tyrmä

• IPA^(key): /ˈtyrmæ/, [ˈt̪yrmæ]
• Rhymes: -yrmæ
• Hyphenation^(key): tyr‧mä

Borrowed from Russian тюрьма (tjurʹma, “jail”), probably from Proto-Turkic *türmä (“dungeon”).

tyrmä

1. dungeon

• “tyrmä”, 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 2023-07-01

Possibly from Proto-Finnic *türe-, from Proto-Uralic *tire, *türe, but there are no known Finnic cognates.

tyrmä (dialectal, rare, obsolete)

1. stiff, harsh, unfriendly, wretched, poor

• tyrmistyä
• tyrmätä

Borrowed from Russian тюрьма (tjurʹma). Compare Finnish tyrmä and Estonian türm.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈtyrmæ/, [ˈtʲyrm]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈtyrmæ/, [ˈtyrmæ]
• Rhymes: -yrm, -yrmæ
• Hyphenation: tyr‧mä

tyrmä

1. prison, jail

• Fedor Tumansky (1790) “тюрма”, 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 687
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 614