ryhmä

From Proto-Finnic *rühmä (compare Estonian rühm), borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (compare Lithuanian trūkšmas).

• IPA^(key): /ˈryhmæ/, [ˈryçmæ]
• Rhymes: -yhmæ
• Syllabification^(key): ryh‧mä
• Hyphenation^(key): ryh‧mä

ryhmä

1. group (number of things or persons being in some relation to each other)
2. team (group of people on a work project)

   Synonym: tiimi

3. body (coherent group, group of people having a common purpose or opinion)

   Ryhmä aseistettuja vartijoita saattoi minut ulos rakennuksesta.

   I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.

4. (military) squad (unit of tactical military personnel or police officers, usually numbering about 5–10)
5. (military) group (air force formation)
6. troupe (company of actors, etc.)
7. group (subset of a culture or of a society)
8. complex (assemblage of related things, collection)

   B-vitamiiniryhmä ― vitamin B complex

9. (group theory) group (set with an associative binary operation and certain conditions)
10. (mathematics) system (of related things, e.g. equations, to be solved simultaneously)
11. (chemistry) group (column in the periodic table)
12. (astronomy) group (small number of galaxies)
13. (computing) group (user group)

• “ryhmä”, 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 1 July 2023