köken: From Arabic بَنِي (banī, “sons of”) + oui oui, thus roughly “the tribe of yes-yes”. Originally referred disparagingly to the Muslim advisers employed by the French in colonial northern Africa, many of whom were servile and therefore ineffective.
marionette (puppet, usually made of wood, which is animated by the pulling of strings) · dupe, front man, puppet, stooge, straw man (one who knowingly allows himself or herself to be used for another's profit)
çekim: çoğul marionetki · tamlayan marionetki
eş: kukła, manekin
köken: Etymology tree French marionette Proto-Indo-European *-keh₂der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *-kāˀ Proto-Slavic *-ъka Old Polish -ka Polish -ka Polish marionetka From French marionette + Polish -ka.
köken: From earlier mù nhìn, attested in Chỉ nam ngọc âm giải nghĩa (指南玉音解義) as 戊忍 (MC muwH nyinX) (modern SV: mậu nhẫn). Vũ Đức Nghiệu (2019) relates the prefixal element bù to bồ ~ mồ - also found in bồ nâu (“dioscorea cirrhosa, dyeing yam”), bồ quân (“flacourtia jangomas, Indian coffee plum”), bồ hóng (“soot”), bồ hòn (“western soapberry (Sapindus saponaria) ← Chinese soapberry (Sapindus…