aile: hyperjoueur, joueur de badminton, joueur de basket-ball, joueur de billard, joueur de deuxième but, joueur de football, joueur de golf, joueur de hockey sur glace, joueur de polo, joueur de premier but
köken: Probably from Latin bārō (“simpleton”). Or, from Late Latin baraliāre (“dispute, quarrel”), probably from Paleo-Hispanic. Cognate with Spanish barajar and Catalan baralla (“deck of cards”), Portuguese baralhar (“to shuffle cards”).
a cardsharp (someone who cheats at cards) · a cheat (someone who cheats at games more generally) · someone who engages in dishonest dealings, a hustler
köken: con (classifier for person held in low respect) + bạc (“gamble”, as in cờ bạc).
Etimoloji
Inherited from Old Spanish tafur, from Arabic تَكْفُور (takfūr, “Armenian king”), from Middle Armenian թագւոր (tʻagwor, “king”), from Old Armenian թագաւոր (tʻagawor, “king”), from Parthian *tag(a)-bar (“king”, literally “crown bearing”). The first part goes back to Proto-Indo-European *teg-, the second part goes back to Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-. Cognate with Galician tafur, Portuguese taful and…