taffeta

See also: taffetà

English

Woman in a black taffeta dress.

Alternative forms

• taffaty (obsolete)
• taffety (dated)

Etymology

Late (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French taffetas, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin taffata, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Persian تافته (tâfte), from تافتن

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtæ.fɨ.tə/, /ˈtæ.fə.tə/

Noun

taffeta (countable and uncountable, plural taffetas)

1. A crisp, smooth woven fabric made from silk or synthetic fibers.

Derived terms

• taffeta glass

Translations

woven fabric

• Belarusian: тафта (tafta)
• Breton: taftas
• Bulgarian: тафта (tafta)
• Catalan: tafetà (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 塔夫绸 (zh) (tǎfūchóu)

• Czech: taft (cs)
• Danish: taft c or n
• Dutch: taf (nl) m or n
• Esperanto: tafto
• Estonian: taft
• Finnish: tafti (fi)
• French: taffetas (fr) m
• German: Taft (de) m
• Hungarian: taft
• Icelandic: taft n
• Ido: tafto (io)
• Italian: taffetà m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: タフタ (tafuta)
• Korean: 태피터 (taepiteo)
• Kurdish:
• Lithuanian: tafta
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: taft m or n

  Nynorsk: taft m or n

• Persian: تافته (fa) (tâfte)
• Polish: tafta (pl) f
• Portuguese: tafetá m
• Romanian: tafta (ro)
• Russian: тафта (ru) (tafta)
• Slovak: taft
• Spanish: tafetán m; tafeta f
• Swedish: taft (sv) c
• Tagalog: tapetan
• Turkish: tafta (tr)
• Vietnamese: vải mỏng