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.
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)
köken: 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.
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”).
köken: From Proto-Mon-Khmer *koŋ (“to bend; to be bent”) (whence Khmer កោង (kaong, “to bend; to be bent”)). Cognate with Thai ก่ง (gòng), ก้งโค้ง, โก่ง (gòong), โก้งโค้ง, โค้ง (kóong).
to barter, negotiate · to debate · to proceed, act
çekim: geçmiş baratei · ortaç baratado · şimdiki barata
köken: 13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese baratar. Further etymology is uncertain: perhaps ultimately from Celtic. Compare French baratter, Old French barater, English barter, Occitan baratar, Spanish baratar.