Lingerie exclusively for more lightweight items of female undergarments. The French word in its original form derives from the old French word "linge", meaning 'linen'. So "faire le linge", comes to mean "do the laundry". In French the word "lingerie" applies to all undergarments for either sex. In English it means women's underwear or nightclothes. Lingerie as a word was first used to refer to underwear and bras in 1922. Informal usage suggests visually appealing or even erotic clothing. Although most lingerie is designed to be worn by women, some manufactures now design lingerie for men. The concept of lingerie is
Baka (Japanese word) that "baka" derives from a Sanskrit word meaning "fool". According to the Japanese linguist and lexicographer Shinmura Izuru, the Edo-period scholar Amano Sadakage 天野信景 (1663–1733) originally suggested that Japanese Buddhist priests coined the word "baka" "fool" from Sanskrit. Modern reference works give two possible Sanskrit sources for the word, "moha" (transcribed 慕何) "foolish" and "mahallaka" (摩訶羅) "stupid". Sanskrit "moha" मोह means "bewilderment, loss of consciousness, delusion, folly" and comes from the root "muh" "bewildered, perplexed, confused". Sanskrit "mahallaka" means "senile, feeble minded, stupid, decrepit" and comes from "mūrkha" मोह "dull, stupid, foolish, inexperienced; fool". Other proposed etymologies for "baka" are