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Mafia [(mah-fee-uh)] A criminal organization that originated in Sicily and was brought to the United States by Italian immigrants in the late nineteenth century. The Mafia is also called the Syndicate, the Mob, and the Cosa Nostra (Our Thing).
Word Origin & History. mafia 1875, from It. Mafia Sicilian secret society of criminals (the prevailing sense outside Sicily), earlier, spirit of hostility to the law and its ministers, from It. (Sicilian) mafia boldness, bravado, probably from Arabic mahjas aggressive, boasting, bragging..