Brouhaha

Have you ever been involved in a brouhaha, an event defined by Merriam-Webster as a hubbub or an uproar?
 
The word brouhaha came to English in 1890 from 15th century French brouhaha, a word from the medieval theater of that time meaning “the cry of the devil disguised as clergy” (Online Etymological Dictionary).
 
Before that time, the origins of brouhaha are unknown; however, some sources suggest that it comes from the Classical Hebrew phrase barukh habba (“blessed be the one who comes”) as in Psalm 118.26.
 
Merriam-Webster states, “Although brouhaha [came to English] directly from French, etymologists have connected the French derivation to that frequently recited Hebrew phrase, distorted to something like brouhaha by worshippers whose knowledge of Hebrew was limited. The word eventually came to be used in a sense similar to "applause" and in the sense of "a noisy confusion of sound"—the latter being the sense that was later extended in English to refer to any tumultuous and confused situation.”
 
Reference: Online Etymological Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com/