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List of English words of Arabic origin (C–F)

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Arabic_origin_(C%E2%80%93F)

English fanfare is from French fanfare, which is probably from Spanish fanfarria and fanfarrón and fanfarronear, meaning bluster, grandstanding, and a talker who is full of bravado. Spanish records also have the lesser-used variant forms farfantón | farfante with pretty much the same meaning as fanfarrón. The origin of the Spanish words is obscure and uncertain. An origin in the Arabic of medieval Spain is possible. One Arabic candidate is فرفر farfar | فرفار farfār | فرفرة farfara which is in the medieval Arabic dictionaries with meanings including "lightness and frivolity", "talkative", and "shouting".[77][78]

 The medieval Arabic dictionaries' definitions of farfār | farfara are at فرفر | فرفار @ Baheth.info and Lane's Lexicon page 2357. This proposed Arabic source-word for the Spanish fanfarria and fanfarrón was reported by Gilles Ménage in his Dictionnaire Etymologique back in year 1670 – ref. Today it is contemplated but not fully endorsed at fanfarrón @ RAE.es, farfante @ RAE.es, fanfaron @ CNRTL.fr, fanfaronade @ American Heritage Dictionary and fanfare @ Etymonline.com.

 "Definition of fanfare | Dictionary.com". www.dictionary.com.




The language of the Asparukh and Kuber Bulgars, Vocabulary and grammar

Old Bulgar words preserved in the modern Bulgarian language: U - F - KH

https://groznijat.tripod.com/b_lang/bl_u_kh.html


Modern Bulgarian  

FARFALAK – a top, a whipping-top (in the district of Sofia, etc.)

Eastern analogies

FARFAR (‘to spin’) [GASK, 345] 

FARFALAG (‘a top’) [LRS, 333]

 Cluster_user's ottoman parallels

 turk. ferferek (whirligig) < pers. ferfereg (probably based on `ar. farfara (to flutter)

 

Modern Bulgarian  

FARFARA – feather-brain

 Eastern analogies

 Obviously derived from FARFAR (‘to spin’). 

FARFARA literally meant ‘scatter-brained man’

 Cluster_user's ottoman parallels

 turk. farfara (fickle, braggart) < `ar. farfara(t) (to flutter, normally rendered in turkish ferfere)

 

Word фарфалаг

https://ids.clld.org/units/165-617

Phonemic
farfalag

Meanings

 

 Lezgian, also called Lezgi or Lezgin /ˈlɛzɡiːn/,[3][4] is a Northeast Caucasian language. It is spoken by the Lezgins, who live in southern Dagestan (Russia); northern Azerbaijan; and to a much lesser degree Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan; Kazakhstan; Turkey, and other countries. It is a much-written literary language[citation needed] and an official language of Dagestan. It is classified as "vulnerable" by UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.[5]


Dictionaries of the Scots Language Dictionars o the Scots Leid

https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/farfar

FARFAR, n. The local Ags. form of Forfar, the county town of Angus. Phrs.: (1) a Farfar shot, in bowls, a hit-or-miss shot (Ags.16, Fif.14 1947); (2) to play Farfar, to play the lower of two or more cards which are in sequence, even when there is no advantage in doing so (Ags. 1953 Forfar Dispatch (10 Sept.)). (3) Forfar latchkey, a jocular name for a corkscrew (Ags. 1961 People's Jnl. (14 Jan.)

 

 


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