charlatan

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• General-American: /ˈʃɑɹlətən/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈʃɑːlətən/
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From Middle French charlatan, from Old Italian ciarlatano (“quack”), a blend of ciarlatore (“chatterer”) + cerretano (“hawker, quack”, literally “native of Cerreto”) (Cerreto di Spoleto being a village in Umbria, known for its quacks).

51 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: دَجَّال (dajjāl) — malicious trickster
• Armenian: ընդվայրաբան (əndvayraban) — malicious trickster
• Armenian: շառլատան (šaṙlatan) — malicious trickster
• Bulgarian: шарлата́нин (šarlatánin) — malicious trickster
• Catalan: xarlatà — malicious trickster
• Chinese Mandarin: 騙子 /骗子 (piànzǐ) — malicious trickster
• Chinese Mandarin: 庸醫 /庸医 (yōngyī) — malicious trickster
• Czech: šarlatán — malicious trickster
• Danish: charlatan — malicious trickster
• Danish: fupmager — malicious trickster
• Danish: snydepels — malicious trickster
• Danish: fidusmager — malicious trickster
• Danish: svindler — malicious trickster
• Danish: platugle — malicious trickster
• Dutch: charlatan — malicious trickster
• Esperanto: ĉarlatano — malicious trickster
• Finnish: huijari — malicious trickster
• Finnish: puoskari — malicious trickster
• French: charlatan — malicious trickster
• Galician: charlatán — malicious trickster
• German: Scharlatan — malicious trickster
• Greek: αγύρτης (agýrtis) — malicious trickster
• Ancient Greek: ὀχλαγωγός (okhlagōgós) — malicious trickster
• Hebrew: שרלטן (šarletan) — malicious trickster
• Hindi: कपटी (kapṭī) — malicious trickster
• Hindi: ढोंगी (ḍhoṅgī) — malicious trickster
• Hungarian: kuruzsló — malicious trickster
• Hungarian: sarlatán — malicious trickster
• Hungarian: vajákos — malicious trickster
• Indonesian: penipu — malicious trickster
• Indonesian: dukun — malicious trickster
• Italian: ciarlatano — malicious trickster
• Japanese: 薮医者 (yabuisha) — malicious trickster
• Korean: 사기꾼 (sagikkun) — malicious trickster
• Korean: 허풍선이 (heopungseoni) — malicious trickster
• Korean: 돌팔이 (dolpari) — malicious trickster
• Latin: magus — malicious trickster
• Māori: tohunga kēhua — malicious trickster
• Norwegian Bokmål: sjarlatan — malicious trickster
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sjarlatan — malicious trickster
• Occitan: charlatan — malicious trickster
• Persian: شارلاتان (šârlâtân) — malicious trickster
• Polish: szarlatan — malicious trickster
• Polish: szarlatanka — malicious trickster
• Portuguese: charlatão — malicious trickster
• Russian: шарлата́н (šarlatán) — malicious trickster
• Russian: шарлата́нка (šarlatánka) — malicious trickster
• Spanish: charlatán — malicious trickster
• Turkish: şarlatan — malicious trickster
• Ukrainian: дури́світ (durýsvit) — malicious trickster
• Ukrainian: пройди́світ (projdýsvit) — malicious trickster