Where does “بلوف” come from?

بلوف (Ottoman Turkish) comes from French bluff, from English bluff, from Dutch bluffen, from Middle Dutch bluffen — to make something swell; to bluff.

بلوف (Ottoman Turkish): bluff

Definitions

  1. bluff

Ancestry of “بلوف”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchbluffbluff
2EnglishbluffAn act of bluffing; a false expression of the...
3Dutchbluffento bluff
4Middle Dutchbluffento make something swell; to bluff
Every word from Middle Dutch bluffen →Every word from Dutch bluffen →Every word from English bluff →
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