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Wiktionary says 馬鹿 is "probably originally a transcription of Sanskrit मोह (moha, “folly”), used as a slang term among monks".
by KhoomeiK 4y ago
Wiktionary says 馬鹿 is "probably originally a transcription of Sanskrit मोह (moha, “folly”), used as a slang term among monks".
- userbinator 4y agoInteresting that it's a different etymology but ended up with the same structure as this other two-animal insult: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Schweinehund https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Schweinehund
- glandium 4y agoJapanese wikipedia lists 7 different hypothetized origins, none of them having real decisive evidence.