tafur

Borrowed from Arabic تَكْفُور (takfūr, “Armenian king”), from Middle Armenian թագւոր (tʻagwor, “king”), from Old Armenian թագաւոր (tʻagawor, “king”), from Parthian *tag(a)-bar (“king”, literally “crown bearing”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [təˈfur]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) unknown
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [taˈfur]

tafur m (plural tafurs, feminine tafura)

1. a gambler, especially one who gambles professionally

• (professional gambler): tafurer

• tafurejar
• tafurer

• “tafur” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Perhaps related to Arabic طفران, tafraan, meaning pauper, have-not.

tafur oblique singular, m (oblique plural tafurs, nominative singular tafurs, nominative plural tafur)

1. Saracen
2. rascal
3. beggar

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (tafur)
• tafur on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

• taful

From Arabic تَكْفُور (takfūr, “Armenian king”), from Middle Armenian թագւոր (tʻagwor, “king”), from Old Armenian թագաւոր (tʻagawor, “king”), from Parthian *tag(a)-bar (“king”, literally “crown bearing”).

Cognate with Old Spanish tafur (Modern tahúr).

• IPA^(key): /ta.ˈfuɾ/

tafur m

1. gambler
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 154 (facsimile):

     Como un tafur tirou con hũa baeſta hũa seeta cõtra o ceo con ſanna p̈ q̇ pdera. p̃ q̃ cuidaua q̇ firia a deos o.ſ.M̃.

     How a gambler shot, with a crossbow, a bolt at the sky, wrathful because he had lost. Because he wanted it to wound God or Holy Mary.

• tafuraria

• Galician: tafur
• Portuguese: taful