different between yakuza vs maffia

English

Etymology

From Japanese ??? (yakuza). See there for more details.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?jakuza/, /j??ku?z?/

Noun

yakuza (plural yakuza or yakuzas)

1. A Japanese organized crime gang. (plural: yakuza)
2. A member of a Japanese organized crime gang. (plural: yakuzas)

Coordinate terms

Translations

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ???.

Noun

yakuza

1. yakuza (organized crime group or its member)

Declension

French

Alternative forms

• yakusa

Etymology

From Japanese, ???

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ja.ky.za/, /ja.ku.za/

Noun

yakuza m (plural yakuzas)

1. yakuza

Japanese

Romanization

yakuza

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /?a?ku?a/, [???a?ku.?a]

Noun

yakuza m (plural yakuzas)

1. yakuza

Dutch

Etymology

From Italian. Perhaps from Italian mafia (“spirit of hostility to the law”) or from Sicilian mafia (“boldness, bravado”). See the Wikipedia article for more discussion of the origin of the word.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?.fi.a?/
• Hyphenation: maf?fia

Noun

maffia f or m (plural maffia's, diminutive maffiaatje n)

1. mafia

Derived terms

• maffiabaas
• maffiamaat

French

Noun

maffia f (plural maffias)

1. Alternative spelling of mafia

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?f?ij?]
• Hyphenation: maf?fia
• Rhymes: -j?

Noun

maffia (plural maffiák)

1. mafia

Declension

Further reading

• maffia in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

maffia m (definite singular maffiaen, indefinite plural maffiaer, definite plural maffiaene)

1. form removed by a 1987 spelling decision; superseded by mafia

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

maffia m (definite singular maffiaen, indefinite plural maffiaer or maffiaar, definite plural maffiaene or maffiaane)

1. form removed by a 1987 spelling decision; superseded by mafia