to bark briefly · to speak or shout in an aggressive, rude manner
çekim: geçmiş blaffte · ortaç geblafft · şimdiki blafft · ulaç blaffend
eş: bläffen
köken: Ultimately onomatopoeic. Attested 15th century in the sense “to wail with pain”, compare also Alemannic German blaffe (“to chatter”). The sense “to bark” is more northern, possibly borrowed from Middle Dutch blaffen (1350), whence also obsolete English blaff. Compare bellen, kläffen.