polttaa

From Proto-Finnic *poltadak. Cognates include Estonian põletama, Ludian poltada and Ter Sami pɨellˈted.

• Hyphenation: polt‧taa

polttaa

1. (transitive) to burn (to cause to be consumed by fire)

   Poltin paperinpalasen

   I burned a piece of paper.

2. to burn (to overheat so as to make unusable)
3. to burn (to make or produce by the application of fire)
4. to burn (to injure with heat or chemicals that cause similar injuries)
5. to burn, sunburn
6. to burn (to consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat)
7. (computing) to burn (to write data on a permanent storage device)
8. to burn, waste (to lose money and/or other resources)

   Yritys on polttanut miljoonia sitten huhtikuun.

   The company has burned millions since April.

9. to burn (in a game, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought)
10. (transitive, intransitive) to smoke (to deliberately inhale smoke from cigarettes, other tobacco products or some other substances such as marijuana)

    Häiritseekö, jos poltan?

    Do you mind if I smoke?

    Poltatteko? -Kyllä, poltan sikareita.

    Do you smoke? -Yes, I smoke cigars.

11. (medicine, transitive) to cauterize
12. (baseball) to put out

• (to smoke): See: tupakoida

• adjectives: polttava
• nouns: polte, poltin, polttaja, polttimo, poltto
• verbs: poltattaa, poltella

• palaa (“to burn”)

The difference between the Finnish verbs palaa and polttaa is that with palaa the fuel, or whatever is burning, is the subject of the sentence and with polttaa the fuel is an object. Both can be translated as "to burn" into English.

• plotata

polttaa

1. make burn