farfalla

== Galician == === Verb === farfalla inflection of farfallar: third-person singular present indicative second-person singular imperative == Italian == === Etymology === Perhaps from Old Italian parpaglione, from Latin papiliō (“butterfly”). Compare Old French paveillon, Catalan papalló, Provençal parpalhos, Lombard 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 (farṭaṭṭu) / فرفطو (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-, 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 (compare Sicilian beddu versus Italian bello). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /farˈfal.la/ Rhymes: -alla Hyphenation: far‧fàl‧la === Noun === 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 ==== sfarfallare ==== See also ==== bruco m falena f === Further reading === 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