chufa

Borrowed from Spanish chufa, from Latin cyphi (“gallingale perfume”).

chufa (plural chufas)

1. Cyperus esculentus, a species of sedge native to warm temperate to subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere having small edible tubers.

• chufa sedge, yellow nutsedge, tigernut sedge, earthalmond

• Cyperus esculentus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cyperus esculentus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

• fauch

From Old Galician and Old 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

• “chufa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “chufa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “chufa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “chufa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “chufa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Latin cyphi (“gallingale perfume”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃufa/

chufa f (plural chufas)

1. chufa
2. edible tuber of that plant, tiger nut

• cuca
• alcatufa

chufa

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of chufar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of chufar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of chufar.