Etymology
The word anorak comes from the Kalaallisut word anoraq. It did not appear in English until 1924; an early definition is "gay beaded item worn by Greenland women or brides in the 1930s". In the early 1950s it was made from nylon, but changed to poplin by 1959, when it was featured in Vogue magazine as a fashion item. In 1984, the Observer newspaper used the term to refer to the type of people who wore it and subsequently, in the United Kingdom, it is sometimes used as a mildly derogatory term.
The word parka is derived from the Nenets language. In the Aleutian Islands the word simply means "animal skin". It first entered the English written record in a 1625 work by Samual Purchas.
The Inuit who speak Inuktitut use parkas and the Inuit have various terms related to them as follows:
| Inuktitut Terminology | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Inuktitut Syllabics | Roman Inuktitut | IPA |
| woman's parka | ᐊᕐᓇᐅᑎ | irnauti | |
| parka tail | ᓂᖏᒻᓇᖅᑐᖅ | ningimnaqtuq | |
| parka hood | ᐊᒪᐅᑦ | amaut | |
| parka decoration | ᑰᑦᓯᓂᕈᑎ | kuutsinaruti | |
| parka material | ᐊᑎᒋᑦᓴᖅ | atigitsaq | |
| parka button | ᓇᑦᑐᕋᖅ | naturaq | |
| parka belt | ᑕᑦᓯ | tatsi | |
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