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.
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
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.
köken: From Proto-Finnic *ansa (compare Estonian aas), borrowed from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ansā (compare Old Prussian ansis (“hook, latch”), Latvian osa), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂emseh₂ (compare Latin ānsa (“handle”)).
A cunning device, trickery, artifice, sophistry, chicanery. · A pretence, evasion, subterfuge. · A misrepresentation, false statement, fallacy, cavil.
çekim: çoğul calumniae · tamlayan calumniae
köken: From Proto-Italic *kalwomnjā, from unattested *kalwomnos (“deceiving, accusing”), which is equal to a (hypothetical) mediopassive participle of calvor.
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).