شفشوفة
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Libyan Arabic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Uncertain; perhaps from Arabic شَفْشَفَ (šafšafa).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
شفشوفة (šufšūfa) m
- (derogatory, slang) Muammar Gaddafi.
- 2020, Muṣṭafá ʻUmar Tīr, Thawrah al-Lībīyah[1], al-Markaz al-ʻArabī lil-Abḥāth wa-Dirāsat al-Siyāsāt, →ISBN, page 231:
- […] أي صاحب طاقية الرأس البالية، ورد الثوار بوصف العقيد ((بو شفشوفة))؛ […]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Usage notes[edit]
- The use of this term is chiefly restricted among Libyans who opposed Gaddafi's regime.