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Old Galician-Portuguese
Pronunciation
Noun
taful m (plural tafuls)
- Alternative form of tafur
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese taful, tafur, from Arabic تَكْفُور (takfūr, “Armenian king”), from Middle Armenian թագւոր (tʻagwor, “king”), from Old Armenian թագաւոր (tʻagawor, “king”), from Parthian *tag(a)-bar (“king”, literally “crown bearing”).
Cognate with Galician tafur, Spanish tahúr, Catalan tafur and Turkish tekfur.
Pronunciation
Adjective
taful m or f (plural tafuis)
- dandyish
Noun
taful m or f by sense (plural tafuis)
- dandy
- gambler