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English
Etymology
Borrowed from German Schwindler, 1774.
Pronunciation
Noun
swindler (plural swindlers)
- A person who swindles, cheats or defrauds.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:deceiver, Thesaurus:fraudster
Translations
person who swindles, cheats or defrauds
- Azerbaijani: fırıldaqçı (az)
- Catalan: estafador m, estafadora f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 騙子/骗子 (zh) (piànzi), 江湖騙子/江湖骗子 (zh) (jiānghú piànzi)
- Czech: podvodník (cs) m, šejdíř (cs) m, švindlíř m
- Dutch: zwendelaar (nl) m, zwendelaarster (nl) f
- Esperanto: fikomercisto
- Finnish: huijari (fi), petkuttaja (fi)
- French: escroc (fr) m, aigrefin (fr) m, margoulin (fr) m
- Galician: moinante (gl) m, estafador m
- German: Schwindler (de) m, Schwindlerin (de) f, Gauner (de) m, Gaunerin (de) f, Betrüger (de) m, Betrügerin (de) f
- Greek: κομπιναδόρος (el) m (kompinadóros)
- Ancient: φέναξ m (phénax)
- Hungarian: csaló (hu), szélhámos (hu), svindler (hu), (concerning marriage) szédelgő (hu)
- Indonesian: penipu (id), bajingan (id) (pejorative), pecundang (id)
- Italian: ingannatore (it) m, defraudatore m, ciarlatano (it) m, gabbatore m, truffatore (it) m
- Japanese: 詐欺師 (ja) (さぎし, sagishi)
- Kazakh: алаяқ (kk) (alaäq)
- Ladino: dalaveradji, batakchi, kazikchi
- Latin: fraudātor m
- Macedonian: измамник m (izmamnik)
- Maori: kaitāware
- Norman: aigrefîn m
- Plautdietsch: Schwindla n
- Polish: szuler (pl) m, oszust (pl) m
- Portuguese: caloteiro (pt) m, estelionatário (pt) m
- Russian: моше́нник (ru) m (mošénnik), моше́нница (ru) f (mošénnica), жу́лик (ru) m (žúlik), афери́ст (ru) m (aferíst), афери́стка (ru) f (aferístka)
- Spanish: estafador (es) m, chapucero (es) m (Mexico, familiar), defraudador (es) m, engañabobos (es), trapacero m
- Swahili: mlaghai (sw)
- Swedish: svindlare (sv) c
- Tagalog: balasubas
- Turkish: dolandırıcı (tr)
- Welsh: twyllwr m, twyllwraig f
- Yiddish: שווינדלער m (shvindler)
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