mafisce

Sicilian

Etymology

From dialectal Arabic مافيش (mafīš), compare English mafeesh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [maˈfiʃʃə]

Interjection

mafisce!

1. (Calabria) I have nothing! mafeesh!

References

• Luigi Paternostro (2018) “mafìscə!”, in Gli alti Bruzi e il loro linguaggio, page 116