parta

Pronunciation: /ˈpɑrtɑ/

“parta” is a Finnish word. Its 4 meanings in English:

noun

beard (facial hair on humans)
beard (an appendage of some animals, e.g. birds or goats, that looks similar to the facial hair on humans)
beard (curved underside of an axehead)
beard, harmonic bridge (on an organ pipe or a flue pipe)

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *parta, borrowed from either Proto-Baltic *bardā́ˀ, Proto-Germanic *bardaz or Proto-Slavic *bordà, in any case ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰéh₂.

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More Finnish words

parsinlanka
parsinneula
parsinsieni
parsinta
partaalla
partaalle
partageeli
partahaiven

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