to trick, to fool, to take in, to run circles around, to hoodwink
çekim: geçmiş berné · ortaç berné · şimdiki berne · ulaç bernant
eş: bafouer, gausser, jouer, rouler dans la farine
köken: Inherited from Old French bren (“bran, excrement”), with metathesis (circa 1480s), having first had the meaning of "vanner le blé" or the scatological meaning of "fouiller d'excréments" present in Rabelais' writings. For semantic development, compare terms like shit talk.
köken: From Middle Persian kyt' (kēd, “soothsayer, magician”) (compare Parthian qydyg (“astrologer”), from Old Persian [script needed] (kayāda-, “astrologer”).
fraud, swindle (an act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain) · swindler, fraud (a person who performs any such trick)
to con, swindle, cheat, trick, deceive, hoax, defraud
çekim: geçmiş huijannut · şimdiki huijaa · ulaç huijaava
köken: Uncertain, has sometimes been theorized to be a borrowing from Proto-Germanic *swīkwaną (suggesting derivation through Proto-Finnic *huigat'ak, although no other Finnic cognates are known). Compare huikata, huikkia (“to barter”).
fruit: product of a tree or other plant. · lace: ornamental fabric made of threads. · specially modified or adapted pattern, way, style, or stance (of fighting).
Etymology tree Latin mysta Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-fakāō Latin -ficōder. French -ifier French mystifier French -ification French mystificationbor. Polish mistyfikacja Borrowed from French mystification.