mafia
Spanish
noun
Definitions
- Mafia (Italian Mafia)
- Mafia (any criminal organization)
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian mafia (spirit of hostility to the law).
Origin
Italian (Fiorentino)
mafia
Gloss
spirit of hostility to the law
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Mafia Italian
- antimafia Italian
- capomafia Italian
- ecomafia Italian
- mafia Italian
- mafiologia Italian
- mafioso Italian
- zoomafia Italian
- maffia Dutch, Flemish
- antimafia Spanish, Castilian
- マフィア Japanese
- mafia Polish
- مَاجَاس Arabic
- mafia Galician
- มาเฟีย Thai
- μαφία Greek (modern)
- mafya Turkish
- 마피아 Korean
- mafia Sicilian
- mafiusu Sicilian