marionette

See also: Marionette

English edit

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

Etymology edit

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.

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

marionette (plural marionettes)

A puppet, usually made of wood, which is animated by the pulling of strings.
- 1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], →OCLC:
  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.^[1]

Derived terms edit

Translations edit

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／扯线木偶, 扯線木偶／扯线木偶 (chěxiàn mù'ǒu), 提線木偶／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
Ottoman Turkish: قوقله (kukla), ببك (bebek)
Persian: عَرُوسَکِ خَیْمَه شَب بازِی (fa)
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 (th) (hùn-chə̂ət)
Turkish: kukla (tr) c
Ukrainian: маріоне́тка f (marionétka)
Volapük: marionät (vo)

Verb edit

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