szyfon

Borrowed from French chiffon, from Middle French chiffe (“cloth, old rag”), from Old French chipe (“rag”), from Middle English chip, chippe (“chip, shard, fragment”), from Old English ċipp (“chip, splinter, shaving”), from *ċippian ("to chip; chop off in pieces"), from Proto-Germanic *kipp- (“to chop; split”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵey- (“to split; divide; germinate; sprout”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʂɘ.fɔn/

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• Rhymes: -ɘfɔn
• Syllabification: szy‧fon

szyfon m inan

1. chiffon (sheer silk or rayon fabric)

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