мошенник

By surface analysis, мошна́ (mošná, “money bag”) +‎ -ник (-nik), originally "cutpurse".

Compare typologically German Beutelschneider (< Beutel), Czech taškář (< taška).

For the original sense also see карма́нник (karmánnik) (< карма́н (karmán)), English pickpocket, Czech kapsář (< kapsa), Latin crumēniseca (< crumēna + secō + -a).

• IPA^(key): [mɐˈʂɛnʲːɪk]

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моше́нник • (mošénnik) m anim (genitive моше́нника, nominative plural моше́нники, genitive plural моше́нников, feminine моше́нница)

1. swindler, cheat, cheater, fraud

• моше́нничать impf (mošénničatʹ)
• моше́ннический (mošénničeskij)
• моше́нничество n (mošénničestvo)

• моше́нство n (mošénstvo)
• мошна́ f (mošná)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “мошенник”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “мошенник”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 546
• Shansky, N. M., Zhuravlyov, A. F., editors (2007), “мошенник”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), number 10 (М), Moscow: Moscow University Press, →ISBN, page 340
• Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “мошенник”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
• Krylov, G. A. (2004) “мошенник”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Victory, →ISBN
• Semjonov, A. V. (2003) “мошенник”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (Русский язык от А до Я) (in Russian), Moscow: Junves, →ISBN

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “мошенник”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.
  • See: Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “мошна”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.