Cebuano

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Etymology

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From English mafia or Mafia, from Italian.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: map‧ya

Noun

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mapya

  1. a mafia, a mob; The Mafia
  2. a fixed match
  3. an instance of throwing a game or case
  4. a match fixing

Verb

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mapya

  1. (sports) to fix a match, to throw a game
  2. to be partisan, to make partisan decisions
  3. (referee, judge or lawyer) to deliberately make wrong calls, to throw a case
  4. to pay off or bribe a referee or judge

Swahili

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Adjective

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mapya

  1. Ma class inflected form of -pya.