Etymology

mihaffa

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Today it means: Various forms of covered animal-borne litters, chiefly for female passengers. Full definition →

Arabic مِحَفَّة ← Persian محافه ← Urdu محفہ
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The story

  1. Arabic · derived fromحَفَّ“to enclose, to border”
  2. Hindi · borrowed fromमिहफ़्फ़ा
  3. Urdu · borrowed fromمحفہ
  4. Persian · borrowed fromمحافه
  5. Arabic · borrowed fromمِحَفَّة
  6. English todaymihaffa

From Arabic مِحَفَّة (miḥaffa) directly and via Persian محافه (miḥâfah), Urdu محفہ (miḥaffa), and Hindi मिहफ़्फ़ा (mihaffā), related to Arabic حَفَّ (ḥaffa, “to enclose, to border”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.