charlatan

See also charlatán

English

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Etymology

From Middle French charlatan, from Italian ciarlatano (“quack”), a blend of ciarlatore (“a chatterer”) and cerretano (“a hawker, quack”), literally, a native of Cerreto, a village in Umbria, known for its quacks.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˈʃɑɹlətən/

Noun

charlatan (plural charlatans)

1. A malicious trickster; a fake person, especially one who deceives for personal profit.

Synonyms

• swindler
• mountebank
• fraudster
• con-artist
• con-man
• imposter, impostor
• fraud
• phony
• fake
• See also Wikisaurus:deceiver

Related terms

• charlatanism
• charlatanry

Translations

malicious trickster

• Armenian: ընդվայրաբան (hy) (ëndvayraban), շառլատան (hy) (šaṙlatan)
• Bulgarian: шарлатанин (bg) (šarlatánin) m
• Catalan: xarlatà (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 騙子 (cmn), 骗子 (cmn) (piànzi), (quack) 庸醫 (cmn), 庸医 (cmn) (yōngyī)

• Czech: šarlatán (cs) m
• Dutch: charlatan (nl) m
• Finnish: huijari (fi), puoskari (fi)
• French: charlatan (fr) m
• Galician: charlatán (gl) m
• German: Scharlatan (de) m
• Greek: αγύρτης (el) (agýrtis) m

• Hebrew: שרלטן (he) (šarletan) m
• Hungarian: sarlatán (hu)
• Indonesian: penipu (id)
• Italian: ciarlatano (it) m
• Japanese: ぺてん師 (ja) (peten-shi)
• Occitan: charlatan (oc) m
• Polish: szarlatan (pl) m
• Portuguese: charlatão (pt) m
• Russian: шарлатан (ru) (šarlatán) m, шарлатанка (ru) (šarlatánka) f
• Spanish: charlatán (es) m
• Turkish: şarlatan (tr)
• Ukrainian: дурисвіт (uk) (durýsvit) m, пройдисвіт (uk) (projdýsvit) m

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French

Etymology

From Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʃaʁ.la.tɑ̃/

• charlatan

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Noun

charlatan m (plural charlatans; feminine charlatane, plural charlatanes)

1. charlatan