rubbish, nonsense; bunkum, bunk
çekim: tamlayan Blödsinnes
eş: Quatsch, Quatsch mit Soße, Unsinn
köken: Backformed from blödsinnig (“stupid”) (18th century).
🔊 Was für ein Blödsinn ist das?
absurdity; meaninglessness · a thing that is absurd
çekim: çoğul absurdités
eş: absurde, incohérence, non-sens
köken: Learned borrowing from Latin absurditās. By surface analysis, absurde + -ité.
🔊 l'absurdité de la vie
🔊 des absurdités
malarkey, malarky, nonsense, rubbish · silliness, absurdity
çekim: çoğul majaderías
eş: tontería, bobada, estupidez, sandez
köken: From majadero + -ía.
hot air (empty or exaggerated talk) · thin air
köken: Literally, “fried air”.
nonsense, rubbish · trifle
çekim: tamlayan чепухи́
eş: бессмыслица, ерунда, нонсенс, пурга, мура, чушь
köken: According to Vasmer, the exact etymology of this word is unknown. But it is said to be derived from a variant pronunciation of щепа́ (ščepá, “wood chips”), "чепа". Compare typologically вздор (vzdor) (possibly akin to драть (dratʹ)), дребеде́нь (drebedénʹ).
aile: чепуши́ла, чепуши́ло, чепуши́нник, чепуши́ть, чепуха́ на по́стном ма́сле
to drink spirits · to have a drink, to hobnob
çekim: geçmiş borrelden · ortaç geborreld · şimdiki borrelt · ulaç borrelend
köken: From borrel + -en.
aile: naborrelen
nonsense · foolishness · junk food
çekim: çoğul besteiras
eş: asneira, tolice, manota, bobagem, brebote, porcaria
köken: From besta (“stupid, idiot”) + -eira.
to foam, to froth, to fizz
çekim: geçmiş άφρισα · ortaç αφρισμένος
vocative/accusative/nominative plural of brednia
froth (unimportant events)
çekim: çoğul hömpät · tamlayan hömpän
köken: Sound-symbolic, akin to hömpsy
aile: hömpöttää, hömppäsivu
double Dutch, gibberish, jargon, nonsense (nonsensical talk, incomprehensible language)
çekim: çoğul halandzsák
köken: Coined by Frigyes Karinthy; first published in 1912.
aile: halandzsázik
İbranice 🔊 הבל (eril) /ˈhevel/ steam, vapor · breath · foolishness, nonsense, absurdity
çekim: çoğul הֲבָלִים
köken: Compare Arabic هبل.
an absurdity, a silly thing to say, a piece of nonsense
çekim: çoğul estirabots
köken: By metathesis from earlier (now dialectal) estaribot, from Spanish estribote, a satirical verse form.
🔊 Aquells estirabots no es poden acceptar.
Galce 🔊 ewyn (eril) /ˈɛu̯.ɨ̞n/ foam, spume, froth · suds, lather, scum
çekim: çoğul ewynnau
köken: From Proto-Brythonic *öwɨn (compare Cornish ewon, Breton eon), from Proto-Celtic *ɸowinos (compare Old Irish úan (“foam”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pow-ino-.
aile: ewynnu, bwrw ewyn, malu ewyn, maeddu ewyn