furfur

Senso (Inglese)

1. (archaic, countable, usually) a particle of dandruff
2. (archaic, uncountable, usually) dandruff

sinonimi

dandruff

chaff

scurf

Traduzioni

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kepek

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈfɜːfə/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Affine lituano: grust

Affine greco antico: χρώς

In summary

From Latin furfur (“bran”), reduplication of *fur, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰur-, metathesis of *gʰrus- (compare Lithuanian grū́sti (“to grind (barley)”), Ancient Greek χρώς (khrṓs, “skin, husk”)).