mafé
French, noun\ma.fe\
mafé is spelled M-A-F-É (4 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written French, the 168,321st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mafé is a French masculine noun meaning “mafe” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ragoût répandu en Afrique de l’Ouest (Mali, Sénégal, Gambie, Mauritanie etc.) composé de riz et d’une sauce…”.
What does mafé mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemafe
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ragoût répandu en Afrique de l’Ouest (Mali, Sénégal, Gambie, Mauritanie etc.) composé de riz et d’une sauce onctueuse à la pâte d’arachide et à la tomate, avec souvent de la chair animale et des légumes.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of mafé
- mafés plural
- maafé
- maffé
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mafé?
- \ma.fe\
- [ma.fe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is mafé in French?
mafé appears about once in every 28 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).