Etymology

cafiso

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Italian cafiso ← Sicilian cafisu ← Arabic قَفِيز
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The story

  1. Classical Syriac · derived fromܩܦܝܙܐ
  2. Aramaic · derived fromקְפִיזָא
  3. Arabic · derived fromقَفِيز
  4. Sicilian · derived fromcafisu
  5. Italian · borrowed fromcafiso
  6. English todaycafiso

From Italian cafiso, from Sicilian cafisu, from Arabic قَفِيز (qafīz), from Aramaic קְפִיזָא and Classical Syriac ܩܦܝܙܐ (qəp̄īzā), of uncertain derivation from Egyptian, Akkadian, and similar units.

Words from the same roots

Arabicقَفِيز all →

cahizqafiz

Aramaicקְפִיזָא all →

cahizqafiz

Classical Syriacܩܦܝܙܐ all →

cahizqafiz

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.