brouhaha

Etymology
Borrowed from, but disputed as to where from before that. Possibly from.

Noun

 * 1) A stir; a fuss or uproar.

Translations

 * Arabic: عَجِيج, ضَجِيج, هَرْج
 * Catalan:, , , , ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Persian: همهمه، غوغا
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,

Etymology
Disputed. Possibly by from, a collocation occurring in Psalm 118:26 and an interjection meaning “welcome” in Modern Hebrew. An alternative theory holds that the origin is.

In regards to the semantic evolution to “noisy meeting”, compare,.