disinformation

English

WOTD – 18 September 2015

Etymology

From dis- +‎ information, calqued from Russian дезинформа́ция (dezinformácija), a word coined by Joseph Stalin (see the Wikipedia article).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdɪsɪnfəˈmeɪʃ(ə)n/
• IPA^(key): /dɪsˌɪnfɚˈmeɪʃən/

• Audio (AU):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

disinformation (usually uncountable, plural disinformations)

1. Intentionally false information disseminated to deliberately confuse or mislead.

Related terms

• dezinformatsiya
• disinform

Translations

intentionally false information

• Arabic: مَعْلُومَات مُضَلِّلَة f pl (maʿlūmāt muḍallila)
• Belarusian: дэзінфармацыя f (dezinfarmacyja)
• Bulgarian: дезинформа́ция f (dezinformácija)
• Catalan: desinformació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 假情報／假情报, 假情报 (jiǎqíngbào), 訛傳／讹传 (zh) (échuán), 讹传 (zh) (échuán), 謊報／谎报 (zh) (huǎngbào), 谎报 (zh) (huǎngbào)

• Czech: dezinformace (cs) f
• Danish: misinformation c
• Dutch: desinformatie (nl) f
• Estonian: desinformatsiooni
• Finnish: disinformaatio (fi), harhatiedotus
• French: désinformation (fr) f
• German: Desinformation (de) f
• Greek: παραπληροφόρηση (el) f (paraplirofórisi)
• Hebrew: דיסאינפורמציה (he) f
• Irish: bréagaisnéis f
• Italian: disinformazione (it) f, controinformazione f
• Japanese: 偽情報 (にせじょうほう, nisejōhō), 誤報 (ごほう, gohō)
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• Lithuanian: dezinformacija
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: desinformasjon m

  Nynorsk: desinformasjon m

• Polish: dezinformacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: desinformação f
• Russian: дезинформа́ция (ru) f (dezinformácija), де́за (ru) f (déza) (colloquial)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дезинформација f

  Roman: dezinformacija (sh) f

• Slovak: dezinformácia f
• Slovene: dezinformácija f
• Spanish: desinformación (es) f
• Swedish: desinformation (sv)
• Turkish: dezenformasyon (tr)
• Ukrainian: дезінформа́ція f (dezinformácija)

See also

• misinformation
• propaganda