"mafia" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈmɑfi.ə/ [US], /ˈmæfi.ə/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mafia.wav [Southern-England] Forms: mafias [plural]
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. Head templates: {{en-noun}} mafia (plural mafias)
  1. A hierarchically structured secret organisation engaged in illegal activities like distribution of narcotics, gambling and extortion. Categories (topical): Collectives
    Sense id: en-mafia-en-noun-cE5z1Lii Disambiguation of Collectives: 42 36 4 17 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 56 6 5 34 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 69 7 5 19
  2. A crime syndicate. Categories (topical): Collectives, Corruption Translations (a crime syndicate): mafia (Albanian), مَافِيَا (māfiyā) [feminine] (Arabic), մաֆիա (mafia) (Armenian), mafia (Azerbaijani), ма́фія (máfija) [feminine] (Belarusian), ма́фия (máfija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), màfia [feminine] (Catalan), 黑手黨 (Chinese Mandarin), 黑手党 (hēishǒudǎng) (Chinese Mandarin), 秘密政黨 (Chinese Mandarin), 秘密政党 (mìmì zhèngdǎng) (Chinese Mandarin), 秘密集團 (Chinese Mandarin), 秘密集团 (mìmì jítuán) (Chinese Mandarin), mafie [feminine] (Czech), mafia (Danish), maffia [masculine] (Dutch), mafio (Esperanto), maffia (Estonian), mafia (Finnish), mafia [feminine] (French), mafia [feminine] (Galician), მაფია (mapia) (Georgian), Mafia [feminine] (German), μαφία (mafía) [feminine] (Greek), מַפִיָה (mafiya) [feminine] (Hebrew), माफ़िया (māfiyā) [masculine] (Hindi), maffia (Hungarian), mafia [feminine] (Italian), マフィア (mafia) (Japanese), 秘密集団 (himitsu shūdan) (alt: ひみつしゅうだん) (Japanese), やくざ (yakuza) (english: Japanese mafia) (Japanese), 黒手党 (kokushutō) (alt: こくしゅとう) (Japanese), мафия (mafiä) (Kazakh), 마피아 (mapia) (Korean), мафия (mafiya) (Kyrgyz), mafija [feminine] (Latvian), mafija [feminine] (Lithuanian), мафија (mafija) [feminine] (Macedonian), мафи (mafi) (Mongolian), mafia (Norwegian Bokmål), مافیا (mâfyâ) (Persian), mafia [feminine] (Polish), máfia [feminine] (Portuguese), mafie [feminine] (Romanian), ма́фия (máfija) [feminine] (Russian), мафија [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), mafija [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), mafia [feminine] (Slovak), mafija [feminine] (Slovene), mafia [feminine] (Spanish), maffia (Swedish), sindikato (Tagalog), мафия (mafiya) (Tajik), มาเฟีย (maa-fiia) (Thai), mafya (Turkish), mafiýa (Turkmen), ма́фія (máfija) [feminine] (Ukrainian), مافیا (māfiyā) [masculine] (Urdu), mafiya (Uzbek), xã hội đen (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-mafia-en-noun-Quyf5mT0 Disambiguation of Collectives: 42 36 4 17 Disambiguation of Corruption: 30 58 2 10 Disambiguation of 'a crime syndicate': 5 91 1 2
  3. A trusted group of associates, as of a political leader.
    Sense id: en-mafia-en-noun-lAS1EoKh
  4. (in compound terms such as "moral mafia") An entity which attempts to control a specified arena by violence or threats. Categories (topical): Collectives
    Sense id: en-mafia-en-noun-Ey3-tvo9 Disambiguation of Collectives: 42 36 4 17
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: alphabet mafia, mafia hypothesis, mafia state, nonmafia

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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "a crime syndicate",
          "tags": [
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          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "māfiyā",
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          "sense": "a crime syndicate",
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          "alt": "ひみつしゅうだん",
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          "roman": "himitsu shūdan",
          "sense": "a crime syndicate",
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          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "roman": "mafiä",
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          "_dis1": "5 91 1 2",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "mapia",
          "sense": "a crime syndicate",
          "word": "마피아"
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          "code": "ky",
          "lang": "Kyrgyz",
          "roman": "mafiya",
          "sense": "a crime syndicate",
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          "_dis1": "5 91 1 2",
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "a crime syndicate",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "mafija"
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          "code": "lt",
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          "sense": "a crime syndicate",
          "tags": [
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          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "mafija",
          "sense": "a crime syndicate",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "мафија"
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        {
          "_dis1": "5 91 1 2",
          "code": "mn",
          "lang": "Mongolian",
          "roman": "mafi",
          "sense": "a crime syndicate",
          "word": "мафи"
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          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "a crime syndicate",
          "word": "mafia"
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        {
          "_dis1": "5 91 1 2",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "mâfyâ",
          "sense": "a crime syndicate",
          "word": "مافیا"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 91 1 2",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "a crime syndicate",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "mafia"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 91 1 2",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "a crime syndicate",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "máfia"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 91 1 2",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "a crime syndicate",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "mafie"
        },
        {
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "máfija",
          "sense": "a crime syndicate",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ма́фия"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 91 1 2",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "a crime syndicate",
          "tags": [
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            "feminine"
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          "word": "мафија"
        },
        {
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          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "a crime syndicate",
          "tags": [
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        {
          "_dis1": "5 91 1 2",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "a crime syndicate",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "mafia"
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          "code": "sl",
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          "sense": "a crime syndicate",
          "tags": [
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          "_dis1": "5 91 1 2",
          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "a crime syndicate",
          "tags": [
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          "_dis1": "5 91 1 2",
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "a crime syndicate",
          "word": "sindikato"
        },
        {
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          "code": "tg",
          "lang": "Tajik",
          "roman": "mafiya",
          "sense": "a crime syndicate",
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        {
          "_dis1": "5 91 1 2",
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "maa-fiia",
          "sense": "a crime syndicate",
          "word": "มาเฟีย"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 91 1 2",
          "code": "tr",
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          "sense": "a crime syndicate",
          "word": "mafya"
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          "sense": "a crime syndicate",
          "word": "mafiýa"
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          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "máfija",
          "sense": "a crime syndicate",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "ма́фія"
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          "lang": "Urdu",
          "roman": "māfiyā",
          "sense": "a crime syndicate",
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          "lang": "Uzbek",
          "sense": "a crime syndicate",
          "word": "mafiya"
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          "_dis1": "5 91 1 2",
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "a crime syndicate",
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        {
