gafe

Unknown.

gafe m or f (plural gafes)

1. jinxed (bringing bad luck)

gafe m or f by sense (plural gafes)

1. jinx (something or someone believed to bring bad luck)

• Gafe is a false friend and does not mean gaffe. Galician equivalents are shown in the "Translations" section of the English entry gaffe.

• agoiro m

• gafar

gafe

1. inflection of gafar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Borrowed from French gaffe.^[1][2]

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -afi, (Portugal) -afɨ
• Hyphenation: ga‧fe

gafe f (plural gafes)

1. gaffe (a foolish error, especially one made in public)

   Synonym: (Brazil) mico

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡafe/ [ˈɡa.fe]
• Rhymes: -afe
• Syllabification: ga‧fe

Unknown. Maybe related to French gaffe (“blunder, goof up”) from Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍆𐌰𐌷 (gafah, “clasp”).

gafe m or f (masculine and feminine plural gafes)

1. jinxed (bringing bad luck)

gafe m or f by sense (plural gafes)

1. jinx (something or someone believed to bring bad luck)

   Synonym: cenizo

• Gafe is a false friend and does not mean gaffe. Spanish equivalents are shown in the "Translations" section of the English entry gaffe.

• gafa/gafas
• gafar
• gafedad
• gafo

gafe

1. inflection of gafar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “gafe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024