祖阿夫

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)		祖	阿	夫

Etymology

Borrowed from French Zouave or Arabic زَوَاوِيّ (zawāwiyy).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zǔ'āfū

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄨˇ ㄚ ㄈㄨ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zǔ'āfū
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄨˇ ㄚ ㄈㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zǔ-afu
    • Wade–Giles: tsu³-a¹-fu¹
    • Yale: dzǔ-ā-fū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzuuafu
    • Palladius: цзу’афу (czu’afu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡su²¹⁴⁻²¹ ˀä⁵⁵ fu⁵⁵/

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)