parka

Etymology

1780, ultimately from Tundra Nenets парка (parka), via Aleut parka and Russian па́рка (párka). Perhaps from Proto-Uralic; see dialectal Finnish parka (“rag, swaddling clothes”), which may be a cognate from Proto-Uralic, or an early borrowing from another Uralic language.

noun

  1. (clothing) A long jacket with a hood which protects the wearer against rain and wind.
    Basir tended to wear a beige suede parka over his shalwar kameez. January 3, 2002, James Meek, London Review of Books

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