a club wielded as a weapon · a young rascal · a knave, a boy
çekim: çoğul Bengeln · tamlayan Bengels
eş: Lausejunge, Lausbub, Flegel
köken: From Middle High German bengel, from Old High German *bengil (“club", "stick", "hammer”), from Proto-West Germanic *bangil, from Proto-Germanic *bangilaz (“club, hammer”), from Proto-Germanic *bang- (“to beat”).
rabble, riffraff · rascal, blackguard, scoundrel, scum · clever person
çekim: çoğul canailles
eş: salaud, quenaille
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓder. Latin canēs Latin canisder. Vulgar Latin *canālia Italian canagliabor. Middle French canaille French canaille Inherited from Middle French canaille, from Italian canaglia.
scoundrel, villain, blackguard, bastard, degenerate · Term of abuse
çekim: çoğul canalhas
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓder. Latin canēs Latin canisder. Vulgar Latin *canālia Italian canagliabor. Portuguese canalha Borrowed from Italian canaglia, ultimately equivalent to cão + -alha.
köken: Uncertain. Possibly a clipping of malimończyk, marymontczyk (“student/professor/baked good from Marymont”), itself probably from French Mariemont (“Mount Mary”), where the element was influenced by a dialectal pronunciation of the prefix anty- (dialectally ancy-), which often has a negative connotation, with sound changes being marymontczyk > marymon > ancymon. First attested in 1914. Compare…
rascal, urchin (a mischievous boy) · scoundrel (a person without honour or virtue) · chicken vendor
çekim: çoğul csibészek
köken: From csibe (“baby chicken”) + -ész (noun-forming suffix denoting an occupation). Its original meaning csibeárus (“chicken vendor”) is obsolete. The modern meaning was influenced by csirkefogó (“rascal, scoundrel”, literally “chicken-catcher”).
yoke-bearer (a term of abuse, usually of slaves) · rascal, scoundrel, rogue
çekim: çoğul furciferī · tamlayan furciferī
köken: Etymology tree Latin furca Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *bʰorós Proto-Italic *-foros Latin -fer Latin furcifer From furca + -fer.
köken: Etymology tree Esperanto bubo Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂-k-s Proto-Italic *-āks Latin -āx Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Indo-European *-éyos Proto-Italic *-ejos Proto-Italic *-eos Latin -eus Latin -āceus Latin -aceum Italian -accioder. Esperanto -aĉ- Esperanto bubaĉo From bubo + -aĉ-.
köken: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish منكوب (menkûb, menkûp), from Arabic مَنْكُوب (mankūb, “afflicted, troubled, injured”), from the root ن ك ب (n k b), akin to نَكْبَة (nakba).
Borrowed from Russian дурак (durak). Often supposed to have been borrowed during the War of the Sixth Coalition from Ukrainian cossacks stationed in the Low Countries, but only attested considerably later. In Russian, the basic meaning is fool, without a connotation of mischief.