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چفوت

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Ottoman Turkish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Persian جهود (johud).

Noun

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چفوت (çıfut) (ethnic slur)

  1. yid, kike
  2. penny-pincher, miser
  3. malicious man, perfidious person

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References

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  • 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[1], Vienna, column 1626
  • Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “469. ČIFÚT”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎[2], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 109