unbeknownst to, unbeknown to, without the knowledge of
zıt: au vu et au su de
🔊 Il était content à son insu.
🔊 "[…] Mais le Québec se fait tous les jours et à l'insu de ceux qui ne voudraient pas qu'il se fasse comme à l'insu de ceux qui le font."
🔊 Cela ne se fait à l'insu de personne.
in secret
eş: a escuso, en escuso, escondidamente
(typically with di) behind · in an unexpected way; by surprise · by treachery; treacherously
eş: dietro, alla sprovvista, a tradimento
köken: Literally, “at the shoulders”.
aile: alle spalle di, guardarsi alle spalle
🔊 potete trovare i palloncini alle vostre spalle
🔊 lasciare alle spalle
secretive · furtive, stealthy
çekim: karşılaştırma heimelijker · üstünlük heimelijkst
köken: From Middle Dutch heimelijc, fro Proto-West Germanic *haimalīk. Equivalent to heim + -lijk.
aile: verheimelijken
sem o conhecimento de um determinado alguém
sneaky, devious ((marked by) secretly harboring ill intentions) · insidious, treacherous (appearing (somewhat) harmless but having hidden bad effects, of a disease or poisonous mushroom or the like)
çekim: karşılaştırma lömskare · üstünlük lömskast
köken: Inherited from Old Swedish liomsker, lömsker. Compare Icelandic lúmskur, lymskur. More distantly related to Icelandic lauma.
aile: lömsk flugsvamp
guileful, insidious, sly, sneaky, underhand · perfidious, treacherous (exhibiting treachery)
köken: Most likely borrowed from Polish podstępny. By surface analysis, пі́дступ (pídstup) + -ний (-nyj). Compare Belarusian падсту́пны (padstúpny).
mean, base, vile, devious, heinous
çekim: karşılaştırma katalampi · üstünlük katalin
köken: Proto-Finnic *katala. Compare kavala and kamala (from Proto-Finnic *kavala and *kamala) as well as ketale. Cognates include Estonian kadal (“bad, weak, miserable”) and Karelian katala (“pitiful”).
aile: katalasti, katalus, kataluus
çekim: karşılaştırma prohnanější · üstünlük nejprohnanější
aile: prohnanost
behind someone's back (when someone is not present) · behind someone's back (without somebody's knowledge, deliberately leaving someone out)
köken: a (“the”) + hát (“back”) + -a (“his/her/its”, possessive suffix) + mögött (“behind”), literally “behind one’s back”
🔊 A munkatársam szemben hízeleg a főnöknek, de a háta mögött gúnyt űz belőle.
🔊 Kati háta mögött eladták mindenét.
behind
🔊 Siapa yang di belakang saya?
ruse; cunning, sly
köken: Borrowed from French ruse, perhaps derived from Latin recūsāre, from recūsō (“to decline, refuse; to object to, protest, reject”).
aile: ruzaĵo, ruzeco, ruzi, ruzo, ruzulo, senruza, superruzi