marionette

See also: Marionette

EnglishEdit

A marionette being manipulated by a puppetmaster during a traditional yoke thé performance in Bagan, Myanmar

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from French marionnette. 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.

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /ˌmæɹi.əˈnɛt/
Audio (UK) (file)
Rhymes: -ɛt

NounEdit

marionette (plural marionettes)

A puppet, usually made of wood, which is animated by the pulling of strings.
- 1885 — Gilbert and Sullivan, The Mikado
  If you think we are worked by strings,
  
  Like a Japanese marionette,
  
  You don't understand these things:
  
  It is simply Court etiquette.
(obsolete) The buffel duck.

Derived termsEdit

marionettist

TranslationsEdit

string puppet

Armenian: խամաճիկ (hy) (xamačik)
Belarusian: марыяне́тка f (maryjanjétka)
Bulgarian: марионетка (bg) f (marionetka)
Catalan: marioneta (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 扯線公仔, 扯线公仔 (ce² sin³ gung¹ zai²), 木頭公仔, 木头公仔 (muk⁶ tau⁴ gung¹ zai²)

Mandarin: 扯線木偶, 扯線木偶 (chěxiàn mù'ǒu), 提線木偶 (zh), 提线木偶 (zh) (tíxiàn mù'ǒu), 懸絲傀儡, 悬丝傀儡 (xuánsī kuǐlěi)
Czech: marioneta (cs) f
Dutch: marionet (nl) f
Esperanto: marioneto
Finnish: marionetti (fi)
French: marionnette (fr) f
German: Marionette (de) f
Hungarian: marionett (hu)
Ido: marioneto (io)
Interlingua: marionette
Italian: marionetta (it) f
Japanese: 糸繰り人形 (いとくりにんぎょう, itokuri ningyō), マリオネット (marionetto)

Kazakh: қуыршақ (quyrşaq)
Latin: vavato m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: marionett m

Nynorsk: marionett m
Plautdietsch: Aumpelmaun m
Polish: marionetka (pl) f
Portuguese: marionete (pt) f
Romanian: marionetă (ro) f
Russian: марионе́тка (ru) f (marionétka)
Slovak: bábka f
Spanish: marioneta f
Swedish: marionett (sv) c
Thai: หุ่นเชิด (hùn-chə̂ət)
Turkish: kukla (tr) c
Ukrainian: маріоне́тка f (marionétka)
Volapük: marionät (vo)

VerbEdit

marionette (third-person singular simple present marionettes, present participle marionetting, simple past and past participle marionetted)