clown

Etymology
From earlier,. likely of origin, akin to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, all from, from ; according to Pokorny, this could be related to a group of Germanic derivatives of , such as 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , etc.

Alternatively, directly from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), themselves from the same ultimate source as above.

Unlikely from, although learned awareness of this term may have influenced semantic development.

Noun



 * 1) A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and usually characterized by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig.
 * 2) A person who acts in a silly fashion.
 * He was regarded as the clown of the school, always playing pranks.
 * 1) A stupid or badly-behaved person.
 * 2)  A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor.
 * 3)  One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl; a yokel.
 * 4) * August 25, 1759,, The Idler No. 71
 * He began to descend to familiar questions, endeavouring to accommodate his discourse to the grossness of rustic understandings. The clowns soon found that he did not know wheat from rye, and began to despise him; one of the boys, by pretending to show him a bird's nest, decoyed him into a ditch;
 * 1) A clownfish.
 * 1)  One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl; a yokel.
 * 2) * August 25, 1759,, The Idler No. 71
 * He began to descend to familiar questions, endeavouring to accommodate his discourse to the grossness of rustic understandings. The clowns soon found that he did not know wheat from rye, and began to despise him; one of the boys, by pretending to show him a bird's nest, decoyed him into a ditch;
 * 1) A clownfish.
 * He began to descend to familiar questions, endeavouring to accommodate his discourse to the grossness of rustic understandings. The clowns soon found that he did not know wheat from rye, and began to despise him; one of the boys, by pretending to show him a bird's nest, decoyed him into a ditch;
 * 1) A clownfish.

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:fool, jester, & laughingstock

Translations

 * Afrikaans:, , ,
 * Albanian:, klloun,
 * Arabic: مُهَرِّج
 * Egyptian Arabic: بلياتشو, بهلوان
 * Gulf Arabic: ارقوز
 * Hijazi Arabic: مهرج, أرقوز
 * North Levantine Arabic: مهرج
 * South Levantine Arabic: مهرج
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:, oyunbaz
 * Belarusian: клоўн
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: klaun
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: klaŭno, klaŭnino
 * Faroese: íspegil, klovnur
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, , , ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: კლოუნი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:, ,
 * Ancient: γελωτοποιός
 * Greenlandic: quiasaarisartoq
 * Hebrew:, ליצנית
 * Hindi:, जोकर
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: áilteoir
 * Italian:, pagliaccia
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: клоун
 * Korean:, ,
 * Kyrgyz: клоун
 * Latin: scurra, sanniō, balatrō
 * Latvian: klauns
 * Macedonian: кловн, палја́чо
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Marathi: जोकर
 * Navajo: łą́ʼátʼíinii, haashchʼéídóó
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Nynorsk: klovn
 * Occitan:
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Spucht
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, , bufonă, ,
 * Romansch: clown
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: клаун, кловн
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: klaun
 * Slovene:, klovnesa
 * Spanish:, payasa, ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: payaso
 * Tajik: масхарабоз
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uzbek: kloun,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: clown
 * Yiddish: פּאַיאַץ


 * Afrikaans: ,
 * Arabic: مُهَرِّج
 * Gulf Arabic: ارقوز
 * Asturian:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , , , , , ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: petruška
 * Irish: áilteoir
 * Italian:, buffona
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: кловн, шут, палја́чо
 * Maori: kiri hangareka
 * Norman: bouffon
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, , bufonă
 * Russian:, , , , ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, payasa
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: ширинкор
 * Ukrainian:
 * Yiddish: פּאַיאַץ

Verb

 * 1)  To act in a silly or playful fashion.
 * 2)  To ridicule, make fun of.
 * 1)  To ridicule, make fun of.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  entertainer

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  entertainer

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  performer
 * 2)  person who acts in a comic way
 * 1)  person who acts in a comic way

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  artist

Etymology
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Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  circus performance artist

Etymology
From.

Etymology 1
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) clown