Mafia

• n. （イタリア語）秘密政党、マフィア。

イタリアのマフィア、シチリアの犯罪者秘密結社、シチリアのマフィア、勇敢、大胆不敵から。後に一般化。

mafia (n.)

1875, from Italian Mafia "Sicilian secret society of criminals" (the prevailing sense outside Sicily), earlier, "spirit of hostility to the law and its ministers," from Italian (Sicilian) mafia "boldness, bravado," probably from Arabic mahjas "aggressive, boasting, bragging." Or perhaps from Old French mafler "to gluttonize, devour." A member is a mafioso (1870), fem. mafiosa, plural mafiosi.

1. It would be surprising were the Mafia not to have muscled in.

マフィアが足を挟まなければ、かえっておかしい。

2.The Mafia is by no means ignored by Italian television.

イタリアのテレビ局はマフィアへの関心を決して見逃さない。

3.The government rushed through legislation aimed at Mafia leaders.

政府は急いでマフィアの首長に対する立法を可決した。

4.A cabinet minister came under investigation for links to the Mafia .

マフィアとの関連性が疑われている内閣大臣が調査を受けた。

5.He was made beholden to the Mafia .

彼はマフィアの恩恵を受けたことがある。