accord

→ Danish: akkord

→ German: Akkord

→ Norwegian Bokmål: akkord

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: akkord

→ Ottoman Turkish: اقورد (akord)

Turkish: akor, akort

→ Persian: آکورد (âkord)

→ Swedish: ackord

Deverbal from accorder. Compare with Catalan acord.


plant

Deverbal from planter. Doublet of plan (“plan, map”).


claque

→ Catalan: claca

→ English: claque

→ German: Claque

→ Italian: claque

→ Portuguese: claque

→ Spanish: claque

Deverbal from claquer (“to clap”). Sense 5 developed as paying audience members to applaud started at the Paris Opera.


labour

Deverbal from labourer. See also labeur.


neige

Deverbal from neiger. Displaced Old French noif, from Latin nix, nivem.

snow, pattern of dots seen on an untuned television set


import

Coordinate term: export


adresse

Inherited from Middle French [Term?], from Old French adrece, from Old French adresser. Equivalent to a deverbal from adresser.

(computing) address (location or instructions to location a piece of data)


adresse

Related to etymology 1. Influenced by adroit. Equivalent to a deverbal from adresser.

Dès qu’ils aperçoivent un caret ou une tortue franche, ils tachent de les avoir à portée et dans le moment favorable ils lancent avec une adresse étonnante un des harpons en visant sur la tête ou la queue pour ne pas dommager les plaques latérales; qui dans les carets font la valeur de l’animal.

1874, François P. L. Pollen, D. C. van Dam, Recherches sur la Faune de Madagascar et de ses dépendances, page 30:

As soon as they spot a loggerhead turtle or a green sea turtle, they try to get it within range, and when the time is right they launch with astonishing dexterity one of the harpoons, aiming for the head or the tail so as not to damage the side plates, which in turtles the value of the animal is found.


calque

→ Belarusian: ка́лька (kálʹka)

→ Bulgarian: ка́лка (kálka)

→ Catalan: calc (semantic loan)

→ Czech: kalk

→ English: calque

→ Georgian: კალკი (ḳalḳi)

→ Italian: calco (semantic loan)

→ Latvian: kalks

→ Macedonian: калка (kalka)

→ Polish: kalka

→ Romanian: calc

→ Russian: ка́лька (kálʹka)

→ Serbo-Croatian: ка̏лк (kȁlk)

→ Slovak: kalk

→ Slovene: kalk

→ Spanish: calco (semantic loan)

→ Ukrainian: ка́лька (kálʹka)

→ Yiddish: קאַלקע (kalke)

Deverbal from calquer, borrowed from Italian calcare, from Latin calcāre (“to tread”).


coupe

→ Greek: κουπ (koup)


serre

→ Turkish: sera

a tool serving to press one or more objects together

Press or pinces allowing to press together the two parts of a mould together

Tenir dans ses serres.

(in the plural) the clutches or talons of a raptor, or of a bird

Closed space in which something (such as vegetables) is conserved


pardon

desc

→ Bulgarian: пардон (pardon) (colloquial)

→ Czech: pardon (colloquial)

desctree

→ Dutch: pardon
Negerhollands: pardon, bardon
→ Saramaccan: padón

→ English: pardon

→ Greek: μπαρδόν (bardón)

→ Hungarian: pardon

→ Macedonian: пардон (pardon)

→ Ottoman Turkish: پاردون (pardon)
Turkish: pardon

→ Polish: pardon

→ Romanian: pardon

→ Russian: пардон (pardon) (colloquial)


pardon

Dutch: pardon
Negerhollands: pardon, bardon

German: Pardon

Hungarian: pardon

Romanian: pardon

Swedish: pardon


trouble

→ German: Trubel

Deverbal from troubler or from Old French troble.

trouble bipolaire

trouble de la personnalité

trouble de l’érection

trouble de l’humeur

trouble du sommeil

trouble mental

trouble obsessionnel compulsif

trouble psychiatrique

trouble psychique


exploit

→ Italian: exploit

Deverbal from exploiter. Corresponds with Old French espleit; cf. Latin explicitus.


export

Coordinate term: import


effort

→ Romanian: efort

→ Turkish: efor

Inherited from Middle French, from Old French esfort, from esforcier; morphologically, deverbal from efforcer. Compare Spanish esfuerzo, Catalan esforç, Portuguese esforço, Italian sforzo.

