blasen

• bl*sen (censored)

From Middle High German blāsen, Old High German blāsan, from Proto-West Germanic *blāsan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈblaːzn̩/, /ˈblaːzən/

• Audio:

  (file)

blasen (class 7 strong, third-person singular present bläst, past tense blies, past participle geblasen, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive or intransitive) to blow
2. (transitive, music) to play (a wind instrument)
3. (vulgar) to fellate, to perform oral sex

• “blasen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “blasen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “blasen” in Duden online
• “blasen” in OpenThesaurus.de
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “blasen”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

From Old Dutch *blāsan, from Proto-West Germanic *blāsan.

blâsen

1. to blow
2. to blow on a wind instrument, to toot
3. to sound (of a wind instrument)
4. to brag

• blâsere
• teblâsen
• verblâsen

• Dutch: blazen
  • Afrikaans: blaas
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: blasi
  • Negerhollands: blaas, aass, blaes
  • Petjo: blazen
  • → Papiamentu: blas
• Limburgish: blaoze
• Zealandic: blaeze
• → French: blaser
  • ⇒ French: blasé
    • → English: blasé
    • → German: blasiert

• “blasen”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “blasen”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

From blase +‎ -en (infinitival suffix).

• blase, blasyn

• IPA^(key): /ˈblaːzən/

blasen

2. To blaze; to be alight or flaming with intensity.
3. To shine, shimmer or give off light; to be very bright.
4. (rare) To be intense; to affect emotionally to a great degree.
5. (rare) To be exceptional or without peer.
6. (rare) To be nice or respectful.

• English: blaze
• Scots: bleize

• “blāsen, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 4 August 2018.

From Old English *blǣsan, from Proto-West Germanic *blāsan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈblaːzən/

blasen (rare)

2. To breathe or blow out.
4. To emblazon; to depict heraldically.

• English: blaze

• “blāsen, v.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 4 August 2018.
• “blāsen, v.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 4 August 2018.

blasen

1. plural of blase