false friend

Etymology
, from the longer phrase, 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).

Noun

 * 1)  A word in a language that bears a deceptive resemblance to a word in another language but in fact has a different meaning.

Translations

 * Arabic: شِبْه نَظِير
 * Catalan: fals amic
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 偽友, 假友, 假等義, 假朋友, 同形异义词
 * Danish: falsk ven
 * Dutch: valse vriend
 * Esperanto: falsa amiko
 * Finnish:, väärä ystävä,
 * French:
 * Galician: falso amigo
 * German:, Übersetzungsfalle
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: झूठा दोस्त, झूठे दोस्त
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: falsvinir, svikatengsl
 * Indonesian: teman palsu
 * Interlingua: false amico
 * Irish: cara bréige
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 偽りの友
 * Korean: 거짓 친구
 * Latin: falsus amicus
 * Latvian: viltusdraugs
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: falsk ven, falsk venn
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: prieten fals
 * Russian:
 * Slovene: lažni prijatelj
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: