falda

From Italian falda, from Lombardic *falda, from Proto-Germanic *faldō, *falþō, related to Middle High German falde, falte (“a fold”). More at English fold.

falda (plural faldas)

1. A white silk vestment worn by the pope, which is a long skirt, worn over the cassock, extending beneath the hem of the alb, reaching to the ground.

Borrowed from Spanish falda, gradually displacing native saya.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfalda/ [ˈfal̪.d̪a]
• Rhymes: -alda
• Syllabification: fal‧da

falda f (plural faldes)

1. skirt

   Synonym: saya

• “falda” in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana (1ª edición). Academia de la Llingua Asturiana (2000). →ISBN.
• “falda” in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana. Xosé Lluis García Arias. →ISBN.

From Old Catalan falda, of Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *falþō, related to the verb *falþaną (“to fold”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈfal.də]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈfal.da]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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falda f (plural faldes)

1. lap
2. lower slope (of a mountain)

   Synonyms: baldana, faldar

3. (Balearic, Valencia) skirt

   Synonyms: faldilla, faldeta

4. skirt, flank (of an animal)
5. (nautical) foot of a lateen

   Synonyms: faldar, pujament

• “falda” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “falda”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From Middle High German valte, valt, from Old High German falt, from Proto-Germanic *falþō. Cognate with German Falte.

falda f (plural falden) (Sette Comuni)

1. fold, pleat

   De marzlaan, in dòi sait, zeint gabéest bait un bòlla falden.

   The skirts, at the time, were full of folds.

2. path, way

   Dèar puube hat gasnapt aan an órnen bèg.

   The boy went down a bad path.

• “falda” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Inherited from Old Norse falda.

From faldur (“hem”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfalta/
• Rhymes: -alta

falda (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative faldaði, supine faldað)

1. to hem, to lay up

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)
• Kristín Bjarnadóttir, editor (2002–2025), “falda”, in Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls [The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
• Mörður Árnason (2019) Íslensk orðabók, 5th edition, Reykjavík: Forlagið
• “falda” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

From a Germanic language, probably Frankish *faldā (“a fold”), from Proto-West Germanic *falþan.^[1]

Compare German Falte (“fold”), Spanish falda (“skirt”), Old High German faldan (“to fold”), English fold.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfal.da/
• Rhymes: -alda
• Hyphenation: fàl‧da

falda f (plural falde)

1. layer, stratum
2. brim (of a hat)
3. tails (of a coat)
4. lower slope (of a mountain)
5. snowflake

   Synonym: fiocco

• sfaldare

• falda in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From Proto-Germanic *falþaną, whence also English fold. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to fold”).

falda (singular past indicative felt, plural past indicative feldu, past participle faldinn)

1. to hood

• Danish: folde

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “falda2”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

From Proto-Germanic *faldōną. Also ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to fold”).

falda

1. to hood (= falda (etymology 1))
2. to fold, make folds

• faldr
• -faldr

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “falda1”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

From Proto-Germanic *falþaną, whence also English fold.

falda

1. to hood

See fralda.

• Hyphenation: fal‧da

falda f (plural faldas)

1. foot, lower slope (of a mountain)
2. border, edge

• fralda

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfalda/ [ˈfal̪.d̪a]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -alda
• Syllabification: fal‧da

falda f (plural faldas)

1. skirt

   Synonym: (South America) pollera

2. (by extension, colloquial, often in the plural, metonymic) woman
3. (slang) bit of skirt (woman as an object of desire)
4. (butchery) brisket (a cut of meat)
5. mountainside

• → Cebuano: palda
• → Tagalog: palda

• “falda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• falda on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es