brifka
nounEtymology
Yiddish בריווקע (brivke, “little letter”), a diminutive of Yiddish בריוו (briv), meaning a (postal) letter. Brifka is thus a "little letter". In turn derived from Old High German briaf, which is borrowed from Latin breve, a neuter form of Latin brevis (“short”). Cognates include Middle Dutch, Middle High German brief, and Dutch brief, Old Norse bréf, Old Saxon brēf (all of them borrowed from Latin) and English brief.
Definitions
a small folding envelope used for keeping diamonds or other gemstones in
- With a pair of tweezers, he removed a dazzling rose-coloured crystal from the brifka
by extension a gem envelope including its contents
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for brifka. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA