köken: Disputed. Possibly by assimilation from Hebrew בָּרוּךְ הַבָּא (barúkh habá, “blessed (be) who comes”), a collocation occurring in Psalm 118:26 and an interjection meaning “welcome” in Modern Hebrew. An alternative theory holds that the origin is onomatopoeic. In regards to the semantic evolution to “noisy meeting”, compare ramdam, sabbat.
Un brouhaha, une tempête d’exclamations accueillit ces paroles.
köken: Onomatopoeic. Possibly from Middle High German brūsen + -io (frequentative), from Old High German *brūsen, from Proto-Germanic *brausijaną (“to break; crack; crackle”).
noise, racket (loud, unwanted noise disturbance) · trouble, commotion, bother (difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation)
çekim: çoğul φασαρίες · tamlayan φασαρίας
köken: From Italian fesseria (“stupidity, nonsense”).
köken: From Arabic غَاغَة (ḡāḡa, “mob, crowd”). The word is an extreme example of how the loss/vowelisation of għ has weakened the phonetic shapes of many words in Maltese. One might think that għagħa would subsequently have come out of use, but it remains common.