Fulano

Meaning

Alternative letter-case form of fulano (“so-and-so”)

Concepts

John Doe

Joe Bloggs

dirty dog

git

lowlife

man in the street

puke

rat

🐀

rotter

skunk

🦨

so-and-so

stinker

stinkpot

the man in the street

Jane Doe

Joe Blow

John Smith

scum bag

scuzzball

John Doo

Jane Doo

the man on the Clapham omnibus

bum

Fred Bloggs

crumb

Translations

Tartempion

Fulano

Jean Dupont

Otto Normalverbraucher

John Doe

pocavergonya

cabró

Einguss

Dummkopf

rata

🐀

Erika Mustermann

Soundso

Lieschen Müller

gilipollas

Hyphenated as

Fu‧la‧no

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fuˈlɐ̃.nu/

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish: Fulano

Cognate with Hebrew: פלוני

In summary

Borrowed from Spanish Fulano, from Arabic فُلَان (fulān), cognate to Hebrew פלוני. Displaced Old Galician-Portuguese Foão.