köken: Borrowed from French truc. Omitting several steps, from Vulgar Latin *trūdicāre (< Latin trūdō + -icō). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *trewd-.
köken: From Middle Persian kyt' (kēd, “soothsayer, magician”) (compare Parthian qydyg (“astrologer”), from Old Persian [script needed] (kayāda-, “astrologer”).
device · construction (anything that has been constructed) · ruse, dodge, trick, catch
çekim: çoğul qurğular · tamlayan qurğunun
köken: From qur- + -ğu. The sense 'device' is likely a semantic loan from Russian устро́йство (ustrójstvo). Compare Kazakh құрылғы (qūrylğy) and Uyghur قۇرۇلما (qurulma), etc., for a similar development.
köken: Inherited from Byzantine Greek πονηριά (ponēriá), from Ancient Greek πονηρία (ponēría, “knavery, mischief”), with synizesis. By surface analysis, πονηρ(ός) (ponir(ós)) + -ιά (-iá)
a trick (non-obvious, often clever way to accomplish something) · a ploy, (in the plural) trickery
çekim: çoğul kneps · tamlayan kneps
köken: From Middle Low German knep. Cognate of Danish kneb. Compare also recent German Kniff. Related to the verb knipa (“squeeze”). Doublet of knip, knippe, and knippa.
ett knep för att öppna en flaska utan kapsylöppnare
plot, scheme, conspiracy, intrigue, stratagem; ploy, ruse (secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable) · plot, storyline (course of a story) · thread (continued theme or idea)
çekim: çoğul juonet · tamlayan juonen
köken: From Proto-Finnic *jooni (“path”) (compare Estonian joon), from Proto-Finno-Permic *jane (compare Southern Sami joene (“road”), Erzya ян (jan, “path”)), probably borrowed from Proto-Indo-Iranian *yáHnam. Sense diversification from original “path” is particular to Finnic. Compare dialectal juntu (“path”). The narratological sense (“plot”) was first used by Finnish professor, poet and scholar…
(by) craft, cunning, guile (with a positive or negative connotation) · tricks, stratagems
çekim: çoğul ā̆stūs · tamlayan ā̆stūs
eş: dolus, calliditās
köken: Of uncertain origin. Suggestions include: * from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd-*sth₂u- (“a standing by”), from *steh₂-, thus formed to astō (“to stand by”) like the verb praestō to the adverb of the same form, with a by-form praestū. In this case the full nominal declension is secondary; * from Ancient Greek ἄστυ (ástu), from the common characterization of city-dwellers as more intelligent, also seen…
Miao or Hmong, an Asian ethnic group whose homeland is in the mountainous regions around Guizhou, southern China, and northern Vietnam and Laos.
köken: Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 卯 (SV: Mão). Some dictionaries (such as Thiều Chửu's) consider it as Sino-Vietnamese, but the nặng tone in Mẹo is unlikely to be developed from the Middle Chinese rising tone and eo is unlikely to be a Sino-Vietnamese rhyme, compared to the likely tone and rhyme in Mão. See also Tí, Thìn, Ngọ, Mùi.
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).