ankara

Borrowed from Arabic أَنْكَرَ (ʔankara, “to deny”).

• IPA^(key): /ankaˈra/, [ʔʌŋkʌˈɾʌ]
• Hyphenation: an‧ka‧ra

ankará f 

1. deprecation

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “ankara”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

Probably from the same source as ankea with anka- +‎ -ra. Cognate with Karelian ankara.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑŋkɑrɑ/, [ˈɑ̝ŋkɑ̝rɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑŋkɑrɑ
• Syllabification^(key): an‧ka‧ra

ankara (comparative ankarampi, superlative ankarin)

1. harsh, hard, strict (of a person or character, etc.)
2. harsh, sharp, fierce (e.g. of the weather, such as winter weather)
3. barren, austere, desolate (of a place, e.g. of a landscape)

• (harsh): "to" is expressed with the allative case.

• (person): kova
• (weather): kova
• (landscape): karu

• (antonym(s) of “person”): lempeä
• (antonym(s) of “weather”): lempeä

• “ankara”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• arkaan, arkana, kaaran, kaarna, karaan, karana, kraana

• ankra

Borrowed from Arabic [Term?].

ankara (n class, plural ankara)

1. invoice

   Synonym: bili