Ils n’ont pas fait le moindre effort pour être polis avec lui.

They have not made the slightest effort to be polite with them.


ponte

Avant le premier tour, alors que les pontes du parti clamaient leur objectif de 5/5 dans le département, elle était même devenue l’enjeu principal de ces élections.

2024 July 8, Jonathan Sollier, “Catherine Rimbert réussit son pari”, in La Provence, page 8:

(by extension, colloquial) mogul, bigwig (person of influence)


éclair

→ Bulgarian: еклер (ekler)

→ Dutch: eclair

→ English: éclair

→ German: Eclair

desc

→ Greek: εκλέρ (eklér), εκλαίρ n (eklaír)

→ Italian: éclair

→ Macedonian: еклер (ekler)

→ Polish: ekler

→ Portuguese: ecler

→ Romanian: ecler

→ Russian: экле́р (eklér)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: еклер

Latin script: ekler

→ Spanish: éclair

→ Swedish: éclair

→ Turkish: ekler


enchère

bid (in a sale, an auction or the card game bridge)


affront

→ German: Affront

→ Polish: afront

→ Romanian: afront

From Old French afront. Synchronically analysable as a deverbal from affronter.


élan

→ English: élan

→ German: Elan

→ Portuguese: elã, élan

→ Romanian: elan


intrigue

→ English: intrigue


rapport

→ Crimean Tatar: raport

→ Danish: rapport

→ English: rapport

→ German: Rapport

→ Luxembourgish: Rapport

→ Norman: rapport

→ Norwegian Bokmål: rapport

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: rapport

→ Polish: raport

→ Russian: ра́порт (ráport), → Russian: раппорт (rapport)

→ Swedish: rapport

→ Turkish: rapor

rapport de stage

internship report, training period report


doute

Il n’y avait pas le moindre doute sur l’identité de l’envahisseur.

There wasn't the slightest doubt about the identity of the invader.


fracas

→ English: fracas

Probably an independent derivation from fracasser, from Italian fracassare. Alternatively directly borrowed from Italian fracasso, from the same verb.


fatigue

Near-synonym: épuisement

tomber de fatigue

to be exhausted, to be asleep on one's feet, to drop from exhaustion

coup de fatigue

sous le coup de la fatigue


vol

prendre son vol


éclat

→ English: éclat

→ German: Eklat

Deverbal from éclater (“to burst”), from Middle French esclater (“to break, break violently”), from Old French esclater (“to separate from, sunder out”) (deverbal also in Old French esclat), from Frankish *slaitan (“to split, break”), from Proto-Germanic *slaitijaną, causative of Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to cut up, split”). Akin to Old High German sleizan (“to tear”), Old English slītan (“to split”). More at slice, slit, slate, slat.

der

Il a été blessé par un éclat d’obus.


garde

→ Turkish: gard


pisse

Ça pue la pisse.


flair

Deverbal from flairer, from Latin flagrare (“to blow”). Cognate to Portuguese cheiro.


pari

Romanian: pariu

Russian: пари́ (parí)


tabac

Le supermarché est fermé à cette heure-ci, il faudra acheter des bières dans un tabac.

