Noun: mafia
Gender: f
Hyphenation: mà‧fia
| Singular f | mafia |
| Plural f | mafie |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like mafia
monferrina,
ossichinolina,
palestra,
nipoteria,
gualdrappa,
bacinella,
minicassetta,
bestemmia,
geostoria,
sferra,
sferza,
sfilza,
triplofonia,
fiduciaria,
meteoroscopia,
ipersonnia,
sovrabbondanza,
corbezzola,
pseudoestesia,
viminata, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Uncertain. Maybe from Arabic مَهْيَاص (mahyāṣ, “cocky, bragger”) (compare Hebrew מָחַץ (“makháts”) to crush, though Piedmontese mafio is considered another possible source. Compare Sicilian mafia for more.
Verbs referencing "mafia"
German Nouns
Mafia, Finnish Nouns
mafia, Polish Nouns
mafia, Romanian Nouns
mafie, Russian Nouns
мафия, Dutch Nouns
maffia, Greek Nouns
μαφία, English Nouns
mafiya.
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