this and that
eş: dies und jenes, dieses und jenes, allerlei, mancherlei, Verschiedenes
🔊 1912, Martin Luther, Lutherbibel von 1912, 2 Kings 6:31 (with KJV translation)
thing
çekim: çoğul choses
eş: machin-chose, Machin Chouette, Truc Machin-Chouette
köken: Inherited from Middle French chose, from Old French chose, from Latin causa. Compare Italian cosa, Portuguese coisa, Spanish cosa among many others. Compare cause, a borrowed doublet.
aile: à peu de choses près, autre chose, avant toutes choses, c'est la moindre des choses, chose du passé, chose jugée, chose promise, chose due, chose-bine, chosifier, chosisme
female equivalent of Fulano
çekim: çoğul fulanas
разг. разное; одно и другое (говорить, рассказывать и т. п.)
so-and-so
köken: From Middle Persian 𐭥𐭠𐭧𐭬𐭠𐭭𐭩 (ʿʾḥmʾny /wāhmān/, “so-and-so”). Compare Northern Kurdish bêhvan (“so-and-so”) and wihan (“so, like this”).
🔊 فلان و بهمان
such-and-such, so-and-so (unstated, given)
köken: From Arabic فُلَان (fulān, “so-and-so”).
🔊 Фәлән райондың фәлән ауылында тора ти.
this and that
köken: Literally, “this and that”.
what's-his-name; so-and-so (placeholder name)
çekim: çoğul beltranos
eş: beltrão
köken: From the given name Beltrano, either from Spanish or modified from Beltrão.
such-and-such, so-and-so
eş: τάδε
this and that (various things)
köken: Borrowed from Low German dit un dat (“this and that”). Compare Norwegian ditt og datt.
🔊 Vi öppnade en flaska vin och pratade om ditt och datt. Gamla minnen och så.
so-and-so (name used to take the place of an epithet)
so-and-so; whoever
köken: Inherited from Vulgar Latin *eccum tālis. Compare Old Catalan aital, Italian cotale.
Vietnamca 🔊 này nọ /naj˨˩ nɔ˧˨ʔ/ this and that; this, that, and the other
contraction of aquel + outro, literally “that [far] other; the other one by there”
çekim: çoğul aqueloutros
köken: Attested since 1807.
aile: aqueloutrar
this and that
köken: Literally, “this and the other”.
anyone at all, John Doe, the man on the street
çekim: çoğul ajnuloj
köken: Etymology tree Esperanto ajn Esperanto -ulo Esperanto ajnulo From ajn + -ulo.
so-and-so, that bloke; a placeholder for a person whose name one cannot or does not want to mention, as in the phrase; "wieħed flien".
çekim: çoğul flejjen
köken: Etymology tree Arabic فُلَان (fulān) Maltese flien Inherited from Arabic فُلَان (fulān).