mafia

Etymology
See Mafia. The sense "entity which attempts to control a specified arena" makes an analogy to crime-syndicate mafias' attempts to control certain kinds of business in the regions in which they exist.

Noun

 * 1) A hierarchically structured secret organisation engaged in illegal activities like distribution of narcotics, gambling and extortion.
 * 2) A crime syndicate.
 * 3) A trusted group of associates, as of a political leader.
 * 4)  An entity which attempts to control a specified arena by violence or threats.

Translations

 * Albanian: mafia
 * Arabic: مَافِيَا
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: mafia
 * Belarusian: ма́фія
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: màfia
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 秘密政黨, 秘密集團
 * Czech:
 * Danish: mafia
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: mafio
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მაფია
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: माफ़िया
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 秘密集団, , 黒手党
 * Kazakh: мафия
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz: мафия
 * Latvian: mafija
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: мафија
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: mafia
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: мафија
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: mafia
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: sindikato
 * Tajik: мафия
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: mafiýa
 * Ukrainian: ма́фія
 * Urdu: مافیا
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) A.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) mafia

Noun

 * 1) the Mafia

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) Mafia (Italian Mafia)
 * 2) Mafia (any criminal organisation)

Etymology
, of origin. Most likely from (compare 🇨🇬 to crush, though 🇨🇬  is considered another possible source.

Noun

 * 1) the Mafia (International organized crime organization)
 * 2)  (Individual branch)
 * 3) arrogance

Noun

 * , Mafia

Noun

 * , Mafia

Etymology
, from.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) Mafia (Italian Mafia)
 * 2) Mafia (any criminal organization)