Hammas

Hammas is a Finnish noun meaning "tooth." It is used in anatomy and dentistry and forms the basis for many dental compounds. In everyday Finnish, hammas appears in words such as hammasharja (toothbrush) and hammaslääkäri (dentist). The standard plural is hampaat, used when referring to multiple teeth.

The word is commonly encountered in medical and dental contexts and is typically inflected like other Finnish nouns to indicate number and case, while maintaining the core meaning of “tooth.” In discussions of dental anatomy or pathology, hammas denotes a single tooth within a larger set.

Beyond its primary meaning, hammas can appear as part of compound terms or in descriptive phrases related to dental care and oral health. Like many words in Finnish, its use reflects its role as a root in longer, more specific terms rather than as a standalone term in every context.

In contexts outside Finnish, hammas may be encountered as a proper noun or loanword, depending on language and locale. Such uses are not standardized and vary by case. Overall, hammas is best understood as the Finnish word for a tooth, with familiar reflexes in common dental terminology.