Noun: maffia
Gender: Masculine, Feminine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like maffia
safari,
samosa,
salami,
sialia,
sherry,
sherpa,
skorro,
vluchtauto,
actiefoto,
pachinko,
blauwgrijze ara,
commando,
babiroesa,
begonia,
beloega,
hotellobby,
basisgrammatica,
roodwangara,
retorica,
yogini, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Italian. Perhaps from Italian mafia (“spirit of hostility to the law”) or from Sicilian mafia (“boldness, bravado”). See the Wikipedia article for more discussion of the origin of the word. See: Italian Nouns '
mafia'.
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