to grope, pad (walk hesitatingly, especially in the dark) · to grope, frisk (search by feeling)
çekim: geçmiş tappte · ortaç getappt · şimdiki tappt · ulaç tappend
köken: From Middle High German tāpen with sporadic shortening before /p/ (as in Wappen, Schuppe from Middle High German wāpen, schuope). The verb is of onomatopoeic origin and comparable to the interjection tapp imitating soft walking sounds, though this is attested much later.
aile: ertappen, Getappe, im Dunkeln tappen, Tapper, Tapperei, tappern, täppisch, tapsen
to feel one's way, grope around
çekim: geçmiş tâtonné · ortaç tâtonné · şimdiki tâtonne · ulaç tâtonnant
köken: From tâter.
to feel, to touch · to feel
çekim: geçmiş palpé · ortaç palpado · şimdiki palpa
köken: Borrowed from Latin palpāre (“to touch softly”).
🔊 todo eso se palpaba en la sala
🔊 Así, el público palpa la situación y ejerce de escudo humano ante un posible desalojo.
to grope, to paw, to fondle, to cop a feel
çekim: geçmiş palpeggiàto · ortaç palpeggiàto · şimdiki palpéggia · ulaç palpeggiànte
köken: From palpare + -eggiare.
aile: palpeggiamento, palpeggiata
to feel, to grope
çekim: geçmiş betastten · ortaç betast · şimdiki betast · ulaç betastend
köken: From Middle Dutch betasten. Equivalent to be- + tasten.
aile: betasting
feel (transitive: to sense by touch) · grope (to search by feeling)
çekim: geçmiş apalpei · ortaç apalpado · şimdiki apalpa
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese, borrowed from Latin palpāre. Doublet of palpar and poupar.
to grope, fumble (exploratory) · to grope, fumble (sexual)
çekim: geçmiş πασπάτεψα · ortaç έχοντας πασπατέψει · şimdiki πασπατεύει · ulaç πασπατεύοντας
köken: Inherited from Byzantine Greek πασπατεύω, of uncertain origin.
fumble for, feel around for · search, investigate · enjoy the scenery
çekim: geçmiş 探った
köken: Compare 探(さが)す (sagasu, “to search”).
to grope, to fumble (feel around with broad movements, especially when unable to see)
çekim: geçmiş famlade · ortaç famlande · ulaç famlande
köken: Unknown. Likely imitative. Various variations exist, for example: fumla.
🔊 Han famlade efter ficklampan i mörkret
To grope, paw, finger (handle or touch clumsily or too familiarly)
çekim: geçmiş kopeloinut · şimdiki kopeloi · ulaç kopeloiva
köken: kope- + -loida. Related to Ingrian kopeloja and Karelian kopeloija. Compare also Estonian kobama, dialectal kobeldama.
aile: käsikopelolla, käsikopelolta
to grope (one's way)
çekim: geçmiş tápala · ortaç tápala · şimdiki tápá
eş: šátrat
köken: Inherited from Old Czech tápati, a synonym of topiti se (“to drown”) (see topit). The current meaning comes from German tappen.
🔊 tápat v nejistotě
🔊 tápat rukou po holi
to fumble
çekim: geçmiş bâjbâit · ortaç bâjbâit · şimdiki bâjbâie
köken: Unknown.
to feel or grope about to find a thing or one's way, like a blind man
çekim: geçmiş խարխափեի · şimdiki խարխափում է
köken: Learned borrowing from Old Armenian խարխափեմ (xarxapʻem).
aile: խարխափուն
to touch, feel
çekim: geçmiş palpis · ortaç palpinta · ulaç palpanta
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