rauchen

Meaning

1. (intransitive,weak) to smoke, give off smoke
2. (intransitive,transitive,weak) to smoke (tobacco etc.)

Concepts

smoke

fume

make smoke

smolder

smoke

rev up

accelerate

sputter

suffer

take

receive a blow

be hazy

smoking

🚬

smoulder

bloat

drink

🥤

give head

puff

Synonyms

qualmen

Rauch bilden

quarzen

räuchern

paffen

eine Zigarette anstecken

eine anstecken

Rauch machen

schmöken

dunsten

essen

🍽️

verräuchern

rauchig sein

Rauch ausatmen

eine rauchen gehen

dumm

eine durchziehen

lutschen

prahlen

saugen

schenken

schwelen

totschießen

trinken

🥤

ausräuchern

Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

dämpfe

Aargau

röike

Basel-Landschaft

rauche

Basel-Landschaft

rauchne

Basel-Landschaft

flemme

St. Gallen

bäkla

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈʁaʊ̯xən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German: rouchen

Inherited from Old High German: rouhhen

In summary

From Middle High German rouchen, röuchen, from Old High German rouhhen, from Proto-West Germanic *raukijan. By surface analysis, Rauch (“smoke”) + -en.
The form without umlaut is due to (chiefly Upper German) umlaut hindrance before velars and/or readaptation to the noun. Some dialects use either form throughout, others came to distinguish both forms (transitive vs. intransitive). In the latter case, the umlauted form usually took on the transitive use. In Modern Standard German, räuchen was displaced by the extended form räuchern (see there). The use for “to inhale tobacco” (later 17th c.) is a calque of French fumer.