The supermarket is closed at this time; you will have to buy beer in a corner shop.


soupir

Deverbal from soupirer (Old French sopir, sospir), or possibly from Latin suspirium.


début

→ Afrikaans: debuut

desc

→ Armenian: (via Russian) դեբյուտ (debyut)

→ Azerbaijani: debüt

→ Belarusian: дэбю́т (debjút)

→ Czech: debut

→ Danish: debut

→ Dutch: debuut
→ Indonesian: début

→ Esperanto: debuto

→ Estonian: (possibly via German) debüüt

→ Georgian: (possibly via Russian) დებიუტი (debiuṭi)

→ German: Debüt

desctree

→ English: debut, début
→ Cantonese: 地標／地标 (dei⁶ biu¹)

→ Finnish: debyytti

→ Hindi: डेब्यू (ḍebyū)

→ Hebrew: דבוט (debut)

→ Ido: debuto

→ Italian: debutto

→ Japanese: デビュー (debyū)

→ Korean: 데뷔 (debwi)

desc

⇒ Latvian: (possibly via a Germanic intermediate) debija

→ Lithuanian: debiutas

→ Luxembourgish: Debut

→ Norwegian Bokmål: debut

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: debut

→ Polish: debiut

→ Romanian: debut

→ Russian: дебю́т (debjút)

→ Slovak: debut

→ Spanish: debut

→ Swedish: debut

→ Ukrainian: дебю́т (debjút)

→ Urdu: ڈیبیو (ḍebyū)

→ Yiddish: דעבוט (debut), (possibly via Slavic) דעביוט (debyut)

Inherited from Middle French début, deverbal of desbuter (“to move, begin”) (whence débuter).


requin

→ English: requin

Haitian Creole: reken

→ Romanian: rechin

→ Polish: rekin

1539; Norman reflex of Old French reschin (12th c.), deverbal from reschignier (“to grimace while baring teeth”), rekigner (“to make an ugly face”), from Frankish *kīnan (“to split open”).

deverbal

(derogatory) a person profiting from others by treachery


espoir

tant qu'il y a de la vie, il y a de l'espoir


entrepôt

Deverbal from entreposer (“to store goods in a warehouse”), with the ending influenced by dépôt (“store, warehouse, depot”).

Near-synonyms: dépôt, magasin


emploi

→ Russian: амплуа́ (ampluá)

Puisque je n’ai pas d’emploi, j’écris un roman.

Since I have no job, I'm writing a novel.

Il y a un manque d’emploi dans ce quartier.

There is a lack of employment in this area.

Je n’en ai pas l’emploi.

emploi transitif, emploi absolu, emploi concessif

transitive use, absolute use, concessive use

emploi fautif


souci

N’ayez pas de soucis.


tournoi

→ Turkish: turnuva

Inherited from Old French tornoi; morphologically, deverbal from tournoyer (“to turn around, spin”).


dessin

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: دسن (desen), دهسن (desen)
Turkish: desen

→ Polish: deseń

→ Romanian: desen

Deverbal from desseigner, dessigner, dessiner (influenced by Italian disegno). Doublet of dessein and design.

Aussi modeste qu’habile, il n’était jamais content de ses dessins, lors même qu’ils avaient mérité les suffrages des connaisseurs.

As modest as he was skilful, he was never happy with his drawings, even when they had won the approval of connoisseurs.


rogne

se mettre en rogne

chercher des rognes à quelqu’un

to pick on someone; to get someone in trouble


écoute

écoutes téléphoniques
écoutes téléphoniques

(espionage) (always in plural) listening in, especially short for écoutes téléphoniques (phone hacking)


réserve

→ Romanian: rezervă

→ Russian: резе́рв (rezérv)

→ Turkish: rezerv

→ Ukrainian: резе́рв (rezérv)

(military) reserve (body of troops kept in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; force or body of troops kept for an exigency)


drague

Deverbal from draguer, ultimately from Etymology 1 above.


entraide

mutual aid (action of helping one another)


relève

(military) changing, changeover, relief (release from a post or duty, as when replaced by another)


trousse

Inherited from Old French trousse, trosse, torse. Equivalent to deverbal formation from trousser.

trousse de secours

kit (small handheld package containing a set of tools for a particular purpose)


soutien

→ Bulgarian: сутие́н (sutién)

→ Egyptian Arabic: ستيان (sutyān)

→ Persian: سوتین (sutiyan)

→ Greek: σουτιέν (soutién)

→ Khmer: អាវស៊ូជាង (ʼaaw suuciəng)

→ Portuguese: sutiã

→ Romanian: sutien

→ Turkish: sütyen, sutyen

→ Vietnamese: xu-chiêng


évent

blowhole (spiracle on the top of the head through which cetaceans breathe)


épreuve

(film, television, in the plural) rushes


poisse

On a raté deux bus et un avion, on a vraiment eu la poisse.


incruste

(informal) gatecrasher, parasite, bad penny


gamelle

→ German: Gamelle

→ Italian: gamella

→ Malagasy: gamela

→ Vietnamese: cà-mèn

Borrowed from Spanish gamella, from Latin camella.


plombe

Deverbal from plomber (“to strike, sound”).

deverbal

Ca m’a pris une plombe de venir jusqu’ici.

Ha ! Ha ! Ça fait plaisir la petite piscine, une plombe que j’y étais pas allé.

2008, Bastien Vivès, Le goût du chlore [A Taste of Chlorine], Casterman, →ISBN, page 37:

Ha ha! I like the swimming pool; it's ages since I've been.


essor

en plein essor


déchet

T’étais un vrai déchet cette soirée-là !

(of a person, slang) a mess, a basket case (especially after having drunk alcohol)


détour

From Old French destour, deverbal from destourner.


regrat

regrating (the trade of items such as salt and grains in small quantities or second-hand)


retard

→ Norwegian Bokmål: retard

→ Turkish: rötar


blême

Putain, c’ qu’il est blême, mon HLM ! / Et la môme du huitième, le hasch, elle l’aime !

1980, “Dans Mon H.L.M.”, in Marche à l'ombre, performed by Renaud:

Fuck, my block of flats is drab! / And the girl on the eighth floor, she likes hash!

Bertrand était devenu blême, il avait quand même acheté son stock de saumon, et deux bouteilles de vodka.

2015 January, Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex, volume 1, Éditions Grasset, →ISBN, page 21:


repaire

Deverbal from repairer. Doublet of repère.


ajout

Deverbal from ajouter. Neologism by André Gide, coined in his Journals in 1895.


rallonge

extension cable, extension cord, extension lead


méprise

L’homme est tué par méprise.


renfort

venir en renfort

Les renforts arrivent !


démenti

denial (claim that a rumour or other statement is not true)


relance

Near-synonyms: reprise, redressement


tracas

Comment éviter tous ces tracas ?


rengaine

toujours la même rengaine


pleur

Inherited from Old French plor; deverbal from pleurer.

en pleurs


cumul

cumul des mandats

cumul de plusieurs fonctions

act of holding several things concurrently; combining


discrédit

tomber en discrédit

to fall into disrepute, to fall out of favour


démarque

markdown (reduction in price in order to stimulate sales)


décalque

→ Portuguese: decalque


tripotée

Deverbal from tripoter (“to feel up”), from 1843. Sense of "horde" or "large quantity" from 1867.

(familiar) beating, thrashing, flogging, beatdown


bamboche

Back-formation from bambochade, likely under the influence of débauche (“debauchery”), and possibly also bidoche (“meat”), médianoche (“midnight meal”). By surface analysis, deverbal from bambocher.

surf

faire bombance


précompte

Near-synonyms: retenue, prélèvement

précompte mobilier

précompte immobilier

précompte professionnel


appel à l'aide

fr-noun

appel à l’aide m (plural appels à l’aide)

appel à l’ aide (canonical masculine)
appels à l’aide (plural)

(figuratively) cry for help (acting out as a means of displaying a subconscious desire for attention or help)


adon

Ce qu’elle avait pris pour pur adon ou visites amicales se révélait de la curiosité méchante.

1945, G. Guèvremont, Le Survenant, page 236:

That which she had taken for pure good will or friendly visits was revealed to be a malicious curiosity.


réassort

réassort m (countable and uncountable, plural réassorts)


mâchon

(Lyon, cooking) a traditional breakfast meal of cuts of pork offal, characteristic of Lyon.