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"Tafanear" (el verbo)

French translation: Cf. définition


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23:15 Jun 15, 2009
Catalan to French translations [PRO]
Slang / Origen de une palabra
Catalan term or phrase: "Tafanear" (el verbo)
"Tafanear" (creo que significa "fisgonear" en castella).

Me gustar�a saber cual es la origen de esa palabra (o mejor dicho, la etimologia de esta palabra).

Mercy.
Thierry LOTTE
Local time: 21:12
French translation:Cf. définition
Explanation:
Bonjour Thierry,

L'orthographe correcte du verbe est "tafanejar" :
(1839, de tafaner)
Exercir algú la seva curiositat en coses que no li haurien d'importar, en afers d'altri.

Tafaner -a : 1618 ; d'origin incert, probablement alteració de "tofoner", der. de "tòfona", aplicat inicialment a persones o gossos cercadors de tòfones que furguen i ho remenen tot.
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Thomas Renuy
Local time: 21:12
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4 +1Cf. définition
Thomas Renuy
4mettre son nez dans les affaires des autres
Irène Guinez


  

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Cf. définition


Explanation:
Bonjour Thierry,

L'orthographe correcte du verbe est "tafanejar" :
(1839, de tafaner)
Exercir algú la seva curiositat en coses que no li haurien d'importar, en afers d'altri.

Tafaner -a : 1618 ; d'origin incert, probablement alteració de "tofoner", der. de "tòfona", aplicat inicialment a persones o gossos cercadors de tòfones que furguen i ho remenen tot.


Thomas Renuy
Local time: 21:12
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 4
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mettre son nez dans les affaires des autres


Explanation:
tafanejar


1 v. intr. [LC] Algú, exercir la seva curiositat en coses que no li importen, en afers d’altri. Passa l’estona tafanejant.

2 tr. [LC] Algú, exercir la seva curiositat (en coses que no li importen, en afers d’altri). Què tafanegeu, aquí?

Irène Guinez
Spain
Local time: 21:12
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench, Native in SpanishSpanish
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