farfalla
Galician[edit]
Verb[edit]
farfalla
- inflection of farfallar:
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Perhaps from Old Italian parpaglione, from Latin papiliō (“butterfly”). Compare Old French paveillon, Catalan papalló, Provençal parpalhos, Lombardic parpaja. The f is difficult to account for, though it might be due to the Tuscan gorgia. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Alternatively, from the dialectal Arabic word in Maltese farfett, Tunisian Arabic فرططو/فرفطو (farṭaṭṭu/farfaṭṭu), which is from Berber; compare Kabyle aferṭeṭṭu (“butterfly, moth”). Forms with a second -f- are apparently attested within Berber as well, but are at any rate explainable. For the -ll- compare Sicilian beddu versus Italian bello. The Arabic emphatic [tˤ] could easily have been interpreted by southern Italians as their retroflex [ɖ] and then replaced with the cognate [l] as the word moved northwards.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
farfalla f (plural farfalle)
- butterfly
- bow tie
- (usually in the plural) pasta in the shape of butterflies or bow ties
- (swimming) the butterfly stroke
- throttle valve, butterfly valve
Derived terms[edit]
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- farfalla in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- farfalla in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- farfalla in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “farfalla”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
- Galician non-lemma forms
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- Italian terms derived from Old Italian
- Italian terms inherited from Latin
- Italian terms derived from Latin
- Italian terms derived from Arabic
- Italian terms derived from Berber languages
- Italian 3-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Italian terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Italian/alla
- Rhymes:Italian/alla/3 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian feminine nouns
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