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shilfa

shilfa noun: the chaffinch.

Noun

shilfa (plural shilfas)

  1. (UK, dialectal) The chaffinch.
    • And the birds! not the gray sparrows you see here, but shilfas and bullfinches and yellow-yeldrings.1866, Alexander Smith, Alfred Hagart's Household, page 20

Forms of shilfa

pluralshilfas

Origin of shilfa

From its call.

Questions about shilfa

What does shilfa mean?
Shilfa means the chaffinch.
What part of speech is shilfa?
Shilfa is a noun.
What is the plural of shilfa?
The plural of shilfa is shilfas.

Words near shilfa in the dictionary

  1. shiledar
  2. shiledars
  3. Shiley
  4. Shileys
  5. shilf
  6. shilfa
  7. shilfas
  8. Shilford
  9. Shilha
  10. Shiliak
  11. Shilin

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