Ball

"Ball" in Finnish

hauskaa

(colloquial: a very enjoyable time)

höpinä

(mildly vulgar slang: nonsense)

kerä

(quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape)

kuula

(object, generally spherical, used for playing games)

kuula

(ballistics: a solid nonexplosive missile)

kuula

(mathematics: set of points in a metric space lying within a given distance of a given point)

lankakerä

(quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape)

muna

(in plural — slang — courage)

palli

(testicle — see also testicle)

pallo

(solid or hollow sphere)

pallo

(object, generally spherical, used for playing games)

pallo

(pinball: an opportunity to launch the ball into play)

pallo

(mathematics: set of points in a metric space lying within a given distance of a given point)

päkiä

(anatomy: ball of a foot)

roska

(mildly vulgar slang: nonsense)

syöttö

(cricket: a single delivery)

tanssiaiset

(formal dance)

väärä

(baseball: a pitch that falls outside the strike zone)

naida

(vulgar slang: have sexual intercourse with)

nussia

(vulgar slang: have sexual intercourse with)

panna

(vulgar slang: have sexual intercourse with)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.