brouhaha

French brouhaha, but disputed as to where from before that. Possibly from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Hebrew בָּרוּךְ הַבָּא (barúkh habá, “welcome”, literally “blessed is he who comes”).

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brouhaha (plural brouhahas)

1. A stir; a fuss or uproar.

   It caused quite a brouhaha when the school suspended one of its top students for refusing to adhere to the dress code.

• (fuss, uproar): commotion, hubbub, kerfuffle, ruckus, hoo-ha

Disputed. Possibly from an onomatopoeic assimilation from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Hebrew בָּרוּךְ הַבָּא (barúkh habá, “welcome”, literally “blessed is he who comes”)

In regards to the semantic evolution to "noisy meeting" compare with ramdam, sabbat

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brouhaha m (plural brouhahas)

1. brouhaha
   • 1865, Jules Verne, De la Terre à la Lune:

     Un brouhaha, une tempête d’exclamations accueillit ces paroles.

     A brouhaha, a gale of exclamations welcomed those words.

• “brouhaha”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• Michael Quinion (2004) “Brouhaha”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, →ISBN.

• “brouhaha”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.