falso amigo

Galician

Noun

falso amigo m (plural falsos amigos)

false friend

Portuguese

Noun

falso amigo m (plural falsos amigos)

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see falso,‎ amigo.
(linguistics) false friend (word in a foreign language bearing a deceptive resemblance to a word in a language)

Related terms

falso cognato

Spanish

Noun

falso amigo m (plural falsos amigos)

false friend

Further reading

“falso amigo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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