The Mafia uses legitimate business operations as a front.
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Mafia
//ˈmɑfi.ə//
Synonyms for "mafia" (36 found)
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Proper Noun(1 words)
Noun(1 words)
Strong matches (10)
Noun(1 words)
Proper Noun(1 words)
Related words (18)
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26 entriesShowing 16 of 26 words.
Translations
92 translations across 62 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- mafia noun (a crime syndicate)
Arabic
2 entries- مافيا name (international criminal organisation of Sicilian origin)
- مَافِيَا noun (a crime syndicate)
Armenian
1 entries- մաֆիա noun (a crime syndicate)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- mafiya noun (a crime syndicate)
Belarusian
1 entries- ма́фія noun (a crime syndicate)
Bengali
1 entries- মাফিয়া noun (a crime syndicate)
Bulgarian
1 entries- ма́фия noun (a crime syndicate)
Burmese
1 entries- မာဖီးယား noun (a crime syndicate)
Catalan
1 entries- màfia noun (a crime syndicate)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- killer (kiu¹ laa², kiu¹ laa⁴) name (party game)
- 黑手黨 /黑手党 name (international criminal organisation of Sicilian origin)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 狼人殺 /狼人杀 name (party game)
- 黑手黨 /黑手党 name (international criminal organisation of Sicilian origin)
- 秘密政黨 /秘密政党 noun (a crime syndicate)
- 秘密集團 /秘密集团 noun (a crime syndicate)
Czech
3 entries- mafie name (international criminal organisation of Sicilian origin)
- mafie name (organized criminal syndicate)
- mafie noun (a crime syndicate)
Danish
1 entries- mafia noun (a crime syndicate)
Dutch
1 entries- maffia noun (a crime syndicate)
Esperanto
3 entries- Mafio name (international criminal organisation of Sicilian origin)
- mafio name (organized criminal syndicate)
- mafio noun (a crime syndicate)
Estonian
1 entries- maffia noun (a crime syndicate)
Finnish
3 entries- mafia name (international criminal organisation of Sicilian origin)
- mafia name (organized criminal syndicate)
- mafia noun (a crime syndicate)
French
1 entries- mafia noun (a crime syndicate)
Galician
1 entries- mafia noun (a crime syndicate)
Georgian
1 entries- მაფია noun (a crime syndicate)
German
3 entries- Mafia name (international criminal organisation of Sicilian origin)
- Mafia name (organized criminal syndicate)
- Mafia noun (a crime syndicate)
Greek
3 entries- Μαφία name (international criminal organisation of Sicilian origin)
- μαφία name (organized criminal syndicate)
- μαφία noun (a crime syndicate)
Hebrew
1 entries- מַפִיָה noun (a crime syndicate)
Hindi
1 entries- माफ़िया noun (a crime syndicate)
Hungarian
3 entries- gyilkosos name (organized criminal syndicate)
- maffia name (organized criminal syndicate)
- maffia noun (a crime syndicate)
Icelandic
1 entries- mafía noun (a crime syndicate)
Indonesian
1 entries- mafia noun (a crime syndicate)
Iranian Persian
1 entries- مافْیا noun (a crime syndicate)
Irish
1 entries- maifia noun (a crime syndicate)
Italian
3 entries- Mafia name (international criminal organisation of Sicilian origin)
- mafia name (organized criminal syndicate)
- mafia noun (a crime syndicate)
Japanese
4 entries- 人狼ゲーム name (party game)
- やくざ noun (a crime syndicate)
- マフィア noun (a crime syndicate)
- 秘密集団 noun (a crime syndicate)
Kazakh
1 entries- мафия noun (a crime syndicate)
Korean
2 entries- 마피아 게임 name (party game)
- 마피아 noun (a crime syndicate)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- мафия noun (a crime syndicate)
Latvian
1 entries- mafija noun (a crime syndicate)
Lithuanian
1 entries- mafija noun (a crime syndicate)
Macedonian
1 entries- мафија noun (a crime syndicate)
Malay
1 entries- mafia noun (a crime syndicate)
Marathi
1 entries- माफिया noun (a crime syndicate)
Mongolian
1 entries- мафи noun (a crime syndicate)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- mafya noun (a crime syndicate)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- mafia noun (a crime syndicate)
Polish
1 entries- mafia noun (a crime syndicate)
Portuguese
1 entries- máfia noun (a crime syndicate)
Romanian
3 entries- Mafia name (international criminal organisation of Sicilian origin)
- mafie name (organized criminal syndicate)
- mafie noun (a crime syndicate)
Russian
1 entries- ма́фия noun (a crime syndicate)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- máfija noun (a crime syndicate)
- ма́фија noun (a crime syndicate)
Sicilian
2 entries- Mafia name (international criminal organisation of Sicilian origin)
- mafia name (organized criminal syndicate)
Slovak
1 entries- mafia noun (a crime syndicate)
Slovene
1 entries- mafija noun (a crime syndicate)
Spanish
1 entries- mafia noun (a crime syndicate)
Swedish
1 entries- maffia noun (a crime syndicate)
Tagalog
2 entries- mafia noun (a crime syndicate)
- sindikato noun (a crime syndicate)
Tajik
1 entries- мафия noun (a crime syndicate)
Thai
1 entries- มาเฟีย noun (a crime syndicate)
Turkish
1 entries- mafya noun (a crime syndicate)
Turkmen
1 entries- mafiýa noun (a crime syndicate)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ма́фія noun (a crime syndicate)
Urdu
1 entries- مافِیا noun (a crime syndicate)
Uyghur
1 entries- مافىيا noun (a crime syndicate)
Uzbek
1 entries- mafiya noun (a crime syndicate)
Vietnamese
1 entries- xã hội đen noun (a crime syndicate)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
In the "Mafia" tradition of organized crime secret societies, any member who discloses its operation is sure to be rubbed out.
Source: tatoeba (273965)
The trial lawyers couldn't get past the Mafia leader's stonewalling tactics.
Source: tatoeba (321041)
Drug money and Mafia money are often blood money.
Source: tatoeba (322285)
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