چفوت

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• چفود (çıfud)

Etymology

From Persian جهود (johud).

Noun

چفوت • (çıfut) (ethnic slur)

1. yid, kike
2. penny-pincher, miser
3. malicious man, perfidious person

Descendants

• Turkish: Çıfıt
• → Aromanian: cifut
• → Albanian: çifut
• → Bulgarian: чифу́т (čifút)
• → Czech: Čifut
• → Greek: τσιφούτης (tsifoútis)
• → Romanian: ciufut
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin script: Čìfutin

  Cyrillic script: Чѝфутин

• → Slovene: Čífut

See also

• یاهودی (Yahudi, “Jew”)

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چفوت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1], Vienna, column 1626
• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “469. ČIFÚT”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎^[2], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 109