feign

Etymology
From, , borrowed from , from. Compare 🇨🇬. Also compare and.

Verb

 * 1) To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate.
 * 2) To imagine; to invent; to pretend to do something.
 * 3) * '1511, King James Translators, Nehemiah 5:8:
 * Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
 * 1) To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent; to feint.
 * 2)  To hide or conceal.
 * 1) * '1511, King James Translators, Nehemiah 5:8:
 * Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
 * 1) To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent; to feint.
 * 2)  To hide or conceal.
 * 1)  To hide or conceal.
 * 1)  To hide or conceal.

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:deceive
 * See Thesaurus:deceive

Translations

 * Arabic: تَظَاهَر, اِخْتَلَق, تَصَنَّع
 * Bulgarian:, преструвам се
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:, foregive, simulere
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: ŝajnigi
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Friulian: fenzi, fengi
 * Galician: finxir
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, , , úgy tesz, mintha…, ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Lombard: fing
 * Lushootseed: səxʷʔiw̓adəb
 * Maori: whakakikoika
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Occitan:
 * Polish:, , pozorować, , zgrywać się,  , odgrywać rolę,  , robić się na kogoś,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: leig air
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: прикида́тися, підро́блювати


 * Arabic: يَزْعُم, تَخَيَّل
 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Italian: immaginarsi, inventarsi
 * Maori: whakakikoika, whakakikokiko
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: leig air
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: вига́дувати, ви́гадати, наду́мати


 * Arabic: وَرَّى
 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Maori: whakakikoika
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: прихо́вувати, прихова́ти,