Siveltimä

Siveltimä is a Finnish noun that refers to the brush head or the cluster of bristles at the end of a brush. In everyday Finnish, the more common word for the tool itself is sivellin, while siveltimä tends to appear in descriptive, technical, or specialized contexts where the focus is on a component or feature of the brush rather than the tool in general.

The term appears to be a nominalized form connected to sivellin, used to denote a particular part of a brush, namely the bristle assembly or end portion. Because it is relatively specialized, siveltimä is not as widely used in casual speech and its usage is more common in product specifications, manuals, or descriptive passages in painting, cosmetics, or industrial tooling.

Usage and contexts

Siveltimä is typically encountered in contexts that require precise reference to the brush’s bristles or head, such as discussing bristle arrangement, density, rigidity, or wear characteristics. It can appear in catalogs, technical documents, and academic or instructional texts where the anatomy of a brush is described.

Related terms

Sivellin refers to the brush as an instrument or tool. Harja is another Finnish term for a brush or tuft and may be used in different contexts, such as animal grooming or certain cleaning tools. Pää is a general term for “head” or “end,” and may appear in compound phrases describing brush components.

Note

Siveltimä is a specialized term and is less common than sivellin in everyday language.