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Pirni (Pirn)

1) Pear; 2) Lightbulb – Kellelegi pirni panema is to play a practical joke on someone, take someone for a ride, or make someone’s life miserable.

Mooni (Moon) Symbol designating a Tallinn "Allasum", or Ward.

Poppy. At least ten genera of plants produce poppies, but the one referred to is probably the good old opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, whose seeds are used in many a fine Estonian cake. One of the Lilleküla flower street-name group. See Tulbi.

Laiaküla (Laiaküla) Symbol designating a Tallinn "Asum", or Sub-district.

Lit. ‘wide village’, once a scattered village, split into a Sub-district of Tallinn, and a former ‘suburb’ now village outside Tallinn also (sometimes?) known as Käära (see also Muuga), aka Kärak, Kärakas or Kärakas küla, inter alia: Boozeburg.

Läike (Läige)

Shine, gleam, polish.

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