Where does “拉夫” come from?

拉夫 (Chinese) comes from Chinese 夫, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan pʷa — male, father, third-person pronoun.

拉夫 (Chinese): to press-gang; to press or force people into service

Definitions

  1. to press-gang; to press or force people into service

Ancestry of “拉夫”, step by step

拉夫 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Chinese 夫

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Chinese夫—
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanpʷamale, father, third-person pronoun

via Japanese 拉

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese拉pulled
2Chinese垃垃to be at; to be in
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan pʷa →Every word from Chinese 夫 →