gape

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English gapen, from Old Norse gapa (“to gape”) (compare Swedish gapa, Danish gabe), from Proto-Germanic *gapōną (descendants Middle English geapen, Dutch gapen, German gaffen), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰеh₂b-. Cognates include Russian зяпа (zjapa). Doublet of gap. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɡeɪp/ Rhymes: -eɪp === Verb === gape (third-person singular simple present gapes, present participle gaping, simple past and past participle gaped) (intransitive) To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise. 1723, Jonathan Swift, The Journal of a Modern Lady, 1810, Samuel Johnson, The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 11, page 467, She stretches, gapes, unglues her eyes, / And asks if it be time to rise; (intransitive) To stare in wonder. (intransitive) To open wide; to display a gap. (intransitive, of a cat) To open the passage to the vomeronasal organ, analogous to the flehming in other animals. (pornography) To depict a dilated anal or vaginal cavity upon penetrative sexual activity. ==== Translations ==== === Noun === gape (countable and uncountable, plural gapes) (uncommon) An act of gaping; a yawn. A large opening. (uncountable) A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping. The width of an opening. (zoology) The maximum opening of the mouth (of a bird, fish, etc.) when it is open. ==== Translations ==== === Derived terms === === Anagrams === Page, peag, PAGE, page, EGPA == Dutch == === Verb === gape (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of gapen === Anagrams === page == Northern Sotho == === Adverb === gape again == Norwegian Bokmål == === Etymology === From Old Norse gapa. === Verb === gape (imperative gap, present tense gaper, passive gapes, simple past gapa or gapte, past participle gapa or gapt, present participle gapende) to gape (of a mouth, hole, wound etc., be wide open) gap opp! - open wide! (e.g. at the dentist) === References === “gape” in The Bokmål Dictionary. == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Alternative forms === gapa gåpå, gåppå (Trøndelag, Nord-Gudbrandsdalen) === Etymology === From Old Norse gapa. === Verb === gape (present tense gapar or gaper, past tense gapa or gapte, past participle gapa or gapt, passive infinitive gapast, present participle gapande, imperative gap) to gape (of a mouth, hole, wound etc., be wide open) === References === “gape” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.