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parka.

poor thing, someone pitiful

5 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈpɑrkɑ/[ˈpɑ̝rkɑ̝]
  1. poor thing, someone pitiful

    poikaparka
    tyttöparka
  2. rag, swaddling of clothes

    dialectal
Where this word comes from

Uncertain. Perhaps an old cognate of the internationalism parka (“a sort of jacket”). If so, a loan from Tundra Nenets (see Proto-Samoyedic *pårkå) or, less likely, inherited from Proto-Uralic.

noun/ˈpɑrkɑ/[ˈpɑ̝rkɑ̝]
  1. parka

Where this word comes from

Internationalism (compare English parka). From Tundra Nenets парка (parka), via Aleut parka and Russian па́рка (párka). Possibly related to parka (etymology 1; see there for more).

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