falda

From Italian, from a Germanic language; compare fold.

falda (plural faldas)

1. An white silk vestment worn by the pope, which is a long skirt, worn over the cassock, extending beneath the hem of the alb, reaching to the ground.

falda f (plural faldes)

1. skirt

• saya

From faldur (“hem”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfalta/
• Rhymes: -alta

falda (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative faldaði, supine faldað)

1. to hem, to lay up

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

falda f (plural falde)

1. layer, stratum
2. brim (of a hat)
3. tails (of a coat)
4. lower slope (of a mountain)
5. snowflake

From Proto-Germanic *falþaną, whence also English fold. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to fold”).

falda (singular past indicative felt, plural past indicative feldu, past participle faldinn)

1. to hood

• Danish: folde

• falda2 in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From Proto-Germanic *faldōną. Also ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to fold”).

falda

1. to hood (= falda (etymology 1))
2. to fold, make folds

• faldr
• -faldr

• falda1 in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

See fralda.

• Hyphenation: fal‧da

falda f (plural faldas)

1. foot, lower slope (of a mountain)
2. border, edge

• fralda

From a Germanic language. Compare Frankish *falda, Old High German faldan (“to fold”), English fold.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfalda/, [ˈfal̪d̪a]
• Rhymes: -alda

falda f (plural faldas)

1. skirt
2. (slang) bit of skirt; (by extension) woman, especially as an object of desire
3. (butchery) brisket, a cut of meat
4. side (of a mountain); mountainside

• falda escocesa
• minifalda

• nagua
• saya
• pollera
• enagua