karfa

kar +‎ fa

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: kar‧fa
• Rhymes: -fɒ

karfa (plural karfák)

1. armrest

• karfa in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

From Old Norse karfa, kǫrf, from Latin corbis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰarva/
• Rhymes: -arva

karfa f (genitive singular körfu, nominative plural körfur)

1. basket

• blómakarfa (“flower basket, hanging basket”)
• bréfakarfa (“wastepaper basket”)
• innkaupakarfa (“shopping basket”)
• körfubíll (“cherry picker”)
• körfubolti (“basketball”)
• körfugerð (“basketmaking”)
• körfuknattleikur (“basketball”)
• körfustóll (“wicker chair”)
• pappírskarfa (“wastepaper basket”)
• ruslakarfa (“wastepaper basket”)
• tágakarfa (“wicker basket”)
• taukarfa (“laundry basket”)
• þvottakarfa (“laundry basket”)

From Arabic كَرْفَأَة (karfaʔa). Compare Kabyle akerfa (“chaff”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkar.fa/

karfa f (plural kraf or krafi or kruf)

1. chaff
2. (figuratively) plebs
3. (figuratively) uneducated, ill-mannered