farfara

From the species epithet.

farfara (uncountable)

1. The dried leaves of coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara), formerly used to treat bronchitis.

• farfaro

Borrowed from Latin farfara and later the species epithet.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfar.fa.ra/
• Rhymes: -arfara
• Hyphenation: fàr‧fa‧ra

farfara f (plural farfare)

1. coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara)

• arraffa

farfara f (genitive farfarae); first declension

1. alternative form of farfarum
   • 900–1100: Codex Vaticanus 4417, Corpus glossariorum latinorum III p. 624 l. 9

     Farfara id est ungula gaballina

     Farfara is a coltsfoot.

First-declension noun.

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish فارفاره (farfara).

farfara f (plural farfarale)

1. (derogatory) windbag

From Ottoman Turkish فارفاره (farfara), فارفره (farfara), فرفره (farfara), from Italian farfalla or from Arabic فَرْفَرَة (farfara), verbal noun of فَرْفَرَ (farfara, “to shake oneself, to be volatile, to be of light behaviour”).

farfara

1. windbag, big talker

• “farfara”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu