béguin

Etymology
Colloquial. The verb came to mean ‘to have a crush on someone’. The word itself came from (lay nuns who typically wore such bonnets).

Noun

 * 1) An infatuation or fancy.

Translations

 * Russian:

Etymology 1
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Noun

 * 1)  Beghard, Beguin religious laymen living in semimonastic communities in imitation of the Beguines

Noun

 * 1) a type of headwear once popular with Beguines, similar to a bonnet

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1)  crush, fancy (a short-lived and unrequited love or infatuation)
 * 2)  crush (person with whom one is infatuated)
 * 1)  crush (person with whom one is infatuated)