chufa

Borrowed from Spanish chufa, possibly from Latin cȳphi (“gallingale perfume”), from Ancient Greek κῦφι (kûphi, “a kind of Egyptian incense”), from Egyptian kꜣpt (“incense”), a nominal derivative of kꜣp (“to cense”).

chufa (countable and uncountable, plural chufas)

1. Cyperus esculentus, a species of sedge native to warm temperate to subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere having small edible tubers (tiger nuts).
   • 2001, Clifford A. Wright, Mediterranean Vegetables, Harvard Common Press, →ISBN, page 119:

     Chufa is most popular in two places in the Mediterranean, Spain and Egypt (especially around Damietta). In Spain, especially in the region of Valencia, chufa is used to make a drink called horchata.

   • 2004, Harold McGee, chapter 6, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:

     The chinese water chestnut and the tiger nut, or chufa, are both members of the sedge family, a group of water grasses that includes papyrus.

• chufa sedge, yellow nutsedge, tigernut sedge, earthalmond

• Cyperus esculentus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cyperus esculentus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Cyperus esculentus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• fauch

From Old Galician-Portuguese chufa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria). Back-formation from chufar (“to brag”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃufa̝/

chufa m (plural chufas)

1. mockery; joke; witty
2. flattery, praise
3. boast, brag

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “chufa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “chufa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “chufa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “chufa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “chufa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

chufa

1. inflection of chufar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Hyphenation: chu‧fa

chufa

1. inflection of chufar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃufa/ [ˈt͡ʃu.fa]

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• Rhymes: -ufa
• Syllabification: chu‧fa

Not completely certain. Suggested from Latin cȳphi (“gallingale perfume”), but the continuity of this word is doubtful. Perhaps instead the same word as trufa.

chufa f (plural chufas)

1. chufa

   Synonyms: cuca, alcatufa

2. tiger nut (edible tuber of that plant)

• → English: chufa

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

chufa f (plural chufas)

1. (colloquial) slap in the face

   Synonyms: bofetada, tortazo

2. (archaic, colloquial) lie

   Synonyms: burla, mofa, mentira

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

chufa

1. inflection of chufar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “chufa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024