Meanings
plural brifkas
- countableuncountablea 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
2014, Echo Freer, Diamond Geezers - countableuncountableby extension a gem envelope including its contents
Origin
- Latinbreve
- Old High Germanbriaf
- Yiddishבריוו
- Yiddishבריווקע“little letter”
- Englishbrifka
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.
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