šifra

Borrowed from German Chiffre, from French chiffre (“digit, cipher”) from Italian cifra (“digit, cipher”), originally from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “zero, empty, nothing”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃɪfra]

šifra f

1. cipher (method for concealing the meaning of text)
2. cipher (cryptographic system using an algorithm)

• “šifra”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “šifra”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “šifra”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Borrowed from French chiffre (“digit, cipher”), from Medieval Latin cifra (“zero”), from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “zero, empty, nothing”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃîfra/

šȉfra f (Cyrillic spelling ши̏фра)

1. code, cipher (method for concealing the meaning of text)

   Synonym: kȏd

2. password, passcode

   Synonyms: lòzīnka, zápōrka

• “šifra”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024