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Sicilian
Etymology
Contraction of *papavarina, inherited from Latin papāver (“poppy”) + -ina.[1] Compare Greek παπαρούνα (paparoúna).
Noun
paparina f (plural paparini)
- poppy (Papaver rhoeas or P. somniferum)
- paparina curnuta ― horned poppy (Glaucium flavum)
- (hunting, uncountable) Synonym of chiummu (“birdshots”)
References
- ^ Meyer, G. (1891) “paparunε”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 321
Further reading
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “paparina”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, pages 2916–2917