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English

Etymology

Perhaps from the name of the Ford Zephyr automobile, clipping of Zephyr.

Noun

zef (uncountable)

1. (South Africa) A South African counterculture movement associated with the white lower middle class.

Further reading

• zef on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Fez, fez

French

Alternative forms

• zeph, zèf

Etymology

Clipping of zéphyr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /z?f/

Noun

zef m (uncountable)

1. (France, slang) wind

Further reading

• “zef” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Russian ???? (z??k), probably representing a pronunciation of ?/? (z/k), Soviet abbreviation of ??????????? (zaklju?ónnyj, “prisoner”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /z?k/

Noun

zek (plural zeks)

1. A prisoner at a Russian prison, especially (historical) at a Soviet labour camp. [from 20th c.]
   • 1988, Stefani Hoffman, translating Natan Sharansky, Fear No Evil, p. 235:

     Every prisoner who recants is a potential influence on other zeks to do likewise.

   • 2004, Jason Burke, The Observer, 8 Feb 2004:

     There are the zeks, the survivors of the gulags, some honest about their experiences, others still deluded or traumatised decades later.

Anagrams

• Kez

Basque

Noun

zek

1. ergative indefinite of ze

Breton

Numeral

zek

1. Soft mutation of dek.