zafio
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic سَفِيه (safīh, “foolish”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈθafjo/ [ˈθa.fjo] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
- IPA(key): /ˈsafjo/ [ˈsa.fjo] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -afjo
- Syllabification: za‧fio
Adjective
zafio (feminine zafia, masculine plural zafios, feminine plural zafias)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “zafio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
- Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1991), “zafio”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary][1] (in Spanish), volume VI (Y–Z), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN