harlequin

Etymology
From earlier, from (in 🇨🇬, the name of a popular servant character in  plays), from , , , , , , probably of  origin, connected to the Old English figure of  or possibly to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Related to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A pantomime fool, typically dressed in colorful checkered clothes.
 * 2) A greenish-chartreuse color.
 * 3)  A harlequin duck.
 * 4)  Any of various riodinid butterflies of the genera Taxila and Praetaxila.
 * 1)  A harlequin duck.
 * 2)  Any of various riodinid butterflies of the genera Taxila and Praetaxila.
 * 1)  Any of various riodinid butterflies of the genera Taxila and Praetaxila.

Usage notes

 * Because of its origin in the name of an Italian theatrical character, is often used as a proper noun.

Translations

 * Azerbaijani: arlekin
 * Basque: arlekin
 * Bulgarian: арлекин, арлекино
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: harlekýn
 * Danish: harlekin
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: arlekeno
 * Estonian: arlekiin
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Alemannic German: Harlekin
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Irish: airleacán
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: アルレッキーノ
 * Korean: 아를레키노
 * Latvian: arlekīns
 * Lithuanian: arlekinas
 * Lombard: arlechin,  arlechì
 * Macedonian: арлекин
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: harlekin
 * Nynorsk: harlekin
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: харлѐкӣн, арлѐкӣн
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: harlekin
 * Tibetan: ཨར་ལེ་ཀི་ནོ།
 * Turkish: arleken
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uzbek: arlikin, arlekino
 * Walloon:

Adjective

 * 1) Brightly colored, especially in a pattern like that of a harlequin clown's clothes.
 * 2) Of a greenish-chartreuse color.

Translations

 * Finnish: ; harlekiinikuvioinen
 * Italian:

Verb

 * 1)  To remove or conjure away, as if by a harlequin's trick.
 * 2)  To make sport by playing ludicrous tricks.
 * 1)  To make sport by playing ludicrous tricks.