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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.

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
  1. ^ “gafe”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
  2. ^ “gafe”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
  • 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.

gafe

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