Word.ws English Dictionary

yarpha

UK/ˈjɑːfə/US/ˈjɑɹfə/

yarpha noun: peat bog.

Noun

yarpha (uncountable)

  1. (Orkney, Scotland, obsolete) Peat bog.

Forms of yarpha

alternative formyarfa

Origin of yarpha

From a Scandinavian language.

Questions about yarpha

What does yarpha mean?
Yarpha means peat bog.
What part of speech is yarpha?
Yarpha is a noun.
How do you pronounce yarpha?
Yarpha is pronounced /ˈjɑːfə/ (UK).

Words near yarpha in the dictionary

  1. yarovization
  2. yarovize
  3. yarovized
  4. yarovizes
  5. yarovizing
  6. yarpha
  7. yarpie
  8. yarpies
  9. Yarpole
  10. Yarpturk
  11. yarr

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: yarpha (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “yarpha.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/yarpha. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.