köken: Inherited from Latin contrā. Old Spanish had cuentra as well, with diphthongization of stressed Latin /ŏ/. As the word was generally atonic, the unstressed variant contra prevailed over time.
aile: contra el tiempo, contra viento y marea, contrarreforma, contrarrevolucionario, contratapa, contraventana, crimen contra naturaleza, en contra, en contra de, por contra
la lucha contra el prejuicio
La selección masculina de baloncesto de EE.UU. avanzó a las semifinales de los Juegos Olímpicos con una victoria por 95-81 contra España.
köken: Shortening of заключённый каналоармеец (zaključónnyj kanaloarmejec), via the initialism З-К. Заключённый is the adjective "prisoner". Каналоармеец, "member of the canal army", was coined in an analogy with the words красноармеец meaning "member of the Red Army" or трудоармеец (member of a labor army). In 1932, when Anastas Mikoyan visited the construction of the White Sea – Baltic Canal, Lazar…
to cheat or deceive · to lie · to evade a question or deflect attention; to gloss over a mistake; to fudge; to bullshit
çekim: geçmiş ごまかした
eş: いつわる, かくす, とりつくろう, はぐらかす, だます, 煙に巻く
köken: First recorded in the Edo period. According to one theory, formed from 護摩 (goma, “a holy fire in esoteric Buddhism”) + verbalizing suffix かす (kasu), from a common fraud perpetrated in the Edo period of dressing as a monk and selling regular ash purported to be ash from such holy fires. Alternatively, from 胡麻菓子 (goma kashi, “sesame candy”), from a particular sesame candy in the Edo period called…
obstacle, barrier (an object that makes movement along a certain trajectory difficult or impossible) · obstacle, hindrance (object or event that hampers, hinders, or prevents a certain action) · a rung in a ladder
Uncertain, but proposed to be a Baltic loan (whence Lithuanian žaizda (“wound”)), or alternatively possibly from earlier *hagitta and then from Proto-Norse *hagiþō, compare Swedish hejd. Cognate with Karelian haitta.