چفوت

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms
  • چفود‎ (çıfud)

Etymology

From Persian جهود‎ (johud).

Noun

چفوت • (çıfut) (ethnic slur)

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

Descendants
  • Turkish: Çıfıt
  • → Aromanian: cifut
  • → Albanian: çifut
  • → Bulgarian: чифу̀т (čifùt)
  • → Greek: τσιφούτης (tsifoútis)
  • → Romanian: ciufut
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Latin: Čìfut
    Cyrillic: Чѝфут

See also
  • یاهودی‎ (Yahudi, “Jew”)

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во ароманскиот, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите, →ISBN, page 109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