çifut

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • çëfut, çfut — dialectal

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چفوت (çıfut).[1][2][3][4]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃiˈfut/
  • Rhymes: -ut

Noun

çifut m (plural çifutë or (Gheg) çifutën)

  1. Jew
    Synonym: hebre
  2. (derogatory) stingy person, miser, kike
    Synonym: dorështrënguar
  3. (derogatory, archaic) coward
    Synonym: frikacak

Declension
Declension of çifut
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative çifut çifutë çifuti çifutët
accusative çifutin
dative çifuti çifutëve çifutit çifutëvet
ablative çifutësh

Adjective

çifut (feminine çifute)

  1. Jewish
    Synonym: hebraik

Derived terms
  • çifutëri
  • çifutërisht
  • çifutkë

References
  1. Meyer, G. (1891) “tšifút”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 447
  2. Çabej, E. (1987) Studime etimologjike në fushë të shqipes (in Albanian), volumes III: C–D, Tirana, page 115
  3. Topalli, K. (2017) “çifut”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 339
  4. 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
  • “çifut”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 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
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