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• IPA^(key): /ˈilmɑ/, [ˈilmɑ]
• Rhymes: -ilmɑ
• Hyphenation: il‧ma

From Proto-Finnic *ilman, possibly the genitive singular of ilm.^[1]

ilma (not comparable)

1. free of charge, on the house

   Synonyms: muidu, priilt, tasuta

ilma

1. without [with abessive]

   Ilma prillideta ei näe ma midagi.

   I can't see anything without my glasses.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ilma

1. genitive/partitive/illative singular of ilm

• ilma in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “ilma”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

From Proto-Finnic *ilma (“air, sky, weather”), from Proto-Uralic *ilma (“sky, weather, god”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈilmɑ/, [ˈilmɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ilmɑ
• Syllabification^(key): il‧ma
• Hyphenation^(key): il‧ma

ilma

1. air
   • 1849 Kalevala (Translation 1988 by Eino Friberg) 1:107-112:

     Olipa impi, ilman tyttö,

     She, the virgin of the air

2. weather

   Synonym: sää

   Millainen ilma tänään on?

   How is the weather today?

• keli

• “ilma”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• Mali, Mila, lima, mali

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɪlma/
• Rhymes: -ɪlma

ilma (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative ilmaði, supine ilmað)

1. (intransitive) to smell pleasant, to give off a pleasant scent

   Synonym: anga

• ilmandi (“pleasant-smelling”)
• ilmur (“pleasant scent”)

From Proto-Finnic *ilma, from Proto-Uralic *ilma. Cognates include Finnish ilma and Estonian ilm.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈilmɑ/, [ˈiɫm]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈilmɑ/, [ˈiɫmɑ]
• Rhymes: -ilm, -ilmɑ
• Hyphenation: il‧ma

ilma

1. weather

   • 1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[2], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 29:

     Egle oli hyvä ilma.

     Yesterday the weather was good.

Declension of ilma (type 3/kana, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	ilma	ilmat
genitive	ilman	ilmoin
partitive	ilmaa	ilmoja
illative	ilmaa	ilmoi
inessive	ilmaas	ilmois
elative	ilmast	ilmoist
allative	ilmalle	ilmoille
adessive	ilmaal	ilmoil
ablative	ilmalt	ilmoilt
translative	ilmaks	ilmoiks
essive	ilmanna, ilmaan	ilmoinna, ilmoin
exessive1)	ilmant	ilmoint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• (obsolete) sää

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈilmɑ/, [ˈiɫm]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈilmɑ/, [ˈiɫmɑ]
• Rhymes: -ilm, -ilmɑ
• Hyphenation: il‧ma

ilma (+ partitive)

1. alternative form of ilman

   • 1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 7:

     Määk siä șkouluu - sanoi Semon däädä, ilma sinnua saamma aikoo.

     Go to school - said uncle Semon, we'll get by without you.

• Fedor Tumansky (1790), “има ^[sic]”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 677
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 91
• Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014), Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎^[3], →ISBN, page 15

Regional variants of ilma

North Karelian (Viena)	ilma
South Karelian (Tver)	ilma

From Proto-Finnic *ilma. Cognates include Finnish ilma and Veps ilʹm.

• IPA^(key): /ˈilmɑ/
• Hyphenation: il‧ma

ilma (genitive ilman, partitive ilmua)

1. (North Karelian or dialectal) air
2. (North Karelian or dialectal) synonym of šiä (“weather”)
3. (South Karelian or dialectal) synonym of muailma (“world”)

Viena Karelian declension of ilma (type 4/kala, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	ilma	ilmat
genitive	ilman	ilmojen
partitive	ilmua	ilmoja
illative	ilmah	ilmoih
inessive	ilmašša	ilmoissa
elative	ilmašta	ilmoista
adessive	ilmalla	ilmoilla
ablative	ilmalta	ilmoilta
translative	ilmakši	ilmoiksi
essive	ilmana	ilmoina
comitative	—	ilmoineh
abessive	ilmatta	ilmoitta
prolative	—	—
instructive	—	ilmoin

Tver Karelian declension of ilma (type 4/kala no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	ilma	ilmat
genitive	ilman	ilmoin
partitive	ilmua	ilmoida
illative	ilmah	ilmoih
inessive	ilmašša	ilmoissa
elative	ilmašta	ilmoista
adessive	ilmalla	ilmoilla
ablative	ilmalda	ilmoilda
translative	ilmakši	ilmoiksi
essive	ilmana	ilmoina
comitative	ilmanke	ilmoinke
abessive	ilmatta	ilmoitta
prolative	ilmačči	ilmoičči
instructive	—	ilmoin

Possessive forms of ilma
1st person	ilmani
2nd person	ilmaš
3rd person	ilmah
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

• (South Karelian) vozduha

• A. V. Punzhina (1994), “ilma”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
• P. Zaykov; L. Rugoyeva (1999), “ilma”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN
• Pertti Virtaranta; Raija Koponen (2009), “ilma”, in Marja Torikka, editor, Karjalan kielen sanakirja‎^[4], Helsinki: Kotus, →ISSN
• I. Novak; I. Komissarova (2019), Miun harpaukšet karielan kieleh, Periodika, →ISBN, page 172

From Arabic مَاء (māʔ), with fused definite article.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪl.ma/
• Rhymes: -ɪlma

ilma m (plural ilmijiet)

1. water

   ilma baħar ― sea water

   ilma ċar ― clear water

   ilma effervixxenti ― fizzy water

   ilma fin ― pure water

   ilma ġieri ― running water

   ilma ħelu ― fresh water

   ilma kiesaħ ― cold water

   ilma mbierek ― holy water

   ilma mieġi ― brackish water

   ilma qiegħed ― stagnant water

   ilma minerali ― mineral water

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Somali ilmo (“child(ren)”).

• IPA^(key): /ɪlmɐ/

ilma

1. son

From Proto-Finnic *ilman, possibly the genitive singular of ilm.

ilma

1. without

• ilmakäänüs

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from ilmaa according to the principles established by Wiktionary's editor community as described at Wiktionary:Votic entry guidelines or recent spelling standards of the language.

From Proto-Finnic *ilman. Compare Estonian ilma, Finnish ilman and Ingrian ilman.

• (Luutsa, Liivčülä) IPA^(key): /ˈilmɑː/, [ˈiɫmɑ]
• Rhymes: -ilmɑː
• Hyphenation: il‧ma

ilma

1. without [with partitive or (dialectal) abessive]

ilma

1. inflection of ilmõ:
   1. genitive singular
   2. partitive singular
   3. illative singular

• Hallap, V.; Adler, E.; Grünberg, S.; Leppik, M. (2012), “ilmaa”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language]‎^[5], 2nd edition, Tallinn