perfeba

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Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Late Latin palfebra, from palpebra. Doublet of pálpebra, a learned borrowing.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /peɾˈfeba/
  • Rhymes: -eba
  • Hyphenation: per‧fe‧ba

Noun

perfeba f (plural perfebas)

  1. (usually in the plural) eyelashes
    Synonym: pestana

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “párpado”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos