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- Egyptian Arabic · derived fromشُفْتِ، شُفْتِي“have you seen?”
- English todayshufti
UK 1940s, originally military slang. From Egyptian Arabic شُفْتِ، شُفْتِي (šufti, “have you seen?”, literally “you saw”), a conjugation of شَاف (šāf, “to see”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.