mafya
Turkish
noun
Definitions
- mafia
Etymology
Derived from Italian mafia (spirit of hostility to the law) derived from Sicilian mafia (boldness, bravado).
Origin
Sicilian
mafia
Gloss
boldness, bravado
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
- mafia Spanish, Castilian
- máfia Portuguese
- マフィア Japanese
- mafia Polish
- مَاجَاس Arabic
- mafia Galician
- มาเฟีย Thai
- μαφία Greek (modern)
- מאפיה Hebrew (modern)
- 마피아 Korean
- mafia Sicilian
- mafiusu Sicilian