köken: Haplology of dialectal German Feifalter, from Middle High German vīvalter, from Old High German fīfaltra, from Proto-Germanic *fifaldǭ, *fīfildǭ (“butterfly”), from Proto-Indo-European *peypel-. Cognate with Dutch vijfwouter, Icelandic fiðrildi, and outside Germanic Latin papilio. Folk-etymologically re-interpreted as Zweifalter, Pfeiffalter, etc., by association with unrelated falten (“to fold”).
köken: Borrowed from Persian عبادتخانه ('ebâdatxâne). By surface analysis, ғибәҙәт (ğibəźət) + -хана (-xana). Cognate with Kazakh ғибадатхана (ğibadatxana), Uzbek ibodatxona, Turkmen ybadathana (“temple”).
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese berbeleta of uncertain origin. Possible etymologies include: * Old Galician-Portuguese *belbeleta, from Vulgar Latin *belbellita, from bellus (“beautiful”). * Vulgar Latin *papilitta, from Latin pāpiliō (“butterfly”). Cognate with Galician bolboreta.
köken: First attested in the Neung'eomgyeong eonhae (楞嚴經諺解 / 능엄경언해), 1461, as Middle Korean 나ᄇᆡ〮 (Yale: nàpóy). Also attested in the Bullyu dugongbu si eonhae (分類杜工部詩諺解 / 분류두공부시언해), 1481, as Middle Korean 나뵈〮 (Yale: nàpwóy). Perhaps etymologically 나봇 (nabot, ideophonic root for fluttering) + -이 (-i, noun-deriving suffix), literally "flutterer". Compare 나부끼다 (nabukkida, “to flutter in the wind”), 나붓거리다…