祖阿夫
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Chinese
[edit]ancestor; forefather; grandparents | phonetic; (final part.); (interj.) phonetic; (final part.); (interj.); flatter; an initial particle; prefix to names of people |
husband; man | ||
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simp. and trad. (祖阿夫) |
祖 | 阿 | 夫 |
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French Zouave or Arabic زَوَاوِيّ (zawāwiyy).
Pronunciation
[edit]- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄗㄨˇ ㄚ ㄈㄨ
- Tongyong Pinyin: zǔ-afu
- Wade–Giles: tsu3-a1-fu1
- Yale: dzǔ-ā-fū
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzuuafu
- Palladius: цзу’афу (czu’afu)
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡su²¹⁴⁻²¹ ˀä⁵⁵ fu⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
Noun
[edit]祖阿夫
- (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)