kif-kif

Meaning

same, alike

Translations

Pronounced as (IPA)
/kif.kif/
Etymology

At first in soldiers’ slang among the Armée d’Afrique. From common Algerian Arabic كيف كيف (kīf kīf, “the same; in the same way”), from كيف (kīf, “how; like”), itself from Arabic كَيْفَ (kayfa).

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