farfalla

Meaning

1. (feminine) butterfly
2. (feminine) bow tie
3. (feminine, plural-normally) pasta in the shape of butterflies or bow ties
4. (feminine) the butterfly stroke
5. (feminine) throttle valve, butterfly valve

Concepts

butterfly

🦋

butterfly stroke

bow tie

moth

note

secret

㊙️

slide

bow-tie

butterfly moth

true butterfly

true butterflies

butterfly moths

bowtie

Lepidopter

fly

✈️

lepidopteran

message

Synonyms

cravatta a farfalla

farfallino

delfino

🐬

farfalle diurne

cicala

papillon

saracinesca

diurna

fiocchetto

pàpecia

lepidottero

cravattino

farfalle

gala

🙇

Translations

mariposa

🦋

papillon

🦋

Schmetterling

🦋

borboleta

🦋

vlinder

🦋

papallona

🦋

kelebek

🦋

πεταλούδα

Falter

فراشة

🦋

papilio

🦋

mariposa

🦋

palometa

kapel

Hyphenated as

far‧fàl‧la

Pronounced as (IPA)

/farˈfal.la/

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.
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).

Sentences

La farfalla è un’evoluzione della rana .

The butterfly is an evolution of the frog.