disinformation

Etymology
Composed of, a calque of , a word coined by Joseph Stalin c. 1923 (see the Wikipedia article). Attested in this sense in English from 1939. A morphologically-identical "" occurred earlier as a simple synonym of. , an unadapted borrowing from Russian.

Noun

 * 1) False information intentionally disseminated to deliberately confuse or mislead; intentional misinformation.
 * 2) Fabricated or deliberately manipulated content.  Intentionally created conspiracy theories or rumors.

Verb

 * 1)  To use disinformation.

Translations

 * Albanian: dezinformacion
 * Arabic: مَعْلُومَات مُضَلِّلَة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: dezinformasiya
 * Belarusian: дэзінфарма́цыя, дэзынфарма́цыя
 * Bulgarian: дезинформа́ция
 * Catalan: desinformació
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 假情報, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: misinformation
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: desinformatsioon
 * Finnish:, harhatiedotus
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: დეზინფორმაცია
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: दुस्सूचना
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: bréagaisnéis, bréageolas
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: 偽情報,
 * Kazakh: дезинформация
 * Khmer: ព័ត៌មានមិនពិត
 * Korean: 역정보(逆情報),
 * Kyrgyz: дезинформация
 * Latvian: dezinformācija
 * Lithuanian: dezinformacija
 * Macedonian: дезинформација
 * Malay: maklumat palsu
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: desinformasjon
 * Nynorsk: desinformasjon
 * Persian: دروغ‌رسانی, دروغ‌پراکنی
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: dezinformație,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: дезинформа́ција
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: dezinformácia
 * Slovene: dezinformácija
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: маълумоти дурӯғ
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: dezinformasiýa
 * Ukrainian: дезінформа́ція, дезінформува́ння
 * Uzbek: dezinformatsiya
 * Vietnamese: