marionette

Etymology
Borrowed from. The word originally meant a small statue of the Virgin Mary, then also a puppet of her used in religious theatrical presentations, finally generalised to any puppet.

Noun

 * 1) A puppet, usually made of wood, which is animated by the pulling of strings.
 * 2)  The buffel duck.
 * 1)  The buffel duck.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: марыяне́тка
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 扯線公仔, 木頭公仔
 * Mandarin: 扯線木偶, 扯線木偶,, 懸絲傀儡
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: marioneto
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Interlingua: marionette
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 糸繰り人形, マリオネット
 * Kazakh: қуыршақ
 * Latin: vavato
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: marionett
 * Nynorsk: marionett
 * Ottoman Turkish: قوقله, ببك
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Aumpelmaun
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: bábka
 * Spanish: marioneta
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: маріоне́тка
 * Volapük:

Verb

 * 1)  To control (somebody) as if they were a puppet; to manipulate.