szyfon

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French chiffon, from Middle French chiffe (“cloth, old rag”), from Old French chipe (“rag”), from Middle English chip, chippe (“chip, shard, fragment”), from Old English ċipp (“chip, splinter, shaving”), from *ċippian ("to chip; chop off in pieces"), from Proto-Germanic *kipp- (“to chop; split”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵey- (“to split; divide; germinate; sprout”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʂɨ.fɔn/

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• Rhymes: -ɨfɔn
• Syllabification: szy‧fon

Noun

szyfon m inan

1. chiffon (sheer silk or rayon fabric)

Declension

Declension of szyfon

	singular	plural
nominative	szyfon	szyfony
genitive	szyfonu	szyfonów
dative	szyfonowi	szyfonom
accusative	szyfon	szyfony
instrumental	szyfonem	szyfonami
locative	szyfonie	szyfonach
vocative	szyfonie	szyfony

Derived terms

adjective

• szyfonowy

 

Related terms

nouns

• szyfoniera
• szyfonierka

 

Further reading

• szyfon in Polish dictionaries at PWN