Noun: tafur
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Como un tafur tirou con hũa baeſta hũa seeta cõtra o ceo con ſanna p̈ q̇ pdera. p̃ q̃ cuidaua q̇ firia a deos o.ſ.M̃. (How a gambler shot, with a crossbow, a bolt at the sky, wrathful because he had lost. Because he wanted it to wound God or Holy Mary.) [a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 154 ([[http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/296.html] facsimile]):]
Nouns inflected like tafur
barlavento,
Jayme,
caminno,
ꝱ,
arroz,
tafur,
primo,
papel,
vidro,
mel,
almorço,
açafram,
dormir,
estado,
ezevro,
almafi,
açeyro,
martes,
cozcuz,
chumbo, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Arabic تَكْفُور (takfūr, “Armenian king”), from Middle Armenian թագւոր (tʻagwor, “king”), from Old Armenian թագաւոր (tʻagawor, “king”), from Parthian *tag(a)-bar (“king”, literally “crown bearing”).
2. Cognate with Old Spanish tafur (Modern tahúr).
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