祖阿夫

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Chinese

ancestor; forefather; grandparents
phonetic; (final part.); (interj.)
phonetic; (final part.); (interj.); flatter; an initial particle; prefix to names of people
 
husband; man
simp. and trad.
(祖阿夫)

Etymology

Borrowed from French Zouave or Arabic زَوَاوِيّ (zawāwiyy).

Pronunciation


Noun

祖阿夫

  1. (military, historical) Zouave (a kind of soldier in the French service, or the volunteer counterpart in the army of the United States in the Civil War)