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The French word for to yawn is
bâiller





to yawn

French Definition


yawn
     1. v. Bâiller.
           It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, (The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling)
           Il était sept heures, par un soir très chaud, sur les collines de Seeonee. Père Loup s'éveilla de son somme journalier, se gratta, bailla
     2. n. Bâillement.
     3. n. (Figuré) Événement ennuyeux.



Translations for yawn and their definitions

bâiller
     1. v. to yawn


bâillement
     1. n-m. yawn (the action of yawning)
     2. n-m. large gap


béer
     1. v. to gape, yawn
     2. v. to be wide open


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