parody

Etymology
From, from , from +.

Noun

 * 1) A work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony.
 * 2)  A popular maxim, adage, or proverb.
 * 1)  A popular maxim, adage, or proverb.
 * 1)  A popular maxim, adage, or proverb.

Usage notes
Not to be confused with.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: مُحَاكَاة سَاخِرَة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: parodiya
 * Basque: parodia
 * Belarusian: паро́дыя
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 諧仿,
 * Czech: parodie
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: parodio
 * Estonian: paroodia
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: პაროდია
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, हास्यानुकृति, भड़ौआ
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: skopstæling
 * Ido:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: пародия
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz: пародия
 * Latvian: parodija
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: пародија
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: parodi
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: па̀ро̄дија
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: paródia
 * Slovene: parodija
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: gayambalbal
 * Tajik: пародия
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uzbek:
 * Yiddish: פּאַראָדיע

Verb

 * 1)  To make a parody of something.
 * The comedy movie parodied the entire Western genre.

Usage notes
Often confused with, which agitates for social change using humor.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 諧仿
 * Czech: parodovat
 * Danish: parodiere
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: parodii
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian: parodiare
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: