scarecrow (figure or any object that is used to scare birds away from fields, trees, threshing floors, etc.) · a deformed and ragged person · stick with a scarf on the end, used in octopus fishing
çekim: çoğul espantalhos
eş: estrampalho
köken: From espantar + -alho. Cognate with Galician espantallo.
marionette (puppet, usually made of wood, which is animated by the pulling of strings) · dupe, front man, puppet, stooge, straw man (one who knowingly allows himself or herself to be used for another's profit)
çekim: çoğul marionetki · tamlayan marionetki
eş: kukła, manekin
köken: Etymology tree French marionette Proto-Indo-European *-keh₂der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *-kāˀ Proto-Slavic *-ъka Old Polish -ka Polish -ka Polish marionetka From French marionette + Polish -ka.
From earlier mù nhìn, attested in Chỉ nam ngọc âm giải nghĩa (指南玉音解義) as 戊忍 (MC muwH nyinX) (modern SV: mậu nhẫn). Vũ Đức Nghiệu (2019) relates the prefixal element bù to bồ ~ mồ - also found in bồ nâu (“dioscorea cirrhosa, dyeing yam”), bồ quân (“flacourtia jangomas, Indian coffee plum”), bồ hóng (“soot”), bồ hòn (“western soapberry (Sapindus saponaria) ← Chinese soapberry (Sapindus…