cabaz

From Old Galician-Portuguese cabaz. Compare Catalan cabàs, Old Occitan cabas.

cabaz m (plural cabazes)

1. basket (container)

   Synonyms: cesta, cesto

• cabazáda

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish حقه باز (hokkabaz), from Persian حقه باز (“player at cups-and-balls; juggler; pick-pocket; plotter, impostor”), from Arabic حُقَّة (ḥuqqa, “cup of a juggler”).

cabaz m (plural cabazi)

1. (Moldavia (region), obsolete) a joker (man)
   • 1883, Vasile Alecsandri, Cinel-Cinel:

     Ian să vedem ce-mi mai scrie cabazul cel de Tachi?

     Let's see what that joker of Tachi is writing to me.

cabaz n (plural cabazuri)

1. (Moldavia (region), obsolete) a joke, a farce
   • 1882, Mihai Eminescu, Timpul‎:

     Timur avea un hoge caraghioz pe care îl chema Nastratin, identic cu acela ale cărui taclale și cabazuri le-a cules și le-a pus în versuri răposatul Anton Pann.

     Timur had a funny hodja named Nasreddin, identical to the one whose conversations and jokes were collected and put into verses by the late Anton Pann.