Etymology

haafu

H4A1A1F4U1

Today it means: person of half or mixed ethnic Japanese and other ancestries usually from outside Japan Full definition →

Japanese ハーフ ← English half
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The story

  1. English · derived fromhalf
  2. Japanese · borrowed fromハーフ“mixed-race (unspecified)”
  3. English todayhaafu

From Japanese ハーフ (hāfu, “mixed-race (unspecified)”), from English half. Doublet of half.

Words from the same roots

Englishhalf all →

hapa

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.