quack, quacksalver (unqualified healer or incompetent doctor; male or unspecified sex)
çekim: çoğul Quacksalbern · tamlayan Quacksalbers
köken: 16th century, from Dutch kwakzalver, derived from Middle Dutch quacsalven (unsure whether verb or noun). Further origin disputed, though the second component is definitely Dutch zalf (“salve”).
köken: A blend of ciarlatore (“chatterer”) (see ciarlare (“to chatter”)) + cerretano (“hawker, quack”, literally “native of Cerreto”) (Cerreto di Spoleto being a village in Umbria, known for its quacks).
köken: Via German Scharlatan (“charlatan; quack”), from French charlatan (“charlatan; quack”), from Italian ciarlatano (“charlatan; quack”), a blend of ciarlatore (“chatterer”) + cerretano (“hawker, quack”, literally “native of Cerreto”).
köken: Borrowed from Arabic تَغْلِيط (taḡlīṭ), verbal noun of غَلَّطَ (ḡallaṭa, “to cause to err”). Connected to ღალატი (ɣalaṭi), which is from the same source.
aile: თაღლითობს
Makedoncaшарлата́н
Kannadaಅಳಲೆಕಾಯಿ ಪಂಡಿತ
gdsionnal
grcὀχλαγωγός
iosharlatano
Etimoloji
Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *ludraz (“useless; worthless; bad”). Compare Old English loddere, Old High German lotar (“vain; void; insignificant”), Middle High German lotter. See also Czech lotr and Polish łotr.