to stare at curiously, rubberneck
çekim: geçmiş gaffte · ortaç gegafft · şimdiki gafft · ulaç gaffend
köken: From Middle High German gaffen (“to gape; to stare”), from Old High German *gaffōn, from Proto-Germanic *gapōną (“to gaze, observe”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁y- (“to gape, be wide open”); influenced by and partly merged with Middle High German kaffen, a variant of kapfen (“to look, look surprised, gawk, wonder”), from Old High German kapfēn (“to look, stare, gawk, gape”), from Proto-West…
aile: Gaffer, Gegaffe, angaffen, begaffen, vergaffen
chatter, natter, banter (insignificant talk)
çekim: çoğul bavardages
eş: bavasserie
köken: From bavard (“chatty, talkative”) + -age.
chat, gossip, talk · type of dessert in the form of fritters dusted with sugar, eaten during Carnival time; similar to angel wings
çekim: çoğul chiacchiere
eş: ciance, ciarle, cicaleccio, vaniloquio, pettegolezzo, diceria
köken: Deverbal from chiacchierare (“to chat, talk”) + -a.
absence · backbiting, slander
köken: Borrowed from Arabic غَيْبَة (ḡayba, “absence”)
🔊 پس به غیبت نیم ذرهی حفظ کار به که اندر حاضری ز آن صد هزار
🔊 یاران را گفتی از دروغ و خیانت و غیبت دور باشید و جز این آنچه خواهید کنید.
backbiting, gossip, speaking badly of a person in his absence
çekim: çoğul qeybətlər · tamlayan qeybətin
köken: From Arabic غِيبَة (ḡība).
aile: qeybət etmək, qeybətçi, qeybətcil
slander, calumny
çekim: çoğul ғайбаттар · tamlayan ғайбаттың
köken: From Arabic غِيْبَة (ḡiyba),possibly via Persian غیبت.
aile: ғайбатшы
gossip, backbiting · slander
çekim: çoğul غەيۋەتلەر
köken: From Arabic غِيبَة (ḡība).
gossip, rumor
çekim: tamlayan ғәйбәттең
köken: From Arabic غِيبَة (ḡība). Cognate with Kazakh ғайбат (ğaibat, “slander”), Uzbek gʻiybat (“gossip”), Azerbaijani qeybət (“gossip”).
🔊 Исламда ғәйбәт таратыу — хәрәм ғәмәл.
gossip
eş: eerroof, geklep, geklets, geroddel, kwaadsprekerij, labbekakkerij
köken: From achter (“behind”) + klappen (“to talk”), literally “talk behind one's back”.
🔊 De werksfeer was verziekt door al de achterklap onder het personeel.
to chat; to talk; to engage in a conversation
çekim: geçmiş bati papo · ortaç batido papo · şimdiki bate papo
gossip, tittle-tattle, idle talk (the act of talking about third parties, often negatively) · gossip, tale, rumour, story (stories and comments made while gossiping, often telling lies or stretching the truth)
çekim: çoğul κουτσομπολιά · tamlayan κουτσομπολιού
köken: κουτσομπολεύω (koutsompolévo) + -ιό (-ió).
aile: κουτσομπόλης, κουτσομπόλα, κουτσομπολεύω
🔊 Το κουτσομπολιό είναι γι’ αυτούς που δεν έχουν άλλο να κάνουν.
🔊 Να μην πιστεύεις τα κουτσομπολιά.
Japonca 🔊 世間話 /se̞kẽ̞mba̠na̠ɕi/ gossip, small talk
köken: Compound of 世間 (seken, “people, society”) + 話 (banashi, “story”). The hanashi changes to banashi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
gossip
köken: From 입 (ip, “mouth”) + 방아 (bang'a, “mill”).
gossip (idle talk)
çekim: tamlayan skvallers
köken: From skvallra (“tell on, gossip”). Not related to skvallerkål.
aile: skvallerbytta, skvallerspegel
chit-chat, gibble-gabble, pablum, small talk
çekim: çoğul gadki szmatki · tamlayan gadki szmatki
eş: puste słowa, pustosłowie, bicie piany
köken: Dvandva compound of gadka + szmatka, literally “rag talk”
rumor, speculation; idle talk
çekim: çoğul अफ़वाहें
köken: Borrowed from Arabic أَفْوَاه (ʔafwāh), plural of فَم (fam, “mouth”).
gossip · spiderwort, a plant in the genus Tradescantia
çekim: çoğul juorut · tamlayan juorun
köken: Unknown; the only possible cognate Karelian juoru is probably from Finnish. Possibly a variant of joru with secondary lengthening (*jooru).
aile: juoruilla, juorukki, juoruta, juoruakka, juorukalenteri, juorukello, juorukompassi, juorulehti, juorupalsta, juorupeili
rumor · scratch
çekim: çoğul drby · tamlayan drbu
eş: klep, kleveta, fáma, drbnutí, rýpnutí
köken: Deverbal from drbat.
gossip, chit-chat · slander
çekim: çoğul bârfe · tamlayan bârfe
köken: Back-formation from bârfi (“to gossip”).
chit-chat
çekim: çoğul csevegések
köken: From cseveg (“to chat”) + -és (noun-forming suffix).
aile: csevegési