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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Persian جهود (johud).
Noun
چفوت • (çıfut) (ethnic slur)
- yid, kike
- penny-pincher, miser
- malicious man, perfidious person
Descendants
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References
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چفوت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1626
- Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “469. ČIFÚT”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 109