How do you say “to swindle” in Provençal?
In Provençal you say engana, engarça, engusa, escoufia, escrouca, filouna. All forms are given in Mistralian spelling, as attested in our sources.
| Provençal equivalents | engana, engarça, engusa, escoufia, escrouca, filouna, fripouneja, greuja, rousti |
Details of the Provençal equivalents
engana
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to abuse, to deceive, to trick; to catch; to swindle; to dupe; to suborn; to cheat |
engarça
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to swindle |
engusa
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to deceive; to swindle |
escoufia
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to steal, to strip, to fleece, to swindle |
escrouca
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to swindle |
filouna
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to swindle |
fripouneja
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to swindle |
greuja
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to wrong; to swindle |
| Variants | gréuja |
rousti
| Grammatical category | Verb |
| English translation | to swipe (to steal), to swindle, to swindle; roasted; to roast |