Hungarian: karjalai
• Icelandic: kirjálska f, karelska f, karelíska f
• Ingrian: karjala
• Irish: Cairéilis f
• Japanese: カレリア語 (ja) (Kareria-go)
• Karelian:

  Livvi-Karelian: karjala, karjalan kieli

  North Karelian: karjala, karjalan kieli

  Tver Karelian: kariela, karielan kieli

• Korean: 카리알라어 (Karialla'eo)
• Latvian: karēļu valoda f, karēļu
• Lithuanian: karelų kalba f, kareliškai
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: карел йылме (karel jylme)

  Western Mari: ? йӹлмӹ (? jÿlmÿ)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: karelsk m

  Nynorsk: karelsk m

• Polish: karelski (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: carélio (pt) m, kareliano m
• Romanian: carelă f
• Russian: каре́льский (ru) m (karélʹskij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: Karelijanski m

• Sorbian:

  Lower: karelšćina f

  Upper: karelšćina f

• Spanish: carelio m
• Swedish: karelska (sv) c
• Turkish: Kareli
• Ukrainian: карелія́нська f (karelijánsʹka)
• Votic: karja
• Walloon: Carelyin

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Karelian terms

Further reading

• Ethnologue entry for Karelian, krl ⁠