köken: Uncertain. Originally from southern Italy, compare Neapolitan cafone, Sicilian cafuni, possibly of Oscan origin. Another theory traces it to the phrase c'a fune (literally “with a rope”), used to mock those from the countryside who would tie themselves to each other with rope to not get lost.
köken: Recorded in Astrakhan and among Greben Cossacks. Discernably, a transferred meaning of Kalmyk лох (lox, “aloe vera”), which relates through the Kalmyk home in Dzungaria to Chinese 蘆薈／芦荟 (lúhuì, “aloe vera”), see it for more.
köken: A form of the name Johannes, attested as a first name in 14th century. The same etymology applies to surnames Juntti, Junttinen, Junttila, Juntunen, Erkinjuntti etc.
buffoon, fool; boor · confused, bewildered, person
çekim: çoğul abhlóirí · tamlayan abhlóra
köken: From Old Irish oblóir, ablóir, oblaire m (“juggler”), possibly from obull (“juggler's ball”), a variant of ubull (“apple”) (compare modern úll).
köken: Etymology tree Esperanto kamparano Latin -āceus Latin -aceum Italian -accioder. Esperanto -aĉ- Esperanto kamparanaĉo From kamparano (“rural person”) + -aĉ- (“of low quality”).
A schlub, a boorish bumpkin, particularly if not Jewish.
köken: From Polish żłób (“manger, trough; furrow, large groove in the soil”). Originated in klezmer musician cant (Klezmer-loshn). The nature of the semantic shift from "manger, crib" to "boorish goy" remains unclear. In any case, by the year 1869, it had become common enough to be included in a Russian-Yiddish dictionary published in Zhytomyr. Jewish immigrants brought the word to the United States,…
uncouth, ignorant, unsophisticated, tasteless, illiterate, clumsy, country bumpkin
çekim: çoğul zagurdi
köken: Uncertain. Possibly derived from or cognate with an Old Occitan or Celtiberian stratum. Compare Latin gurdus (“dolt, numbskull, blockhead, dullard”), Norman gourd (“numb maladroit”) for the -gurdu part; and Spanish zahúrda (“pigsty”). Cfr., for a similar morphology, Italian balordo, Spanish palurdo, or Italian manigoldo/mundualdo. Compare also the morphosemantics of Spanish zurdo, which is unkown…
aile: zagurdata, zagurdijari, zagurdijata
Talè chi cumminau ḍḍu zagurdu.
cmn土包子, 鄉巴佬 /乡巴佬
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Etimoloji
Clipping of beau-frère (“brother-in-law”). Figurative sense named after Mon Beauf, a character created by French caricaturist Cabu.