false friend

/F AO1 L S F R EH0 N D/

noun

1
A word in a language that bears a deceptive resemblance to a word in another language but in fact has a different meaning.
“A word and its false friend may well be etymologically related: in such cases semantic shifts have made them drift apart.”
syn:faux ami

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