Noun: alfafa
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | alfafa |
| Plural f | alfafas |
uncountable
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like alfafa
palestra,
indumentária,
metafísica,
histerectomia,
cumplicidade,
serifa,
sestra,
secura,
semana,
estrebaria,
estreiteza,
savana,
saroba,
sapata,
safena,
safira,
militança,
sacada,
sacola,
sanita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *HéHḱus
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos
4. Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háćwas
5. Proto-Iranian *Hácwah
6. Proto-Iranian *Hástiš
7. Proto-Iranian *HacwaHastiš
8. Old Median *aspāstišder.
9. Arabic فَصْفَص (faṣfaṣ)bor.
10. Old Galician-Portuguese alfalfa
11. Portuguese alfafa
12. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese alfalfa, from Arabic الْفَصْفَصَة (al-faṣfaṣa). See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
alfalfa', Old Portuguese Nouns '
alfalfa'.
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