Etymology

mafiya

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Today it means: A Russian mafia organization. Full definition →

Russian ма́фия ← Italian mafia
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The story

  1. Italian · derived frommafia
  2. Russian · borrowed fromма́фия
  3. English todaymafiya

Borrowed from Russian ма́фия (máfija), from Italian mafia. Doublet of mafia.

Words from the same roots

Italianmafia all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.