çifut
Appearance
Albanian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چفوت (çıfut).[1][2][3][4]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]çifut m (plural çifutë or (Gheg) çifutën)
- Jew
- Synonym: hebre
- (derogatory) stingy person, miser, kike
- Synonym: dorështrënguar
- (derogatory, archaic) coward
- Synonym: frikacak
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | çifut | çifuti | çifutë | çifutët |
accusative | çifutin | |||
dative | çifuti | çifutit | çifutëve | çifutëve |
ablative | çifutësh |
Adjective
[edit]çifut (feminine çifute)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Meyer, G. (1891) “tšifút”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, , page 447
- ^ Çabej, E. (1987) “çifut”, in Studime etimologjike në fushë të shqipes (in Albanian), volumes III: C–D, Tirana, page 115
- ^ Topalli, Kolec (2017) “çifut”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in Albanian), 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
[edit]- FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1], 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
Categories:
- Albanian terms derived from Persian
- Albanian terms borrowed from Ottoman Turkish
- Albanian terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Albanian 2-syllable words
- Albanian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Albanian/ut
- Albanian lemmas
- Albanian nouns
- Albanian masculine nouns
- sq:Judaism
- Albanian derogatory terms
- Albanian terms with archaic senses
- Albanian adjectives