farfalle

farfalle (fahr-FAH-lee, fahr-FAH‑ley) - n., pasta in the shape of bow-ties.



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Or if you prefer, butterflies -- and that's what the word means in Italian, the plural of farfalla, butterfly (from either Latin papiliō, butterfly, with an unusual consonant shift, or Maltese farfett, from Tunisian Arabic farṭaṭṭu/farfaṭṭu, from a Berber language, possibly Kabyle aferṭeṭṭu, butterfly/moth).

---L.