eş: Bauernfang, Bauernfängerei, Betrügerei, Gaunerei, Hintergehung, Lug und Trug
köken: From Middle High German betroc, from Old High German bitrog, from Proto-West Germanic *bidrog. The -u- is from German Trug, itself a back-formation from Middle High German trüge, from Old High German trugī, from the same Indo-European root.
köken: From Middle Persian [script needed] (plyp /frēb/, “deceit, deception”), from Proto-Iranian *fra- (“toward”, from Proto-Indo-European *pro-) + *dab (“to deceive”, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰebʰ- (“to deceive; to harm”)).
aile: فریب خوردن, فریب دادن
مژهٔ سیاهت ار کرد به خون ما اشارت ز فریب او بیندیش و غلط مکن نگارا
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)
diversion (tactic used to draw attention away from the real threat or action) · diversion (act of diverting) · red herring (a falsified or intentionally misleading clue)
Of unclear origin. Pokorny tentatively derives the word from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp-, from *kh₂em- (“bend, curve”); compare Albanian këmbë (“leg, foot”). Mayrhofer finds the above derivation unconvincing; he originally preferred taking the word as a Dravidian borrowing, with original form *kapardu (whence perhaps कपर्द (kaparda)), comparing the term to कूट (kūṭa, “false”) and Tamil கோடு…