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Albanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چفوت (çıfut).
Pronunciation
Noun
çifut m (plural çifutë or (Gheg) çifutën)
- Jew
- Synonym: hebre
- (derogatory) stingy person, miser, kike
- Synonym: dorështrënguar
- (derogatory, archaic) coward
- Synonym: frikacak
Declension
Adjective
çifut (feminine çifute)
- Jewish
- Synonym: hebraik
Derived terms
References
- ^ Meyer, G. (1891) “tšifút”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 447
- ^ Çabej, E. (1987) Studime etimologjike në fushë të shqipes (in Albanian), volumes III: C–D, Tirana, page 115
- ^ Topalli, K. (2017) “çifut”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 339
- ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “çifut”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 112
Further reading
- “çifut”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980, page 259
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “çifut”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 59b
- Jungg, G. (1895) “cfut”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 17