köken: From imbrogliare (“to tangle”), cognate with and probably from an earlier form of French embrouiller (“muddle, embroil”), from em- (“en-”) + brouiller.
fraud, swindle (an act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain) · swindler, fraud (a person who performs any such trick)
köken: Borrowed from French martingale, from Middle French martingale, from Provençal martegalo, feminine form of martegal, an inhabitant of Martigues.
çekim: geçmiş cúigleáilte · ortaç cúigleáilte · şimdiki cúigleálann sé
köken: If Dinneen’s definition “cheating by sleight of hand” is the oldest sense, perhaps from cúig (“five”) in reference to the five fingers of the hand.
köken: Of unclear origin. Pokorny tentatively derives the word from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp-, from *kh₂em- (“bend, curve”); compare Albanian këmbë (“leg, foot”). Mayrhofer finds the above derivation unconvincing; he originally preferred taking the word as a Dravidian borrowing, with original form *kapardu (whence perhaps कपर्द (kaparda)), comparing the term to कूट (kūṭa, “false”) and Tamil கோடு…