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parka.

A long jacket with a hood which protects the wearer against rain and wind.

5 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈpɑɹkə/General-American/ˈpɑːkə/Received-Pronunciation
  1. A long jacket with a hood which protects the wearer against rain and wind.

Where this word comes from

1780, ultimately from Tundra Nenets парка (parka), via Aleut parka and Russian па́рка (párka). Perhaps from Proto-Uralic; see dialectal Finnish parka (“rag, swaddling clothes”), which may be a cognate from Proto-Uralic, or an early borrowing from another Uralic language.

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