          "ref": "1994, Francis Wheen, Lord Gnome's Literary Companion, page 161",
          "text": "Worse, it confirms what one always suspected about the 1930s literary mafia, with their graceless posing and relentless self-obsession — what terrible , terrible bores they were.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Senator Robert Torricelli, Andrew Carroll, In Our Own Words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century, page 432",
          "text": "Since the victory of gadgetry is \"inevitable,\" you might as well come along quietly and let us smother you in speed and convenience, says the digital mafia.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Anne Holt, In Dust and Ashes, page 83",
          "text": "I can scarcely leave the apartment without being engulfed by journalists, not to mention the fucking left-wing activists and the multicultural mafia that assailed me with spitting and verbal abuse the last time I ventured out […]",
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      "tags": [
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmæfi.ə/",
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    "mafia"
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}
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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
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    "English nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
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    {
      "word": "alphabet mafia"
    },
    {
      "word": "mafia hypothesis"
    },
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      "word": "mafia state"
    },
    {
      "word": "nonmafia"
    }
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        "A hierarchically structured secret organisation engaged in illegal activities like distribution of narcotics, gambling and extortion."
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          "leader"
        ]
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "ref": "1994, Francis Wheen, Lord Gnome's Literary Companion, page 161",
          "text": "Worse, it confirms what one always suspected about the 1930s literary mafia, with their graceless posing and relentless self-obsession — what terrible , terrible bores they were.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Senator Robert Torricelli, Andrew Carroll, In Our Own Words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century, page 432",
          "text": "Since the victory of gadgetry is \"inevitable,\" you might as well come along quietly and let us smother you in speed and convenience, says the digital mafia.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Anne Holt, In Dust and Ashes, page 83",
          "text": "I can scarcely leave the apartment without being engulfed by journalists, not to mention the fucking left-wing activists and the multicultural mafia that assailed me with spitting and verbal abuse the last time I ventured out […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "An entity which attempts to control a specified arena by violence or threats."
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      "tags": [
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    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "word": "mafia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "māfiyā",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "مَافِيَا"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "mafia",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "word": "մաֆիա"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "word": "mafia"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "máfija",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ма́фія"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "máfija",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ма́фия"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "màfia"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "word": "黑手黨"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "hēishǒudǎng",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "word": "黑手党"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "word": "秘密政黨"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "mìmì zhèngdǎng",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "word": "秘密政党"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "word": "秘密集團"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "mìmì jítuán",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "word": "秘密集团"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mafie"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "word": "mafia"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "maffia"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "word": "mafio"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "word": "maffia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "word": "mafia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mafia"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mafia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "mapia",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "word": "მაფია"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Mafia"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "mafía",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "μαφία"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "mafiya",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "מַפִיָה"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "māfiyā",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "माफ़िया"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "word": "maffia"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mafia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "mafia",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "word": "マフィア"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ひみつしゅうだん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "himitsu shūdan",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "word": "秘密集団"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "english": "Japanese mafia",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "yakuza",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "word": "やくざ"
    },
    {
      "alt": "こくしゅとう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kokushutō",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "word": "黒手党"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "mafiä",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "word": "мафия"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "mapia",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "word": "마피아"
    },
    {
      "code": "ky",
      "lang": "Kyrgyz",
      "roman": "mafiya",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "word": "мафия"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mafija"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mafija"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "mafija",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "мафија"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "mafi",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "word": "мафи"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "word": "mafia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "mâfyâ",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "word": "مافیا"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mafia"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "máfia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mafie"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "máfija",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ма́фия"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "мафија"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mafija"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mafia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mafija"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mafia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "word": "maffia"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "word": "sindikato"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "mafiya",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "word": "мафия"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "maa-fiia",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "word": "มาเฟีย"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "word": "mafya"
    },
    {
      "code": "tk",
      "lang": "Turkmen",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "word": "mafiýa"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "máfija",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ма́фія"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "māfiyā",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "مافیا"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "word": "mafiya"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "a crime syndicate",
      "word": "xã hội đen"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "mafia"
  ],
  "word": "mafia"
}

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