gab

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• /ɡæb/
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• CMU ARPABET: G AE1 B Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Clipping of Gabriel.

Inherited from Middle English gab, gabbe, from Old Norse gabb (“jest, mockery”) (whence also Old French gab, gap (“mockery, derision, scorn”)). Cognate with Icelandic gabb (“hoax”).

From Middle English gabben, from Old English gabban (“to scoff, mock, delude, jest”) and Old Norse gabba (“to mock, make sport of”); both from Proto-Germanic *gabbōną (“to mock, jest”), from Proto-Indo-European *gheh1bh- (“to be split, be forked, gape”). Cognate with Scots gab (“to mock, prate”), North Frisian gabben (“to jest, sport”), Middle Dutch gabben (“to mock”), Middle Low German gabben (“to jest, have fun”).

38 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Assamese: বকনি (bokoni) — Idle chatter
• Bulgarian: бърборене (bǎrborene) — Idle chatter
• Chinese Mandarin: 廢話 /废话 (fèihuà) — Idle chatter
• Czech: klábosení — Idle chatter
• Czech: tlachání — Idle chatter
• Dutch: geklets — Idle chatter
• Dutch: gebabbel — Idle chatter
• Dutch: gekakel — Idle chatter
• Esperanto: parolemo — Idle chatter
• Finnish: pulina — Idle chatter
• Finnish: pälpätys — Idle chatter
• Finnish: löpinä — Idle chatter
• French: bagou — Idle chatter
• Georgian: ყბედობა (q̇bedoba) — Idle chatter
• Georgian: ლაყბობა (laq̇boba) — Idle chatter
• German: Geschwätz — Idle chatter
• German: Gequassel — Idle chatter
• Irish: cabaireacht — Idle chatter
• Japanese: 無駄話 (mudabanashi) — Idle chatter
• Kyrgyz: бабыроо (babıroo) — Idle chatter
• Kyrgyz: эбирөө (ebiröö) — Idle chatter
• Russian: болтовня́ (boltovnjá) — Idle chatter
• Russian: трёп (trjop) — Idle chatter
• Assamese: বকা (boka) — to talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects
• Bulgarian: бърборя (bǎrborja) — to talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects
• Dutch: kletsen — to talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects
• Finnish: pulista — to talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects
• Finnish: pälpättää — to talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects
• French: papoter — to talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects
• French: bavarder — to talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects
• French: babiller — to talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects
• Georgian: ყბედობა (q̇bedoba) — to talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects
• Georgian: ლაყბობა (laq̇boba) — to talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects
• German: schwatzen — to talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects
• German: quasseln — to talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects
• Irish: bí ag cabaireacht — to talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects
• Russian: болта́ть (boltátʹ) — to talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects
• Russian: трепа́ться (trepátʹsja) — to talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects