the Mafia (International organized crime organization) · mafia (Individual branch) · arrogance
çekim: çoğul mafie
eş: associazione a delinquere, camorra, cosa nostra, Cosa nostra, criminalità organizzata, delinquenza organizzata
köken: Uncertain. Maybe from Arabic مَهْيَاص (mahyāṣ, “cocky, bragger”) (compare Hebrew מָחַץ (“makháts”) to crush, though Piedmontese mafio is considered another possible source. Compare Sicilian mafia for more.
the Mafia (International organized crime organization) · a mafia (an individual branch) · arrogance
çekim: çoğul mafi
köken: Uncertain. The first official source, in which this term appears, dates back to 1863 – just two years after the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy – in the title of the theatrical work « I mafiusi de la Vicaria », set in the Vicaria prison of Palermo and written by Giuseppe Rizzotto and Gaetano Mosca. In 1865, in a report by the prefect of Palermo, Filippo Antonio Gualterio, this term was used…