"raffia" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈɹæfiə/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-raffia.wav Forms: raffias [plural]
Rhymes: -æfiə Etymology: From Malagasy rafia or rofia. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|mg|rafia}} Malagasy rafia Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} raffia (countable and uncountable, plural raffias)
  1. A fibrous material used for tying plants, originating from the leaves of raffia palm trees (genus Raphia). Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Fibers, Natural materials Categories (lifeform): Palm trees Synonyms: rafia, raphia, rofia [obsolete] Translations (Raphia sudanica): kɔrɔ (Akaha), ikoi (Ashe), ŋkyɛ (Bafanji), kartũŋgu (Cerma), gwangwala (Hausa), kɔ́rɔ́ (Ibani), ìko (Ifè), ʉmʉware (Ikizu), gwangwala (Karekare), nanyuŋə tiu (Kasem), gùlə̀və̀ (Kirya), kè̱nbè̱ (Lela), kpaat (Nawdm), kɔ́rɔ́ (Okordia), kwaigat (Tal) Translations (fibrous material): рафия (rafija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), ràfia (Catalan), tɔrru (Cerma), raffia (Dutch), rafio (Esperanto), ραφία (rafía) [feminine] (Greek), ράφια (ráfia) [feminine, informal] (Greek), rafia (Indonesian), rafia [masculine] (Italian), raofia (Malagasy), ráfia [feminine] (Portuguese), rafija (Serbo-Croatian), rafia (Spanish)

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.