"false friend" meaning in English

See false friend in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˌfɒls ˈfɹɛnd/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌfɔːls ˈfɹɛnd/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌfɔls ˈfɹɛnd/ [General-American], /ˌfɑls ˈfɹɛnd/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-false friend.ogg [US], en-au-false friend.ogg [Australia] Forms: false friends [plural]
Etymology: Calque of French faux-ami, from the longer phrase faux amis du traducteur (“false friends of a translator”), first used by Maxime Kœssler and Jules Derocquigny in 1928 in their book Les Faux Amis ou les trahisons du vocabulaire anglais (False Friends, or the Pitfalls of the English Vocabulary). Etymology templates: {{calque|en|fr|faux-ami}} Calque of French faux-ami, {{m|fr||faux amis du traducteur|t=false friends of a translator}} faux amis du traducteur (“false friends of a translator”), {{lang|fr|Les Faux Amis ou les trahisons du vocabulaire anglais}} Les Faux Amis ou les trahisons du vocabulaire anglais Head templates: {{en-noun}} false friend (plural false friends)
  1. (linguistics, translation studies, lexicography) A word in a language that bears a deceptive resemblance to a word in another language but in fact has a different meaning. Categories (topical): Lexicography, Linguistics, Translation studies Synonyms: faux ami Translations (type of word): شِبْه نَظِير (šibh naẓīr) [masculine] (Arabic), fals amic [masculine] (Catalan), 偽友 (Chinese Mandarin), 伪友 (wěiyǒu) (Chinese Mandarin), 假友 (jiǎyǒu) (Chinese Mandarin), 假等義 (Chinese Mandarin), 假等义 (jiǎděngyì) (Chinese Mandarin), 假朋友 (jiǎpéngyǒu) (Chinese Mandarin), 同形异义词 (tóxíngyìyìcí) (Chinese Mandarin), falsk ven (Danish), valse vriend [masculine] (Dutch), falsa amiko (Esperanto), petollinen ystävä (Finnish), väärä ystävä (Finnish), sekaannussana (Finnish), faux-ami [masculine] (French), falso amigo [masculine] (Galician), falscher Freund [masculine] (German), Übersetzungsfalle [feminine] (German), ψευδόφιλος (psevdófilos) [feminine] (Greek), झूठा दोस्त (jhūṭhā dost) (Hindi), झूठे दोस्त (jhūṭhe dost) [plural] (Hindi), hamis barát (Hungarian), álbarát (Hungarian), falsvinir [masculine, plural] (Icelandic), svikatengsl [neuter, plural] (Icelandic), teman palsu (Indonesian), false amico (Interlingua), cara bréige [masculine] (Irish), falso amico [masculine] (Italian), 偽りの友 (itsuwari no tomo) (alt: いつわりのとも) (Japanese), 거짓 친구 (geojit chin'gu) (Korean), falsus amicus [masculine] (Latin), viltusdraugs [masculine] (Latvian), falsk venn [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), falsk ven [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), falsk venn [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), fałszywy przyjaciel [masculine, person] (Polish), falso amigo [masculine] (Portuguese), heterossemântico [masculine] (Portuguese), prieten fals [masculine] (Romanian), ло́жный друг (lóžnyj drug) [masculine] (Russian), lažni prijatelj [masculine] (Slovene), falso amigo [masculine] (Spanish), falsk vän [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-false_friend-en-noun-bZfVRpBl Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 88 12 Topics: human-sciences, lexicography, linguistics, sciences, translation-studies Disambiguation of 'type of word': 100 0
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see false, friend. Hyponyms: partial false friend Related terms: lists of false friends in various languages, cognate, false cognate, misnomer and phantonym (english: both with intralanguage relevance)
    Sense id: en-false_friend-en-noun-G-Wfi4rS

Inflected forms

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      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "",
        "3": "faux amis du traducteur",
        "t": "false friends of a translator"
      },
      "expansion": "faux amis du traducteur (“false friends of a translator”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "Les Faux Amis ou les trahisons du vocabulaire anglais"
      },
      "expansion": "Les Faux Amis ou les trahisons du vocabulaire anglais",
      "name": "lang"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Calque of French faux-ami, from the longer phrase faux amis du traducteur (“false friends of a translator”), first used by Maxime Kœssler and Jules Derocquigny in 1928 in their book Les Faux Amis ou les trahisons du vocabulaire anglais (False Friends, or the Pitfalls of the English Vocabulary).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "false friends",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "false friend (plural false friends)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyponyms": [
    {
      "word": "partial false friend"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "lists of false friends in various languages"
    },
    {
      "word": "cognate"
    },
    {
      "word": "false cognate"
    },
    {
      "english": "both with intralanguage relevance",
      "word": "misnomer and phantonym"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "en:Lexicography",
        "en:Linguistics",
        "en:Translation studies"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "A word and its false friend may well be etymologically related: in such cases semantic shifts have made them drift apart.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A word in a language that bears a deceptive resemblance to a word in another language but in fact has a different meaning."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "linguistics",
          "linguistics"
        ],
        [
          "translation studies",
          "translation studies"
        ],
        [
          "lexicography",
          "lexicography"
        ],
        [
          "word",
          "word"
        ],
        [
          "deceptive",
          "deceptive"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(linguistics, translation studies, lexicography) A word in a language that bears a deceptive resemblance to a word in another language but in fact has a different meaning."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "faux ami"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "lexicography",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences",
        "translation-studies"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see false, friend."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "false",
          "false#English"
        ],
        [
          "friend",
          "friend#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌfɒls ˈfɹɛnd/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌfɔːls ˈfɹɛnd/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌfɔls ˈfɹɛnd/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌfɑls ˈfɹɛnd/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-false friend.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1c/En-us-false_friend.ogg/En-us-false_friend.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/En-us-false_friend.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-false friend.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/74/En-au-false_friend.ogg/En-au-false_friend.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/En-au-false_friend.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "šibh naẓīr",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "شِبْه نَظِير"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fals amic"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "word": "偽友"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "wěiyǒu",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "word": "伪友"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jiǎyǒu",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "word": "假友"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "word": "假等義"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jiǎděngyì",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "word": "假等义"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jiǎpéngyǒu",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "word": "假朋友"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "tóxíngyìyìcí",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "word": "同形异义词"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "word": "falsk ven"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "valse vriend"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "word": "falsa amiko"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "word": "petollinen ystävä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "word": "väärä ystävä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "word": "sekaannussana"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "faux-ami"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "falso amigo"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "falscher Freund"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Übersetzungsfalle"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "psevdófilos",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ψευδόφιλος"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "jhūṭhā dost",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "word": "झूठा दोस्त"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "jhūṭhe dost",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "झूठे दोस्त"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "word": "hamis barát"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "word": "álbarát"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "falsvinir"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "svikatengsl"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "word": "teman palsu"
    },
    {
      "code": "ia",
      "lang": "Interlingua",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "word": "false amico"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cara bréige"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "falso amico"
    },
    {
      "alt": "いつわりのとも",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "itsuwari no tomo",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "word": "偽りの友"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "geojit chin'gu",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "word": "거짓 친구"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "falsus amicus"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "viltusdraugs"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "falsk venn"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "falsk ven"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "falsk venn"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "person"
      ],
      "word": "fałszywy przyjaciel"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "falso amigo"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "heterossemântico"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "prieten fals"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "lóžnyj drug",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ло́жный друг"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lažni prijatelj"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "falso amigo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "type of word",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "falsk vän"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "false friend"
  ],
  "word": "false friend"
}

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