marionette

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• /ˌmæɹi.əˈnɛt/
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Borrowed from French marionnette. The word had originally meant a small statue of the Virgin Mary, then also a puppet of her used in religious theatrical presentations, finally generalised to any puppet.

44 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: marionet — string puppet
• Armenian: խամաճիկ (xamačik) — string puppet
• Azerbaijani: marionet — string puppet
• Belarusian: марыяне́тка (maryjanjétka) — string puppet
• Bulgarian: марионетка (marionetka) — string puppet
• Catalan: marioneta — string puppet
• Chinese Cantonese: 扯線公仔 /扯线公仔 (ce2 sin3 gung1 zai2) — string puppet
• Chinese Cantonese: 木頭公仔 /木头公仔 (muk6 tau4 gung1 zai2) — string puppet
• Chinese Mandarin: 扯線木偶 /扯线木偶 — string puppet
• Chinese Mandarin: 扯線木偶 /扯线木偶 (chěxiàn mù'ǒu) — string puppet
• Chinese Mandarin: 提線木偶 /提线木偶 (tíxiàn mù'ǒu) — string puppet
• Chinese Mandarin: 懸絲傀儡 /悬丝傀儡 (xuánsī kuǐlěi) — string puppet
• Czech: marioneta — string puppet
• Dutch: marionet — string puppet
• Esperanto: marioneto — string puppet
• Finnish: marionetti — string puppet
• French: marionnette — string puppet
• Georgian: მარიონეტი (marioneṭi) — string puppet
• German: Marionette — string puppet
• Hungarian: marionett — string puppet
• Ido: marioneto — string puppet
• Interlingua: marionette — string puppet
• Italian: marionetta — string puppet
• Japanese: 糸繰り人形 (itokuri ningyō) — string puppet
• Japanese: マリオネット (marionetto) — string puppet
• Kazakh: қуыршақ (quyrşaq) — string puppet
• Latin: vavato — string puppet
• Norwegian Bokmål: marionett — string puppet
• Norwegian Nynorsk: marionett — string puppet
• Persian: عَرُوسَکِ خَیْمَه شَب بازِی — string puppet
• Plautdietsch: Aumpelmaun — string puppet
• Polish: marionetka — string puppet
• Portuguese: marionete — string puppet
• Romanian: marionetă — string puppet
• Russian: марионе́тка (marionétka) — string puppet
• Slovak: bábka — string puppet
• Spanish: marioneta — string puppet
• Swedish: marionett — string puppet
• Thai: หุ่นเชิด (hùn-chə̂ət) — string puppet
• Turkish: kukla — string puppet
• Ottoman Turkish: قوقله (kukla) — string puppet
• Ottoman Turkish: ببك (bebek) — string puppet
• Ukrainian: маріоне́тка (marionétka) — string puppet
• Volapük: marionät — string puppet