Curl

"Curl" in Finnish

kierre

(spin making the trajectory curve)

kierre

(curling: movement)

kihara

(curving lock of hair)

kihara

(curved stroke or shape)

loimukuvio

(music: light and dark figure seen in wood)

polte

(plant disease)

pumppaus

(weightlifting: type of exercise)

roottori

(vector field denoting rotationality of a given vector field)

roottori

(mathematics: vector operator)

aallottaa

(to raise in waves or undulations)

kiemurrella

(to move in curves)

kiepauttaa

(to cause to move in a curve)

kiertää

(to make into a curl or spiral)

kihartaa

(to make into a curl or spiral)

kihartaa

(to twist or form into ringlets)

kihartua

(to assume the shape of a curl or spiral)

koristella

(to deck with, or as if with, curls)

kurlata

(to take part in the sport of curling)

käpristyä

(to assume the shape of a curl or spiral)

käpristää

(to make into a curl or spiral)

luikerrella

(to move in curves)

luikertaa

(to move in curves)

mennä rullalle

(to assume the shape of a curl or spiral)

mutkitella

(to move in curves)

pelata curlingia

(to take part in the sport of curling)

pumpata

(weightlifting: to exercise by bending on the exertion)

pyöräyttää

(to cause to move in a curve)

rullata

(to make into a curl or spiral)

rullautua

(to assume the shape of a curl or spiral)

taivuttaa

(to make into a curl or spiral)

taivuttaa

(to shape the brim of a hat into a curve)

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