hearsay, scuttlebutt, gossip, rumor, idle chatter (information that was heard by one person about another that cannot be adequately substantiated)
çekim: çoğul mendemondák
köken: mende + monda, a reduplication of monda (“s/he said”), the obsolete past tense of mond (“to say”). Its original form was probably monda-monda and it referred to the repeated saying of a story or news. The vowels dissimilated in the first part.