From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[2016]
*** Etymology
From [en], [frm], from [en], from [it], a dialectal form of [it]. [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Adjective
[er]
1. Unusual and awkward in a funny, comical manner; outlandish ; clownish .
2. * {{ quote-book
|en |year=1986 |author=w:John le Carré |title=w:A Perfect Spy |section=
|passage= And I will admit now but never then that, more than once, listening
to the Viennese chattering their ZANY German on the pavements, or taking
himself to one of the struggling small theatres that were cropping up in
cellars and bombed houses...}}
1. * [en]
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
5. Ludicrously or incongruously comical.
**** Synonyms
- [en]
**** Derived terms
- [en]
- [en]
**** Translations
[ludicrously or incongruously comical]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [funny] [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [crazy, goofy] [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [weird] [hu] , [hu]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] [crazy] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] [funny] , [ru] [buffoonish] , [ru] [idiotic] , [ru] [clownish] , [ru] [comical]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
[trans-bottom] <!-- [bizarre, clownish] [trans-bottom] -->
**** See also
{{col3|en |ebullient }}
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A fool or clown , especially one whose business on the stage is to imitate foolishly the actions of the principal clown.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=a. 1631 | author=w:John Donne | title=Epistle to Mr. I. W.
|passage=Then write that I may follow, and so be / Thy echo, thy debtor, thy
foil, thy ZANY.}}
1. * [en]
2. * [year=1934]
3. * [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To mimic foolishly.
*** References
- [author= 吴语: J. Dover Wilson , comp.] .
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]