مسخره

Persian

noun

Definitions

a ridiculous person, clown, buffoon

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَسْخَرَة (fool, anything ridiculous, buffoon, pleasantry).

Origin

Arabic

مَسْخَرَة

Gloss

fool, anything ridiculous, buffoon, pleasantry

Concept

Semantic Field

Social and political relations

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Emoji

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

maschera Italian
مَسْخَرَة Arabic
масқара Kazakh
مصخرة Gulf Arabic