The story
- Arabic · derived fromسَكَّاف“shoemaker”
- Dutch · borrowed fromScaff
- English todayScaff
Various origins: * An English surname, perhaps a variant of Scaife. * Borrowed from Belgian Dutch Scaff. * A variant of Skaff, a Lebanese surname of Arabic origin. Possibly related to Arabic سَكَّاف (sakkāf, “shoemaker”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.