Feminine

falda

Meaning

  1. (feminine) skirt
  2. (broadly, colloquial, feminine, in-plural, metonymically, often) woman
  3. (feminine, slang) bit of skirt (woman as an object of desire)
  4. (feminine) brisket (a cut of meat)
  5. (feminine) mountainside

Frequency

C1
Hyphenated as
fal‧da
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈfalda/
Etymology

In summary

From a Germanic language, probably Frankish *falda (“to fold”), related to Old High German faldan (“to fold”), English fold, all from Proto-West Germanic *falþan. Doublet of halda.

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