chifa.
a Chinese restaurant
Meaning & usage
a Chinese restaurant
Peruvian Chinese cuisine
Where this word comes from
Unknown. Perhaps from Cantonese 煮飯／煮饭 (zyu² faan⁶) or Taishanese 煮飯 /煮饭 (zi² fan⁵). The Comisión Lexicografía de la Academia Peruana (CLAP) proposed that it is from Cantonese 食飯喇 (sik⁶ faan⁶ laa³). Compare Spanish chaufa, from Cantonese 炒飯／炒饭 (caau² faan⁶). Sometimes said to be from Mandarin 吃飯／吃饭 (chīfàn), but this is improbable as the Chinese Peruvians are from southern China.
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