True false friends 2

[Dormouse559]

malmener = mistreat
malmenare = to hit sb violently causing injury

Menare also means "to lead" in archaic and literary Italian but that meaning is not used anymore.
Menare means to hit in Central and Southern dialects of Italy, but interestingly menare is not considered Standard Italian, but malmenare yes.

That FB post I linked reads a lot differently with this false friend pair in mind XD

[Dormouse559]

spray - spray can
bombe - spray can

Basically, everything is a spray can. Also, there's bombe de graisse, which reads to my Anglophone brain as "grease bomb", but actually means "oil spray can".

[Rí.na.dTeangacha]

吠える - /hoeru/ - to bark
roer - /hoer/ - to gnaw

Both being things you might expect of a dog makes it especially confusing in context.

[vijayjohn]

This one has been coming up fairly often in the South Asian Languages Discord server:

రండి [ˈrəɳɖi] - please come!
رنڈی / रंडी [ˈɾəɳɖi] - whore

This is a false friend between Northern and Southern Malayalam: For us in southern Kerala, ഉപ്പേരി [uˈpeːɾi] means 'plantain chips'. In northern Kerala, this is apparently called by the name വറുത്തക്കായ് [ʋərʊt̪aˈkaːj], literally 'fried fruit', and by similar names.

In northern Kerala, ഉപ്പേരി means 'stir-fried plantains'. In southern Kerala, we call this ഏത്തയ്ക്ക മെഴുക്കുപുരട്ടി [ˈeːt̪ɛkʲa mɛɻˈkɯʋɛɾɨʈi] 'plantains seasoned with oil'.

[Rí.na.dTeangacha]

コンセント - /konsento/ - wall socket, electrical outlet
consent

[linguoboy]

siringa syringe
siringa anal fistula

[Dormouse559]

marathon de la vitesse - speeding crackdown

This literally translates in English as "speed marathon", which doesn't mean much, but I at first interpreted it as referring to some sort of fast footrace.

La police organise un nouveau marathon de la vitesse mercredi

Police organize another speeding crackdown for Wednesday

[Rí.na.dTeangacha]

прошлая - last, previous
próxima - next, following

The resemblence isn't extremely close, but close enough that it consistently makes me call the Portuguese word to mind which keeps screwing up my Duolingo answers...

[Rí.na.dTeangacha]

тарелки - plates
talheres - cutlery

Again, not as similar as they could be, but their meanings are related to objects frequently used in similar circumstances.

[Dormouse559]

vaccine = cowpox
vaccine = vaccin

[Aurora-Evie]

I'm just going to post one of my favourite false friends:

embarrassed - embarrassed
embaraçado - embarrassed
embarazado - pregnant

[linguoboy]

Just got tripped up by this one:

Teich pond
טײַך river

[Rí.na.dTeangacha]

футболный мяч - a football, a soccer ball
football match

команда - a team
commander

[linguoboy]

kaymak clotted cream
kajmak caramel cream (i.e. dulce de leche)

[Rí.na.dTeangacha]

palitó - suit
пальто - overcoat

[Linguaphile]

palitó - suit
пальто - overcoat

Oh my, such a rabbit hole this led me down...! All because your post made me think of palitu and I just had to look into it....
paletó (generally old-fashioned) suit jacket
palitu overcoat, greatcoat
päľtu overcoat, greatcoat
palʹto jacket, coat
Paletot overcoat, greatcoat
paletot various types of loose or fitted overcoats and jackets
paletot jacket
paletoque cape-like garment from the Middle Ages
paltock short tunic worn beneath armor
pall heavy cloth, shroud, or cloak
pallium cloak
palla a cloth covering fastened with brooches

It seems they ultimately come from palla, which led to paltock, which was then borrowed into French as paletot, which English then re-borrowed as paletot while other languages also borrowed it from French in various forms; it seems it's completely unknown whether palitu originated from Paletot or пальто as it could have been either one, and paľto and päľtu seem to be more definitively from Russian (as is, for example, пальто). And according to Wiktionary, in parts of Brazil it's /ˌpa.li.ˈtɔ/ and in others /ˌpa.le.ˈtɔ/ (not sure if the spelling differs too or just pronunciation) and paletó is also slang for "coffin" and therefore also a euphemism for death.
Apparently pall ("heavy cloth, shroud, or cloak") is also where pallbearer comes from (I'd never really thought about what it would refer to specifically, technically it means they carry the shroud, not the coffin or the remains*) and also the saying "to cast a pall over" (again one I'd never stopped to think about where it might come from; it means something figuratively covers the mood or atmosphere like a cloak or shroud).
It's actually really cool although I wasn't expecting to find so much death and gloom among the results of my search.

*when I was a child, I unfortunately assumed pallbearer was *Paul bearer and wondered who Paul was and why we used his name in this context regardless of who the funeral was actually for.

[linguoboy]

paletó (generally old-fashioned) suit jacket

paletó plasterer's trowel [augmentative of paleta spade, trowel]

[Linguaphile]

paletó (generally old-fashioned) suit jacket

paletó plasterer's trowel [augmentative of paleta spade, trowel]

Oh yeah, if you want ones that aren't etymologically related, that's a whole 'nother rabbit hole! Spanish has several ( paleto is like a hillbilly, redneck, or country bumpkin) and Wiktionary claims that палльтэ comes from пальто, but as far as I know the only meaning of палльтэ is "to be frightened, scared" and that is definitely not related to пальто. So unless it has a secondary meaning of "coat" (as Glosbe claims but I don't trust it, I'm pretty sure the correct word is пальта for "overcoat" instead of палльтэ), I think Wiktionary and Glosbe have gotten that wrong.

[linguoboy]

fregadora kitchen sink
fregadora carwash

flaca weakness
flaca girlfriend

[Rí.na.dTeangacha]

fregadora kitchen sink
fregadora carwash

esfregador - scourer, scrubber