gaffen

Meaning

to stare at curiously, rubberneck

Concepts

gape

rubberneck

gaze

gaze at

goggle

look

see

👀

yawn

gawp

behold

gaup

gawk

Synonyms

bestaunen

starren

stieren

angaffen

glotzen

anglotzen

anstarren

Maulaffen feilhalten

Augen machen

spannen

mit offenem Mund anstarren

betrachten

gähnen

schauen

sehen

👀

Stielaugen machen

ansehen

sich den Hals verrenken

Glotzaugen machen

Translations

lonken

gapen

béer

bayer aux corneilles

embasbacar-se

bâiller

bailler

βλέπω

voir

👀

badauder

être béant

regarder bouche bée

rester bouche bée

s’ouvrir

bayer

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɡafɱ̩/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German: gaffen

Inherited from Old High German: *gaffōn

Cognate with Middle High German: kaffen

Inherited from Old High German: kapfēn

Cognate with Dutch: gapen

Cognate with English: gape

In summary

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 Germanic *kapēn. Doublet of jappen (which is from Low German), and cognate with Dutch gapen, English gape.