祖阿夫

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Chinese

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ancestor; forefather; grandparents
phonetic; (final part.); (interj.)
phonetic; (final part.); (interj.); flatter; an initial particle; prefix to names of people
 
husband; man
simp. and trad.
(祖阿夫)

Etymology

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Borrowed from French Zouave or Arabic زَوَاوِيّ (zawāwiyy).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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祖阿夫

  1. (military, historical) Zouave (a kind of soldier in the French service, or the volunteer counterpart in the army of the United States in the Civil War)