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: Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic влъхвъ (vlŭxvŭ), from Old Church Slavonic влъснѫти (vlŭsnǫti, “to stutter”), referring to the trances the priests used in their ceremonies.
köken: Uncertain. Possibly from Iberian/Celtiberian *bruxtia (compare Galician, Mirandese, Aragonese, and Asturian bruxa; Spanish bruja; Catalan bruixa and Occitan bruèissa), from Proto-Celtic *brixtā (“spell, magic”) (compare Old Irish bricht (“charm”), Old Breton brith (“magic”)). It could instead be akin to a different Celtic word such as Old Irish Brigit (literally “high, exalted”).
a wandering salesman · a charlatan · a medical student drafted as an army physician, who is inexperienced and generally lacks medical expertise
köken: 돌— (dol-, “to wander”) + 팔— (pal-, “to sell”) + -이 (-i, noun-deriving suffix). The original sense is possibly archaic, and a folk etymology now claims that the first element is 돌 (dol, “stone”), with the idea that a charlatan is someone who sells stones pretending that they are something else.
köken: Inherited from Prakrit 𑀉𑀅𑀚𑁆𑀛𑀸𑀅 (uajjhāa), 𑀉𑀚𑁆𑀛𑀸𑀅 (ujjhāa), from Sanskrit उपाध्याय (upādhyāya, “teacher [of the Vedas]”). Notably borrowed into Middle Chinese 和尚 (MC hwa|hwaH dzyang|dzyangH, “high priest, head monk”). Doublet of उपाध्याय (upādhyāy) and ख़्वाजा (xvājā).