counterfeit

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English

Etymology

Anglo-Norman countrefait, from continental Old French contrefait.

Pronunciation

• (US) X-SAMPA: /caUn.t3.fIt/

Adjective

counterfeit (not comparable)

1. False, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine.

   This counterfeit watch looks like the real thing, but it broke a week after I bought it.

2. Inauthentic

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:fake

Translations

intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine

• Bulgarian: фалшив (bg) (falšiv)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: namaak, nep
• Finnish: väärennetty (fi), väärä (fi)
• French: contrefait (fr)
• German: gefälscht (de)
• Hebrew: מזויף (he) (mezuyáf)
• Hindi: खोटा (hi) (khōṭā), जाली (hi) (jālī)
• Hungarian: hamis (hu), hamisított (hu)
• Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: contraffazione (it), falso (it)

• Khmer: ក្លែងក្លាយ (km) (klaeng klaay)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: جعلی (fa) (ja'lī)
• Polish: sfałszowany (pl) m
• Portuguese: falso (pt)
• Russian: поддельный (ru) (podd'él'nyj), фальшивый (ru) (fal'šívyj), контрафактный (ru) (kontrafáktnyj)
• Sanskrit: प्रातिरूपिक (sa) (prātirūpika)
• Spanish: contrahecho (es) falsificado (es)
• Swahili: bandia (sw)
• Swedish: förfalskad (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can

unauthentic

• Bulgarian: подправен (bg) (podpraven), фалшив (bg) (falšiv)
• Dutch: vervalst (nl)
• Finnish: väärennetty (fi), jäljitelty (fi)
• French: contrefait (fr)
• German: falsch (de)
• Italian: contraffazione (it), falso (it)

• Portuguese: falso (pt)
• Russian: поддельный (ru) (podd'él'nyj), фальшивый (ru) (fal'šívyj), контрафактный (ru) (kontrafáktnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: лажан (sh) (lažan) m, неаутентичан (sh) (neautentičan) m
• Spanish: contrahecho (es)
• Swahili: bandia (sw)

Noun

counterfeit (plural counterfeits)

1. A non-genuine article; a fake.
2. One who counterfeits; a counterfeiter.

Translations

fake

• Bulgarian: фалшификация (bg) (falšifikacija) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 贗品 (cmn), 赝品 (cmn) (yànpǐn)

• Dutch: vervalsing (nl)
• Finnish: väärennös (fi), jäljitelmä (fi)
• French: contrefaçon (fr)
• German: Fälschung (de) f
• Hindi: नक़ल (hi) (naqal) f
• Hungarian: hamisítvány (hu)
• Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: contraffazione (it) f, falso (it) m, imitazione (it) f

• Japanese: 偽物 (ja) (にせもの, nisemono), フェイク (ja) (feiku)
• Khmer: របស់ក្លែង (km) (rɔbɑh klaeng)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: falsyfikat (pl) m, podróbka (pl) f
• Portuguese: contrafação f, falsificação f
• Russian: подделка (ru) (poddélka) f, фальшивка (ru) (fal'šívka) f
• Spanish: contrahechura (es) f
• Swahili: bandia (sw)
• Swedish: förfalskning (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can

counterfeiter — see counterfeiter

Verb

counterfeit (third-person singular simple present counterfeits, present participle counterfeiting, simple past and past participle counterfeited)

1. (transitive) To falsely produce what appears to be official or valid; to produce a forged copy of.

   to counterfeit the signature of another, coins, notes, etc.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To produce a faithful copy of.
   • 2008, Michael Gaudio, Engraving the savage: the New World and techniques of civilization‎, page xii:

     The title page of White's original album includes a descriptive title page that identifies the contents as “the pictures of sondry things collected and counterfeited according to the truth,"

3. (transitive, obsolete) To feign; to mimic.

   to counterfeit the voice of another person

   • Goldsmith

     Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee / At all his jokes, for many a joke had he.

4. (transitive, poker, usually "be counterfeited") Of a turn or river card, to invalidate a player's hand by making a better hand on the board.

Translations

To produce something that appears to be official or valid

• Afrikaans: namaak (af), vervals (af)
• Bulgarian: подправям (bg) (podpravjam), фалшифицирам (bg) (falšificiram)
• Dutch: vervalsen (nl), namaken (nl)
• Finnish: väärentää (fi)
• French: contrefaire (fr)
• German: fälschen (de)
• Italian: contraffare (it), falsificare (it)

• Polish: fałszować (pl), podrabiać (pl)
• Portuguese: contrafazer (pt), falsificar (pt)
• Russian: подделывать (ru) (podd'élyvat') impf., подделать (ru) (podd'élat') pf.
• Spanish: falsificar (es), contrahacer (es)
• Swahili: bandia (sw)
• Swedish: förfalska (sv)

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• Romanian: contrafăcut