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[mafia]
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Etymology
[en], of [en] origin. In the first instance, it is not clear whether the
lemma in question is a Sicilian exonym or endonym, since written and oral
sources on this term are scarce, the etymology remains uncertain and it's
worthy of further investigation. It is possibly a regional term of the then
recently established Kingdom of Italy; thus the meaning "spirit of hostility
to the law" could be just derivative. The hypotheses put forward have been
varied, but not very convincing from a reconstructive point of view. See
[scn] for more. See, also, 吴语: Mafia for more discussion of the origin of the
word. [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
*** Proper noun
[head=the Mafia]
1. [en] The [en] : any particular mafia , mentioned uniquely within the discussion's established or implicit context, usually and especially the Sicilian-Italian–Italian-American one (especially in American English) but occasionally others (e.g., the Russian one, the Japanese one).
1. The international criminal organization of Sicilian origin operating in Italy and the United States .
2. Any other specific organized crime syndicate operating internationally in high-level organized crime ; [often with a modifying adjective, such as a nationality] .
*** Proper noun
[en-proper noun]
1. A social deduction party game modelling a conflict between an informed minority (the mafia) and an uninformed majority (the innocents). Each player is secretly assigned a role within one of these teams, and the innocents attempt to identify the mafia members before they are all "murdered".
**** Derived terms
- [en] < !--lowercase, generic term-->
- [en]
**** Related terms
- [en]
- [en]
- [en] [rare, used to describe Russian "mafias"]
**** Translations
[international criminal organisation of Sicilian origin]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Italian: [it]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Sicilian: [scn]
[trans-bottom]
[organized criminal syndicate]
- Czech: [cs]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Sicilian: [scn]
[trans-bottom]
[party game]
- Chinese:
[trans-bottom]
*** See also
- [party game] [en]
- [en]
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[en]
** German
[lang=de]
*** Alternative forms
- [de]
*** Etymology
[de].
*** Pronunciation
- [de]
- [de]
*** Noun
[f,s:Mafien [ rare ]]
1. mafia , [en]
**** Declension
[f,s:Mafien]
**** Derived terms
[de]
**** Related terms
[de]
*** Further reading
- [R:de:Duden]
- [R:de:DWDS]