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Probable: The majority view, with some reservations.Expressions · Common

zafio

coarse, crude, uncouthtosco, grosero, sin educación

Comes from Arabic

سَفِيه

safīh

“foolish, senseless”«necio, insensato»

Arabic today says

فَظّ

faẓẓ

Root

س ف ه

s-f-h

The article

It came in without the article.

The story

The safīh is the fool who doesn't know how to behave; in Spanish the emphasis shifted from lack of judgment to lack of manners. Arabic s became z here, as in other loanwords.El safīh es el necio que no sabe comportarse; en español el acento pasó de la falta de juicio a la falta de modales. La s árabe dio aquí z, como en otros préstamos.

In a sentence

Su humor es demasiado zafio para mí.

His humor is too crude for me.

مِزَاحُهُ فَظٌّ أَكْثَرَ مِمَّا أَحْتَمِل.

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