absurdity; meaninglessness · a thing that is absurd
çekim: çoğul absurdités
eş: absurde, incohérence, non-sens
köken: Learned borrowing from Latin absurditās. By surface analysis, absurde + -ité.
🔊 l'absurdité de la vie
🔊 des absurdités
malarkey, malarky, nonsense, rubbish · silliness, absurdity
çekim: çoğul majaderías
eş: tontería, bobada, estupidez, sandez
köken: From majadero + -ía.
large bundle, bale, reap · falsehood, lie, malarkey · testicle, bollock
çekim: çoğul balle
eş: involto, fagotto, fardello, sacco, pacco, collo
köken: Uncertain. * From Old French balle, from Medieval Latin balla, from Frankish *ballu. * From Lombardic *palla, *balla. Both etymologies ultimately from Proto-Germanic *ballô, *balluz (“ball”). Doublet of palla. Cognate with Sicilian baḍḍa, whence the dialectal doublet badda.
aile: imballare, sballare
nonsense, rubbish · trifle
çekim: tamlayan чепухи́
eş: бессмыслица, ерунда, нонсенс, пурга, мура, чушь
köken: According to Vasmer, the exact etymology of this word is unknown. But it is said to be derived from a variant pronunciation of щепа́ (ščepá, “wood chips”), "чепа". Compare typologically вздор (vzdor) (possibly akin to драть (dratʹ)), дребеде́нь (drebedénʹ).
aile: чепуши́ла, чепуши́ло, чепуши́нник, чепуши́ть, чепуха́ на по́стном ма́сле
nonsense · foolishness · junk food
çekim: çoğul besteiras
eş: asneira, tolice, manota, bobagem, brebote, porcaria
köken: From besta (“stupid, idiot”) + -eira.
masturbation, wanking · stupidity, idiocy, nonsense, bullshit
çekim: çoğul μαλακίες · tamlayan μαλακίας
eş: βλακεία, χαζομάρα, ηλιθιότητα, κουταμάρα
köken: From Ancient Greek μαλακία (malakía, “self-indulgence, weakness”), from Ancient Greek μαλακός (malakós, “soft, effeminate”).
aile: δια πάσαν νόσον και μαλακίαν, τραβάω μαλακία
🔊 Η μαλακία σε κάνει τυφλό.
🔊 Όλο κάθεται και λέει μαλακίες.
vocative/accusative/nominative plural of brednia
nonsense, claptrap (meaningless words)
çekim: çoğul hölynpölyt · tamlayan hölynpölyn
köken: hölyn (genitive) + pöly, from hölistä and pölistä (picked for the rhyme)
nonsense
çekim: çoğul nonsensuri · tamlayan nonsensului
köken: Borrowed from French non-sens.
double Dutch, gibberish, jargon, nonsense (nonsensical talk, incomprehensible language)
çekim: çoğul halandzsák
köken: Coined by Frigyes Karinthy; first published in 1912.
aile: halandzsázik
an absurdity, a silly thing to say, a piece of nonsense
çekim: çoğul estirabots
köken: By metathesis from earlier (now dialectal) estaribot, from Spanish estribote, a satirical verse form.
🔊 Aquells estirabots no es poden acceptar.