smokescreen · smokescreen, smoke and mirrors
çekim: çoğul écrans de fumée
eş: rideau de fumée
minor sickness, malady especially a cold · default, failing · subject, issue, topic
çekim: çoğul achaques
eş: defecto, tacha, vicio, menstruación, menstruo, mes
köken: Probably deverbal from achacar, from Arabic. Alternatively the Spanish noun might be from Arabic الشَكْوَى (aš-šakwā, “complaint”) with the verb then denominal.
aile: achacoso
excuse, pretext
çekim: çoğul pretesti
eş: cavillo, giustificazione, motivo, ragione, ripiego, scappatoia
köken: From Latin praetextum (“an ornament, etc., wrought in front, a pretense”), neuter of praetextus, past participle of praetexō (“to weave before, fringe or border, allege”).
aile: pretestare, pretestuoso
means, instrument, expedient · pretext, pretense, guise
çekim: çoğul ذَرَائِع · tamlayan ذَرِيعَةٍ
köken: Instance noun from the root ذ ر ع (ḏ r ʕ).
excuse (explanation designed to avoid guilt)
çekim: çoğul بهانهها
köken: Inherited from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (wh'nk' /wihānag/), from Proto-Iranian [Term?].
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pretext (for something to be done)
çekim: çoğul bəhanələr · tamlayan bəhanənin
köken: From Persian بهانه (behâne).
cause, pretext · excuse
çekim: çoğul шылтоолор · tamlayan шылтоонун
coverup (only used figuratively), guise, facade · disguise
çekim: çoğul dekmantels
köken: From dekken (“to cover”) + mantel (“cloak”).
smokescreen (smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover, as of troops in battle) · smokescreen (anything used metaphorically to conceal or distract)
çekim: çoğul cortinas de fumaça
eş: cortina de fumo
pretext, pretense (a false, contrived, or assumed purpose or reason)
çekim: çoğul προσχήματα · tamlayan προσχήματος
köken: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πρόσχημα (próskhēma).
aile: προσχηματικός
smokescreen
köken: Sino-Korean word from 煙幕.
smokescreen
çekim: çoğul dimridåer · tamlayan dimridås
köken: dimma + ridå. Attested since 1950.
excuse, pretext
çekim: çoğul preteksty · tamlayan pretekstu
eş: pozór, wymówka
köken: Borrowed from French prétexte, from Latin praetextum, neuter of praetextus, past participle of praetexēre.
aile: pretekstowy
Hintçe 🔊 बहाना (eril) /bə.ɦɑː.nɑː/ excuse, justification · pretext, pretence
çekim: çoğul बहाने
eş: मिस
köken: Borrowed from Classical Persian بهانه (bahāna). Compare Bengali বাহানা (bahana), Gujarati બહાનું (bahānũ) and Marathi बहाणा (bahāṇā).
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A smokescreen · A smoke (military: screening smoke).
çekim: çoğul savuverhot · tamlayan savuverhon
köken: savu + verho
verbal noun of předstírat · pretense (US), pretence (UK)
çekim: çoğul předstíráním
eş: fingování, simulace, simulování, imitování
mask · disguise, camouflage, cover-up · larva
çekim: çoğul álcák
köken: Shortening of álorca.
aile: álcáz
excuse
köken: From Aramaic אֲמַתְלָא.
inflection of praetextus: · accusative masculine singular
çekim: çoğul praetexta · tamlayan praetextī
köken: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
pretext (false or contrived reason) · excuse (explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment)
çekim: çoğul påskuddene · tamlayan påskuds
köken: på + skud.
reason, excuse, pretext
köken: Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 故 (“cause, reason”, SV: cố).
aile: cớ sự, hà cớ, for what reason, what is the purpose, hà cớ gì, why in the world, mượn cớ, nguyên cớ, cause