tafanare

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Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From tafano +‎ -are.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ta.faˈna.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ta‧fa‧nà‧re

Verb[edit]

tafanàre (first-person singular present tafàno, first-person singular past historic tafanài, past participle tafanàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (intransitive, rare) to rummage everywhere
  2. (transitive, rare) to bug, to pester
    • 1883, Carlo Collodi, chapter 26, in Le Avventure di Pinocchio; republished ‎[1]Milano: Casa Editrice Bietti, 1954, page 115:
      sentendosi scappar la pazienza, si rivolse a quelli che più lo tafanavano e pigliavano giuoco di lui, e disse loro…
      feeling his run out, he turned to face those that pestered him and made fun of him the most, and said to them…

Conjugation[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • tafanare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • tafanare in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication