acajou

→ English: cashew, acajou


orange

Inherited from Middle French orange, from Old French orenge, short form of late pomme d'orenge or pomme d'orange, which was calqued after Old Italian melarancia (mela + arancia). The o came into the word under influence of the place name Orange.
See English orange.

Les premiers TGV atlantiques étaient orange.

The first Atlantic TGV trains were orange.


fruit

Haitian Creole: fwi

Inherited from Middle French fruict, a latinized spelling of Old French fruit, from Latin frūctus (“enjoyment, proceeds, profits, produce, income”), a derivative of fruor (“have the benefit of, to use, to enjoy”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- (“to make use of, to have enjoyment of”).


kiwi

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omelette

→ English: omelette, omelet

→ Persian: املت (omlet)

→ Danish: omelet

desc

→ Portuguese: omelete, omeleta, omelette

→ Russian: омле́т (omlét)

on ne fait pas d’omelette sans casser des œufs


ail

q

from <i class="Latn mention" lang="fr">l’ail</i>

Haitian Creole: lay (from l’ail)

Mauritian Creole: lay (from l’ail)

Moore: lay (from l’ail)

Inherited from Old French, from Latin allium.


pomme

Inherited from Middle French pomme, from Old French pome, pume, from Latin pōma, plural of pōmum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular, from Proto-Italic *poomos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂po-h₁ém-os (“taken off”). Compare English pome.

inh

pomme épineuse

(botany) the fruit part of several vegetables, such as the heart of a cabbage or lettuce

C’est la reine des pommes !

C’est le carreau-loupe qui vient de disparaître, hé, pomme !

1972, Hervé Bazin, Cri de la chouette, Grasset, page 222:

It's the magnifying-glass that just disappeared, eh, idiot!

Elle mérite la pomme.

(figuratively) crown, prize, especially in regards to beauty (from the association with the Judgment of Paris)


poire

Inherited from Old French peire, from Vulgar Latin *pira, from the plural of Latin pirum, considered as a feminine singular.

a bulb, usually pear-shaped, used to collect gases or liquids, such as that of a dropper


prune

Inherited from Old French prune, from Vulgar Latin *prūna, feminine singular formed from the neutral plural of Latin prūnum, from Ancient Greek προῦμνον (proûmnon).


menthe

Haitian Creole: mant

→ Romanian: mentă


tomate

Haitian Creole: tomat

→ Hunsrik: Tomatt

→ Sedang: tơmat

Borrowed from Spanish tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl.


abricot

→ Basque: abrikot

→ Portuguese: abricote, abricó

From Middle French abricot, from dialectal Catalan abrecoc, abricoc, variants of standard albercoc, from Arabic اَلْبَرْقُوق (al-barqūq, “plums”), from Byzantine Greek βερικοκκία pl (berikokkía), from Ancient Greek πραικόκιον (praikókion), from Late Latin (persica) praecoqua pl, (mālum) praecoquum, neuter of Latin (persicum) praecox (literally “early-ripening peach”). Doublet of précoce.

bor

اَلْبَرْقُوق

der

Et comme un léger coup de cul pas forcément volontaire avait remonté sa minijupe à présent coincée au creux délicat de sa superbe cambrure de reins, ça faisait que Gribovitch jouissait d’une vue imprenable sur ses fesses abusivement appétissantes, voire même sur son entrefesse ainsi que sur les charmants oreillons d’un abricot carné sous-jacent, encore tout luisant du reliquat de la douche qui en avait jailli.

2014, Pierre Lucas, Police des mœurs, numéro 219 : Court têtue:

And as a light, not necessarily voluntary, smack on the ass had pulled up her miniskirt, currently stuck in the delicate hollow of the superb small of her back, it happened that Gribovitch enjoyed a breathtaking view of her abusively appetising buttocks, even seeing her butt crack as well as the charming swellings of an underlying fleshy apricot, still all shiny from the residue of the shower which had sprung from it.

(informal) vulva, vagina, female genitalia


abricot

bor

اَلْبَرْقُوق


bride

→ Portuguese: brida

Inherited from Middle French bride, from Old French bride (“rein, bridle”), from Middle High German brīdel (“rein, bridle”), from Old High German brīdil (“rein, bridle”) (compare also Old High German brittil (“rein, strap”), French bretelle), from Proto-West Germanic *brigdil (“bridle”).
Compare Spanish brida, Italian briglia. More at bridle.

der

à cheval donné on ne regarde pas la bride


caviar

→ Danish: kaviar

→ Norwegian Bokmål: kaviar

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: kaviar

→ Swedish: kaviar

Borrowed from Italian caviaro or Ottoman Turkish خاویار (havyar), from Persian خاویار (xâvyâr).


rutabaga

Brassica napus
Brassica napus#Translingual

swede, rutabaga (yellow root of Brassica napus)


courgette

→ Dutch: courgette

→ English: courgette

→ Portuguese: curgete

From courge (“vegetable marrow, marrow squash”) + -ette.

af

courgette (UK), zucchini (Australia, Canada, US)


courge

Inherited from Old French cohourge, ultimately from Latin cucurbita, perhaps via Vulgar Latin *cucurbica. Doublet of gourde (from the form cohourde).

marrow (UK; vegetable), vegetable marrow (UK), marrow squash (US)


avocat

fr-noun

avocat m (plural avocats, feminine avocate)

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: آووقات (avokat)
Turkish: avukat

Inherited from Old French avocat (12th c.), a borrowing from Latin advocātus. Doublet of avoué, which may be inherited or an earlier borrowing.


citron

From Latin citrus (“citron tree, thuja”), probably connected with Ancient Greek κέδρος (kédros, “cedar, juniper”).

cog

(slang, offensive, ethnic slur) East Asian


millet

fr-noun

millet m (usually uncountable, plural millets)

From mil + -et; a diminutive of mil, from Latin milium, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”).


cerise

Haitian Creole: seriz

→ English: cerise

→ Swedish: cerise

Inherited from Old French cerise, from Vulgar Latin ceresia, from the neuter plural of Late Latin ceresium, from Latin cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin.

Coordinate term: griotte


jalousie

Amaranthus tricolor
Amaranthus tricolor#Translingual

(botany) edible amaranth (Amaranthus tricolor)


raisin

Inherited from Old French raisin, from Late Latin racīmus, from Latin racēmus. Doublet of racème, a borrowing.

a size of paper (having such a watermark)


chou

fr-adj

chou (feminine choute, masculine plural choux, feminine plural choutes)

choute (feminine)
choux (masculine plural)
choutes (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old French chous, from Latin caulis, itself akin to or derived from Ancient Greek καυλός (kaulós).


ananas

Burmese: နာနတ် (nanat)

Saint Dominican Creole French: z'anana

→ Danish: ananas

→ Faroese: ananas

→ Greenlandic: ananassi

→ Icelandic: ananas

→ Esperanto: ananaso

Turkish: ananas

Introduced into French from settlers visiting the Indies; from Spanish ananás, from Portuguese ananás, from Old Tupi naná (“pineapple”).


artichaut

→ Vietnamese: atisô

Borrowed from Occitan artichaut, arquichaut, from Lombard articioch (cf. articiocco), from Old Spanish alcarchofa, from Andalusian Arabic الْخَرْشُوف (al-ḵaršūf), from Arabic الْخُرْشُوف (al-ḵuršūf).

der

Arabic الْخُرْشُوف (al-ḵuršūf)


banane

Borrowed from Portuguese banana, from a Niger-Congo language spoken in the Guinea region. See Portuguese banana for more information.

bum bag (UK, Australia), fanny pack (US, Canada), moon bag (South Africa)


endive

→ Iranian Persian: آنْدیوْ (ândiv)

Inherited from Middle French endive, endivie, andive, indivie, from Medieval Latin endivia or Italian indivia or endivia, suspected via Byzantine Greek ἐντύβιον (entúbion) from Latin intibus.

Une salade d’endive.

Cichorium intybus
Cichorium intybus#Translingual

(cooking) Belgian endive (edible chicory bud of Cichorium intybus)


cumin

From Latin cuminum, from Ancient Greek κύμινον (kúminon), itself of Semitic origin.


oignon

desctree

Saint Dominican Creole French: z'oignon
Haitian Creole: zonyon

Seychellois Creole: zonyon

Inherited from Middle French oingnon, from Old French oignon, from Latin ūniōnem.


durian

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From English durian, from Malay durian, from Proto-Malayic *duri-an, from (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duʀi-an.


quinoa

Borrowed from Spanish quinua, from Quechua kinwa.


forger

forger (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
forgeant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
forgé (participle past)
forge (first-person indicative present singular)
forges (indicative present second-person singular)
forge (indicative present singular third-person)
forgeons (first-person indicative plural present)
forgez (indicative plural present second-person)
forgent (indicative plural present third-person)
forgeais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
forgeais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
forgeait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
forgions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
forgiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
forgeaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
forgeai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
forgeas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
forgea (historic indicative past singular third-person)
forgeâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
forgeâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
forgèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
forgerai (first-person future indicative singular)
forgeras (future indicative second-person singular)
forgera (future indicative singular third-person)
forgerons (first-person future indicative plural)
forgerez (future indicative plural second-person)
forgeront (future indicative plural third-person)
forgerais (conditional first-person singular)
forgerais (conditional second-person singular)
forgerait (conditional singular third-person)
forgerions (conditional first-person plural)
forgeriez (conditional plural second-person)
forgeraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
forge (first-person present singular subjunctive)
forges (present second-person singular subjunctive)
forge (present singular subjunctive third-person)
forgions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
forgiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
forgent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
forgeasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
forgeasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
forgeât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
forgeassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
forgeassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
forgeassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
forge (imperative second-person singular)
forgeons (first-person imperative plural)
forgez (imperative plural second-person)

Inherited from Old French forger, forgier, from Latin fabricāre. Doublet of fabriquer.

c’est en forgeant qu’on devient forgeron


pomme de terre

fr-noun

pomme de terre f (plural pommes de terre)

→ German: Erdapfel (calque)

desc

→ Persian: سیب زمینی (sib-zamini) (calque)

→ Hebrew: תפוח אדמה (calque)

Literally, “apple of [the] earth”. The word pomme used to mean "fruit" in Old French. The French construction originated, as calques, Dutch aardappel, Icelandic jarðepli, Persian سیبزمینی (sib-zamini), Modern Hebrew תפוח אדמה (tapúakh adamá), the rare English earthapple, German Erdapfel, etc.

Solanum tuberosum
Solanum tuberosum#Translingual


pamplemousse

(botany, France, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, New Caledonia, Réunion, West Africa) pomelo

Cambodia; Laos; Algeria; Tunisia; Cambodia; Laos; Algeria; Tunisia


fraise

→ Arabic: فَرَّاز (farrāz)

→ Dutch: frees

→ English: fraise

→ German: Fräse

→ Belarusian: фрэ́за (fréza)

→ Czech: fréza, frézka

→ Bulgarian: фре́за (fréza), фрез (frez)

→ Macedonian: фреза (freza)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: фре́за

Latin script: fréza

→ Slovak: fréz, fréza, frézka

→ Slovene: frẹ̄za

→ Ukrainian: фре́за (fréza)

⇒ German: Fräser

desctree

⇒ German: Fräsmaschine
→ Bulgarian: фрезмаши́на (frezmašína)
→ Russian: фрезмаши́на (frezmašína)
→ Serbo-Croatian:
→ Cyrillic script: фрезмашина
→ Latin script: frezmašina

→ Polish: frez

→ Portuguese: fresa

→ Romanian: freză

→ Russian: фреза́ (frezá)

→ Spanish: fresa

→ Swedish: fräs

→ Ottoman Turkish: فرازه (freze)
Turkish: freze

Related to fraiser, or possibly from a Vulgar Latin *fresāre, from Latin fresum, past participle of frendō, or from a derived root *fresa. Compare Italian and Spanish fresa.


bugle

Borrowed from English bugle, itself from Anglo-Norman and Old French bugle, from Latin buculus.


bugle

Inherited from Old French bugle, probably borrowed from Medieval Latin bugula, probably related to Late Latin bugillō (cf. bouillon).


jaque

Inherited from Old French jaque; see there for more.


aubergine

Haitian Creole: berejèn

→ Breton: berjinezenn

→ Danish: aubergine

→ Dutch: aubergine

→ English: aubergine
Bislama: obesin

→ German: Aubergine

→ Limburgish: oberzjien

→ Lower Sorbian: oberžina

→ Luxembourgish: Aubergine

→ Manx: auberjeen

→ Norman: aubèrginne

→ North Frisian: aubergine

→ Norwegian: aubergine

→ Occitan: aubergina

→ Picard: oubàrjine

→ Piedmontese: obergin-a

→ Polish: oberżyna

→ Romansch: oberschina

→ Scots: aubergine

→ Swedish: aubergin

→ Walloon: åberdjene

→ West Frisian: auberzjine

Borrowed from Catalan albergínia, from Arabic اَلْبَاذِنْجَان (al-bāḏinjān, “the eggplant”), from Classical Persian بَادِنْگَان (bādingān), from بَاتِنْگَان (bātingān), from Sanskrit वातिगगम (vātigagama, “eggplant”, literally “the plant that cures the wind”).

der

اَلْبَاذِنْجَان

(historical) a French female traffic warden (from the colour of their uniforms; more recently pervenche)


figue

→ Luxembourgish: Fig

Haitian Creole: fig (“banana”)

⇒ Haitian Creole: fig frans (“fig”)

Inherited from Old French figue, borrowed from Old Occitan figa, from Vulgar Latin *fīca, from Latin ficus.


blanquette

Borrowed from Provençal blanqueto, a diminutive of blanc (“white”), derived, through early Medieval Latin blancus, from Frankish *blank (“gleaming, white, blinding”), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“white, bright, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”). Equivalent to blanc (“white”) + -ette (feminine diminutive suffix). Doublet of blanchette.

af

(countable or uncountable) sparkling white wine from Languedoc made from white grapes of the "mauzac" variety

(countable or uncountable) blanquette (white meat stew which is not browned)


dressage

→ English: dressage


toque

Inherited from Middle French toque, tocque (“toque", also "a type of hairstyle”), in some senses from Spanish toca (“headdress”) and in other senses from Italian tocca, from Lombard toh, from Lombardic *tuoh, from Proto-West Germanic *dōk (“cloth”).


tisane

From Latin tisana, ptisana, from Ancient Greek πτισάνη (ptisánē, “peeled barley, barley gruel”), related to πτίσσειν (ptíssein, “to peel”).

der

(colloquial, dated) beating, pounding, thrashing


framboise

Haitian Creole: franbwaz

Mauritian Creole: frambwaz

Seychellois Creole: frambwaz

desc

فْرَامْبْوَاز

→ Arabic: فْرَامْبْوَاز (frāmbwāz)

→ Arabic: فْرَامْبْوَاز (frāmbwāz)

→ Armenian: ֆրամպուազ (frampuaz)

→ Dutch: framboos

Afrikaans: framboos

Indonesian: frambos

→ English: framboise

→ Greek: φραμπουάζ (frampouáz)

→ Neapolitan: frambuasso

→ New Latin: frambēsia

→ Portuguese: framboesa

→ Spanish: frambuesa

→ Turkish: frambuaz

→ Chinese: 覆盆子 (fùpénzǐ)

→ Korean: 복분자 (bokbunja)

Inherited from Middle French and Old French framboise (“raspberry”), from Frankish *brāmabasi (whence Dutch braambes), variant of Proto-West Germanic *brāmabaʀi (whence German Brombeere), all "blackberry, bramble". The French f- is due to dissimilation and influence by unrelated fraise (“strawberry”).

Ces framboises sont délicieuses.


caracole

Borrowed from Spanish caracol, of unclear origin.


maïs

Borrowed from Spanish maíz, from Taíno mahís.

Est-ce que t’aimes bien manger du maïs?


hippodrome

→ Turkish: hipodrom

Learned borrowing from Latin hippodromos, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἱππόδρομος (hippódromos), from ἵππος (híppos, “horse”) + δρόμος (drómos, “course”). By surface analysis, hippo- + -drome.

lbor

hippodrome, racecourse, circuit for equestrian sport


gourde

Inherited from Old French coorde, cohourde, with later voicing of initial c-, from Latin cucurbita. Doublet of courge (from the form cohourge). Compare English gourd.

(by extension) water bottle; flask; canteen (water bottle used by soldiers, camper etc.)


avoine

From Old French aveine, from Latin avēna (“oats”).


noix

Inherited from Old French nois, from Latin nux.


étrier

→ English: étrier

→ Romanian: etrier

Inherited from Middle French estrier, from Old French estrief, estreu (“a ring hanging on each side of the saddle supporting a rider's foot”), from Frankish *streup (“buckle, stirrup”), perhaps for Frankish *stigareip (“stirrup”). Compare Old High German stegareif (“stirrup”), Middle Dutch stegerep (“stirrup”), Old English stīrāp, stiġrāp (“stirrup”), Old Norse stigreip (“stirrup”). See also étrivière. More at stirrup.


carvi

Inherited from Old French carvi, borrowed from Medieval Latin carvi, from Arabic كَرَاوِيَا (karāwiyā). Doublet of chervis.


riz

Haitian Creole: diri

Inherited from Middle French riz, ris, from Old French ris, from Old Italian riso, risi, from Byzantine Greek ὄρυζα (óruza), ὄρυζον (óruzon). The spelling in -z after the Greek and Latin oryza, adopted in order to distinguish from ris (several senses).


persil

fr-noun

persil m (countable and uncountable, plural persils)

Inherited from Old French persil, peresil, perresil, inherited from Latin petroselīnum (possibly through a Vulgar Latin *petrosīnu, compare Sicilian pitrusinu and the Old French variant persin, later with the suffix -il; or through Early Medieval Latin petrosilio), itself from Ancient Greek πετροσέλῑνον (petrosélīnon), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone”) + σέλῑνον (sélīnon, “celery”).

der

πετροσέλῑνον


concombre

From Latin cucumerem, possibly through an Old Occitan intermediate cogombre or cocombre. Compare Occitan and Catalan cogombre.


tabac

→ Dutch: tabak

→ German: Tabak

→ Irish: tobac

→ Romanian: tabac

→ Russian: таба́к (tabák)

→ Yiddish: טאַבאַק (tabak)

des plantations de tabac

(uncountable, botany) tobacco (any plant of the genus Nicotiana)

du tabac blond

Pour la pipe, quels sont tes tabacs préférés ?

tobacco (leaves of certain varieties of the plant cultivated and harvested)

J’ai pris une résolution : demain, j’arrête le tabac.

I have made a decision: tomorrow I'm quitting smoking.

(uncountable, with le) smoking, nicotine addiction

Il s’engouffra dans un tabac et en sortit avec un briquet.

He rushed into a tobacconist's and came out with a lighter.

tobacconist (shop where tobacco is sold)

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.


tabac

Voyez quel air martial respire ce vénérable membre de la Garde nationale! Avec son habit tabac, son sabre et sa giberne en bandoulière, son fusil sur l’épaule […] il va affronter les ennemis […] de la tranquillité publique.

1836, Honoré de Balzac, Œuvres diverses, volume 1:

See what martial air this venerable member of the National Guard breathes! With his tobacco-coloured coat, his sword and his pouch on a bandolier, his gun on his shoulder […] he will face the enemies […] of public peace.


blé

Inherited from Middle French blé, from Old French blet, from Early Medieval Latin bladum.


orge

Inherited from Old French, from Latin hordeum, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰr̥sdeyom (“bristly”).


vider les arçons

(equestrianism) to dismount (to leave the saddle)


nèfle

From Vulgar Latin *nespirum, from Latin mespilum, from Ancient Greek.


assiette

→ English: assiette, ashet

→ German: Assiette

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: asjett

→ Piedmontese: assieta

→ Romanian: asietă

→ Swedish: assiett

→ Finnish: asetti

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *assedita, past participle of *assedere, from Latin assidēre.


anis

→ Galician: anís

→ Portuguese: anis

→ Spanish: anís

Inherited from Old French anis, from Latin anīsum, from Ancient Greek ἄνισον (ánison).


carotte

Seychellois Creole: karot

Mauritian Creole: karot

→ Catalan: carrota

→ English: carotte

→ German: Karotte

→ Vietnamese: cà rốt

Borrowed from Latin carōta, from Ancient Greek κᾰρωτόν (kărōtón).


poireau

Haitian Creole: powo

From the form porreau (probably influenced by poire), from a diminutive of the Old French por (cf. poiree, poree, poret), from Latin porrum. Compare Norman pouothé and Walloon porea.

Allium ampeloprasum
Allium ampeloprasum#Translingual

Allium porrum
Allium porrum#Translingual

leek (Allium ampeloprasum, syn. Allium porrum)


cote

Inherited from Middle French quote, quotte, borrowed from Late Latin quota, from Latin quotus. Doublet of quota, an unadapted borrowing.


cantaloup

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cabriole

cabrioles (plural)
capriole (alternative)

→ English: capriole

→ Portuguese: cabriola

Borrowed from Italian capriola, initially as capriole, with a final -e to fit French norms.


sorbe

Borrowed from Old Occitan sorba, from Vulgar Latin *sorba, feminine singular formed from the plural of Latin sorbum.


prunelle

tenir à quelque chose comme à la prunelle de ses yeux


fenouil

Inherited from Old French fenoil, from Vulgar Latin *fenuclum, syncopated form of Late Latin fēnuculum, a diminutive of Latin fēnum.


lavande

→ Romanian: lavandă

From Middle French lavande (ca. 1300), ultimately from Medieval Latin lavendula. The French form is said to derive from Italian lavanda, though the latter is attested significantly later. Alternatively it may be an independent dissimilation.


panais

Haitian Creole: pane

Inherited from Old French pasnaie, from Latin pastinaca. Doublet of pastenague.


betterave

desc

→ Spanish: beterraga, betarraga, betabel, beterava


cerisier

From cerise + -ier. Compare also Medieval Latin ceresarius.


chou de Bruxelles

fr-noun

chou de Bruxelles m (plural choux de Bruxelles)

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potiron

Uncertain; perhaps of Semitic origin, such as Hebrew פִּטְרִיָּה (pitriyá, “mushroom”), Classical Syriac ܦܛܘܪܬܐ (peṭṭorta), Arabic فُطْر (fuṭr, “mushroom”). Or, related to Old French bot (“toad”), recalling the shape of a big mushroom. Or, from Middle French poistron, from Late Latin posteriōnem, from Latin posterus (“following, next”).


laitue

Inherited from Old French laitue, from Latin lactūca.


haricot

→ Sango: ariköo

In the sense 'stew', from Middle French haricot, a deverbal derivation of Old French harigoter (“to shred, slice up, slice into pieces”), from Frankish *hariōn (“to ruin, lay waste, ravage, plunder, destroy”), from Proto-Germanic *harjōną (“to plunder, lay waste, harry”). Cognate with Middle High German verheeren (“to harry”). More at harry.
In the sense 'bean', etymology uncertain. Influenced in form by the 'stew' word, if not originally identical to it; in that case possibly from Mexican Spanish ayacotli, ayacote, or possibly from Calicut.


haricot rouge

fr-noun

haricot rouge m (plural haricots rouges)


mangouste

→ Dutch: mangoeste

desctree

→ Russian: мангу́ст (mangúst), мангу́ста (mangústa)
→ Kazakh: мангуст (mañust)

→ Spanish: mangosta
→ Catalan: mangosta

Borrowed from Portuguese mangusto, from Marathi मुंगूस (muṅgūs).


vigne

Inherited from Middle French vigne, from Old French vigne, from Vulgar Latin vinia, from Latin vīnea (“vines in a vineyard”), from vīneus (“related to wine”), derived from vīnum (“wine”), from Proto-Italic *wīnom, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom (“vine, wine”).


pomme d'amour

pomme d’ amour (canonical feminine)
pommes d’amour (plural)

→ English: love apple (calque)

Literally, “love apple”, referring for sense 2 to the supposed aphrodisiac qualities of tomato seeds. This origin is disputed, and it also suspected to be a corruption of Spanish poma de moros (literally “fruit of Moors”), which may also be the basis of the Italian pomo d'oro and the Sicilian puma d'amuri.


sauge

Inherited from Old French sauge, from Latin salvia.

Salvia officinalis
Salvia officinalis#Translingual

Delachaux et Niestlé
w:fr:Delachaux et Niestlé

(Réunion) Synonym of sauge écarlate (“blood sage”) (Salvia coccinea Buc'hoz ex Etl.)


estragon

→ Swedish: dragon

→ Finnish: rakuuna

Metathesized from estargon, from targon, borrowed from Medieval Latin tarcon, altarcon, from Arabic طَرْخُون (ṭarḵūn), ultimately from Ancient Greek δρακόντιον (drakóntion), from δράκων (drákōn).

Arabic طَرْخُون (ṭarḵūn)


radis

→ Wolof: radi

Borrowed from Italian radice, from Latin rādīx (“root”).


navet

From Old French nef (“turnip”) + -et, from Latin nāpus.

Au secours, seigneurs, au secours ! venez à l’aide de mon seigneur, qui est engagé dans la plus formidable et la plus sanglante bataille que mes yeux aient jamais vue. Vive Dieu ! il a porté un tel revers au géant ennemi de madame la princesse Micomicona, qu’il lui a tranché la tête à rasibus des épaules, comme si c’eût été un navet.

1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XXXV, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et Cⁱᵉ, éditeurs, […], →OCLC:

Help, good sirs, help! Come to the help of my master, who is engaged in the most formidable and the most bloody battle that my eyes have ever seen. By God! He delivered such a backhand to the giant enemy of the lady princess of Micomicona that he sliced off his head cleanly from the shoulders, as if it had been a turnip.

Brassica rapa
Brassica rapa#Translingual


groseille

From Middle Dutch kroesels (“(curled) berries”), from kruisbes, kroes (“crispy, curly”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer-, related to German kraus (“curly”). Compare Walloon gurzale.


berle

→ German: Berle

Inherited from Latin berula, from Gaulish berulā, a diminutive form of beru.


chou-fleur

chou (“cabbage”) + fleur (“flower”). Compare Italian cavolfiore, English cauliflower.


citrouille

Diminutive of Old French citre, from Latin citrus. Compare Italian cetriolo.


coriandre

→ Romanian: coriandru

Inherited from Old French coriandre, borrowed from Latin coriandrum, from Ancient Greek κορίαννον (koríannon), κορίανδρον (koríandron).

(uncountable) coriander (the herb and spice)


ciboulette

→ Catalan: cibulet

Diminutive of ciboule, with the suffix -ette.


thym

Comment conserver le thym ? Le thym frais peut être stocké au réfrigérateur enveloppé dans du papier journal ou papier kraft, jamais dans un sac plastique. Humidifié, il peut être mis dans de pots en verre teinté foncé, et pourra ainsi être conservé plusieurs mois loin de la lumière.

2013, Henri Joyeux, Guillaume Bouguet, Le thym et le chirurgien:

How do you preserve thyme? Fresh thyme can be stored in the refrigerator wrapped in newspaper or brown paper, never in a plastic bag. It can also be put into dark-coloured glass jars with some water, and kept for several months away from light.


corbeau

fr-noun

corbeau m (plural corbeaux, feminine corbelle)

→ English: corbeau

Inherited from Middle French corbeau m, from Old French corbel m, itself either a diminutive of corp m (“raven”), or from a Late Latin corbellus, corvellus m, from Latin corvus m (Vulgar Latin variant *corbus m).

(historical) corvus (grappling hook used by the Romans in naval warfare)


pastèque

Borrowed from Portuguese pateca, from Arabic بَطِّيخَة (baṭṭīḵa, “melon, watermelon”).


romarin

Salvia rosmarinus
Salvia rosmarinus#Translingual

Rosmarinus officinalis
Rosmarinus officinalis#Translingual

rosemary (Salvia rosmarinus, syn. Rosmarinus officinalis)


œuf à la coque

fr-noun

œuf à la coque m (plural œufs à la coque)


mangue

a carnivorous mammal related to the mongoose


topinambour

→ German: Topinambur

→ Italian: topinambur

→ Portuguese: tupinambor, tupinambo

From earlier plural forms topinambaux or topinambaulx, from Old Tupi tupinambá, the name of a South American tribe where the plant was thought to have originated, 1650s.

Helianthus tuberosus
Helianthus tuberosus#Translingual

Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus)


brocoli

Borrowed from Italian broccoli, plural of broccolo, diminutive of brocco (“shoot, sprout”), from Latin broccus, of Gaulish origin.


amande

Inherited from Old French almande, from Vulgar Latin *amend(u)la, from Latin amygdala, from Ancient Greek ἀμυγδάλη (amugdálē). Doublet of amygdale and mandorle.


échalote

échalotes (plural)
échalotte (alternative)

→ English: shallot

→ German: Schalotte
→ Romanian: șalotă

→ Portuguese: chalota

→ Spanish: chalote, chalota

Inherited from Middle French eschalote, alteration of Old French eschaloigne, from Classical Latin ascalonia (cēpa) (literally “onion of Ascalon”). Cf. also Medieval Latin scalongia, escalonia, modeled after the Old French.

inh

Allium cepa var. aggregatum
Allium cepa var. aggregatum


cerfeuil

From Latin chaerephyllum or caerefolium.


aneth

Borrowed from Latin anēthum, from Ancient Greek ἄνηθον (ánēthon).


noix de cajou

Holonym: anacarde

Comeronym: pomme de cajou

cashew nut (the seed of the cashew tree)


clémentine

→ English: clementine

→ German: Klementine

From Clément + -ine, named after French missionary Clément Rodier (1839–1904).


mûre

From an alteration of Old French meure, from Vulgar Latin *mōra, from Latin mōrum, from Ancient Greek μόρον (móron).

(heraldry) murrey (dark red color as used in heraldry)


châtaigne

Inherited from Old French chastaigne, from Latin castanea, from Ancient Greek κᾰ́στᾰνᾰ (kắstănă). Doublet of castagne.


carmagnole

→ Albanian: karamanjollë (“guillotine”)

→ English: carmagnole

desc

→ Greek: καρμανιόλα (karmanióla, “guillotine”)

Named after Carmagnole, the northwestern Italian town of Carmagnola.

(historical, clothing) carmagnole (short jacket fashionable during the French Revolution)


éperon

Inherited from Old French esperon (also Middle French), from Frankish *spurō (compare German Sporn).

(equestrianism) spur (for riding or on a cockerel)


haie

→ English: hey

Inherited from Middle French haye, from Old French haie, from Medieval Latin haga, from Frankish *haggju (whence English hedge) and/or related *hagō (whence English haw). Doublet of age and quai.


piaffer

piaffer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
piaffant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
piaffé (participle past)
piaffe (first-person indicative present singular)
piaffes (indicative present second-person singular)
piaffe (indicative present singular third-person)
piaffons (first-person indicative plural present)
piaffez (indicative plural present second-person)
piaffent (indicative plural present third-person)
piaffais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
piaffais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
piaffait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
piaffions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
piaffiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
piaffaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
piaffai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
piaffas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
piaffa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
piaffâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
piaffâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
piaffèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
piafferai (first-person future indicative singular)
piafferas (future indicative second-person singular)
piaffera (future indicative singular third-person)
piafferons (first-person future indicative plural)
piafferez (future indicative plural second-person)
piafferont (future indicative plural third-person)
piafferais (conditional first-person singular)
piafferais (conditional second-person singular)
piafferait (conditional singular third-person)
piafferions (conditional first-person plural)
piafferiez (conditional plural second-person)
piafferaient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
piaffe (first-person present singular subjunctive)
piaffes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
piaffe (present singular subjunctive third-person)
piaffions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
piaffiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
piaffent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
piaffasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
piaffasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
piaffât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
piaffassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
piaffassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
piaffassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
piaffe (imperative second-person singular)
piaffons (first-person imperative plural)
piaffez (imperative plural second-person)

→ Italian: piaffare


carambole

→ Romanian: carambol

→ Turkish: karambol

Il a raté son coup de peu ; il est passé à deux millimètres de la carambole.

He just missed the shot; he missed the red ball by two millimeters.


fève

Inherited from Old French feve, from Latin faba, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- (“bean”). Cognate with Spanish haba, Italian fava.


arbouse

Borrowed from Occitan arboça, from arboç, from Latin arbuteus (“of the strawberry tree”), from arbutus (“strawberry tree”).

der

(botany) arbutus berry (fruit of the strawberry tree)


groseille à maquereau

fr-noun

groseille à maquereau f (plural groseilles à maquereau)


ronce

L’amour au hasard d’un regard / T’a effacée de ma mémoire / Du jardin que j’ai saccagé, / Dont les herbes se sont couchées, / Il ne reste rien, je le crains, / Que ronces mortes sans parfum ?

1963, “Amour sans amour”, performed by Serge Gainsbourg:

Rubus fruticosus
Rubus fruticosus#Translingual


brème

→ Portuguese: brema

Inherited from Old French braisme, from Frankish *brahsima (compare Dutch brasem), from West Germanic *brahsmō, from Proto-Germanic *brahsmǭ, *brahsinō, *brahsmaz (“bream”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *brehwanaz (“shining, glittery, sparkly”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerek- (“to shine”) (see English braid (verb)).

der

(ichthyology) bream (fish of the genus Abramis)


crapaudine

Several types of precious stones
toadstone


bleuet

(North America) North American blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium)


coing

Inherited from Old French cooing, from Latin cotōneum, ultimately from Ancient Greek κυδώνιον (kudṓnion).

Cydonia oblonga
Cydonia oblonga#Translingual

quince (pear-shaped fruit of a small tree of the rose family) (Cydonia oblonga)


angélique

Borrowed from Latin angelicus, from angelus (“angel”).


reine-claude

→ German: Reneklode, Ringlotte

→ Swedish: renklo

Earlier prune de la Reine Claude, named after Queen Claude (1499–1524).

greengage (plum with greenish-yellow flesh and skin)


panser

panser (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
pansant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
pansé (participle past)
panse (first-person indicative present singular)
panses (indicative present second-person singular)
panse (indicative present singular third-person)
pansons (first-person indicative plural present)
pansez (indicative plural present second-person)
pansent (indicative plural present third-person)
pansais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
pansais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
pansait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
pansions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
pansiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
pansaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
pansai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
pansas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
pansa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
pansâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
pansâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
pansèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
panserai (first-person future indicative singular)
panseras (future indicative second-person singular)
pansera (future indicative singular third-person)
panserons (first-person future indicative plural)
panserez (future indicative plural second-person)
panseront (future indicative plural third-person)
panserais (conditional first-person singular)
panserais (conditional second-person singular)
panserait (conditional singular third-person)
panserions (conditional first-person plural)
panseriez (conditional plural second-person)
panseraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
panse (first-person present singular subjunctive)
panses (present second-person singular subjunctive)
panse (present singular subjunctive third-person)
pansions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
pansiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
pansent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
pansasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
pansasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
pansât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
pansassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
pansassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
pansassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
panse (imperative second-person singular)
pansons (first-person imperative plural)
pansez (imperative plural second-person)


seigle

Inherited from Middle French seigle, from Old French soigle, segle, seygle, from Latin sēcale. Possibly through the intermediate of Old Occitan segle (at least concerning this form; cf. regional variants seille, soile, Walloon swele, Old French soile, which were inherited).


chou-rave

choux-raves (plural)
chou rave (alternative)

→ Vietnamese: su hào


pistache

→ Dutch: pistache

→ Finnish: pistaasi

→ Irish: piostáis

→ Luxembourgish: Pistasch

→ Norwegian Bokmål: pistasj

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: pistasj

→ Portuguese: pistache

desctree

→ Spanish: pistacho, pistache
→ Tagalog: pistatso

→ Swedish: pistasch

Borrowed from Venetan pistacio, from Latin pistacium, from Ancient Greek πιστάκιον (pistákion).


chevaucher

chevaucher (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
chevauchant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
chevauché (participle past)
chevauche (first-person indicative present singular)
chevauches (indicative present second-person singular)
chevauche (indicative present singular third-person)
chevauchons (first-person indicative plural present)
chevauchez (indicative plural present second-person)
chevauchent (indicative plural present third-person)
chevauchais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
chevauchais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
chevauchait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
chevauchions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
chevauchiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
chevauchaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
chevauchai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
chevauchas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
chevaucha (historic indicative past singular third-person)
chevauchâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
chevauchâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
chevauchèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
chevaucherai (first-person future indicative singular)
chevaucheras (future indicative second-person singular)
chevauchera (future indicative singular third-person)
chevaucherons (first-person future indicative plural)
chevaucherez (future indicative plural second-person)
chevaucheront (future indicative plural third-person)
chevaucherais (conditional first-person singular)
chevaucherais (conditional second-person singular)
chevaucherait (conditional singular third-person)
chevaucherions (conditional first-person plural)
chevaucheriez (conditional plural second-person)
chevaucheraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
chevauche (first-person present singular subjunctive)
chevauches (present second-person singular subjunctive)
chevauche (present singular subjunctive third-person)
chevauchions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
chevauchiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
chevauchent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
chevauchasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
chevauchasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
chevauchât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
chevauchassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
chevauchassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
chevauchassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
chevauche (imperative second-person singular)
chevauchons (first-person imperative plural)
chevauchez (imperative plural second-person)

Inherited from Middle French chevauchier, from Old French chevauchier, from Late Latin caballicāre, from Latin caballus (“nag, jade”).

inh+

to ride on horseback, usually for the purpose of raiding and pillaging


épeautre

Inherited from Middle French, from Old French espiautre, espelte (“spelt, corn”), from Late Latin spelta (“spelt”).

Triticum aestivum subsp. spelta#Translingual

Triticum spelta
Triticum spelta#Translingual

spelt (Triticum aestivum subsp. spelta or Triticum spelta)


viognier

viogniers (plural)
vionnier (alternative)

Unknown. Possibly named after the French city of Vienne, where it is grown, or from the Roman pronunciation of Latin via Gehennae (“road to Hell”).


hippique

From Ancient Greek ἱππικός (hippikós), compare ἵππος (híppos) and -ique.


mille-feuille

mille-feuilles (plural)
millefeuille (alternative)

→ Catalan: milfulls (calque)

→ English: mille-feuille

From mille (“a thousand”) + feuille (“leaf, layer”).


bibace

Borrowed from Chinese 枇杷 (pípá), possibly through Macanese biba.


noix du Brésil

fr-noun

noix du Brésil f (plural noix du Brésil)

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fer à cheval

horseshoe bat (the monotypic family Rhinolophidae)

horseshoe vetch (Hippocrepis gen. and spp.)


goyave

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myrtille

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin myrtillus.


ciboule

Inherited from Middle French ciboule, from Old French cibole, borrowed from Occitan cibola, itself from Late Latin cēpulla~caepulla, diminutive of Latin cēpa~caepa (“onion”), whence the inherited French cive (“chive”).

Allium fistulosum
Allium fistulosum#Translingual

scallion, spring onion (Allium fistulosum)


poivron

Capsicum annuum
Capsicum annuum#Translingual

sweet pepper, bell pepper (Capsicum annuum)


céleri

→ Czech: celer

→ Dutch: selderij (see there for further descendants)

→ English: celery

→ Korean: 셀러리 (selleori)

→ Welsh: seleri

→ Finnish: selleri

→ German: Sellerie
→ Estonian: seller

→ Hungarian: zeller

→ Icelandic: sellerí

→ Irish: soilire

→ Japanese: セロリ (serori)

→ Macedonian: целер (celer)

→ Norman: céléri

→ Norwegian: selleri

→ Polish: seler

→ Scottish Gaelic: soilire

→ Serbo-Croatian: celer / целер

→ Swedish: selleri

→ Vilamovian: seler

→ West Flemish: selder

→ Yiddish: סעלעריע (selerye)

Borrowed from Lombard selleri, plural form of seller, from Late Latin selīnon, from Ancient Greek σέλινον (sélinon, “celery”).


noix de macadamia

fr-noun

noix de macadamia m (plural noix de macadamia)

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tireur

tireur m (plural tireurs, feminine tireuse)


akène

akènes (plural)
achaine (alternative)
achène (alternative)

Borrowed from New Latin achena, from Ancient Greek privative ἀ- (a-) + χαίνω (khaínō, “to gape”).


pignon

From Old Occitan pinhon, from pinha (“pine-cone”).


équin

fr-adj

équin (feminine équine, masculine plural équins, feminine plural équines)

équine (feminine)
équins (masculine plural)
équines (feminine plural)

Learned borrowing from Latin equīnus (“horse”).


merise

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Inherited from Middle French *amerise, from amer (“sour, bitter”), influenced by cerise.


livèche

Inherited from Old French luvesche, livesche, from Vulgar Latin *levistica, from Latin levisticum, from ligusticus.


papaye

→ Sango: papâi, papâyi


marjolaine

From Old French majorane, from Medieval Latin maiorana.


épinard

Probably borrowed from Medieval Latin spīnarchia, ultimately from Arabic إِسْفَانَاخ (ʔisfānāḵ), from Persian اسپناخ (espanâx).

uder

Arabic إِسْفَانَاخ (ʔisfānāḵ)

Spinacia oleracea
Spinacia oleracea#Translingual


tomatier

fr-adj

tomatier (feminine tomatière, masculine plural tomatiers, feminine plural tomatières)

tomatière (feminine)
tomatiers (masculine plural)
tomatières (feminine plural)


tomatier

fr-noun

tomatier m (plural tomatiers, feminine tomatière)


amazone

(equestrianism) sidesaddle (riding technique)


scarole

scaroles (plural)
escarole (alternative)

→ English: escarole

desc

→ German: Escarol, Eskarol, Escariol, Eskariol

Borrowed from Italian scarola, from Latin escāriola.


fruit de la passion

fr-noun

fruit de la passion m (plural fruits de la passion)

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raisin de Corinthe

raisin de Corinthe m (plural raisins de Corinthe)

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currant, Zante currant (small dried grape)


aveline

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noix de Grenoble

noix de Grenoble f (plural noix de Grenoble)

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équitation

Borrowed from Latin equitātiōnem, from equitō (“to ride a horse”).

faire de l'équitation - go horseriding


wampi

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Borrowed from Cantonese 黃皮 /黄皮 (wong⁴ pei⁴⁻², “wampee”, literally “yellow skin”).


açaï

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese açaí.


pallisandre

→ Catalan: palissandre

→ English: pallisander


zérumbet

Borrowed from Medieval Latin zerumbet, zurumbet, zurumbeth, from Arabic زُرُنْبَاد (zurunbād), from Persian زرنباد (zoronbâd).

Zingiber zerumbet
Zingiber zerumbet#Translingual


airelle

A dialectal word (Chamalières éi̭réla, ai̭relo,), diminutive of Provençal aire, from Latin ater (“black”).


sarriette

From a diminutive of Old French sarriee, sadree < Latin satureia.


arracache

arracaches (plural)
arracacha (alternative)

Borrowed from Spanish arracacha, from Quechua raqacha.


azerole

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attelage

→ Spanish: atelaje


cornouille

Inherited from Old French cornolle, derived from Latin cornus with the suffix -ulla. Later influenced phonetically by the derived term cornouiller (“dogwood, cornel shrub”).


bigarreau

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calambac

calambacs (plural)
calamba (alternative)
calambart (alternative)
calambou (alternative)
calambouc (alternative)
calambour (alternative)

English: calambac


laurier-cerise

fr-noun

laurier-cerise m (plural lauriers-cerises)

From laurier (“laurel”) + cerise (“cherry”).


hippisme

From Ancient Greek ἵππος (híppos) + -isme.


douce-amère

Solanum dulcamara
Solanum dulcamara#Translingual

bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara)


marsanne

a variety of white grape used to make ermitage wine


mélisse

Melissa officinalis
Melissa officinalis#Translingual


picardan

a variety of white grape originally from Provence


picpoul

a variety of white grape originally from the Languedoc


roussanne

a variety of white grape, from the valley of the Rhône, used to make white wine


aurone

Borrowed from Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin abrotonum. Doublet of abrotone.


visnage

Visnaga daucoides
Visnaga daucoides#Translingual

toothpickweed (Ammi visnaga, syn. Visnaga daucoides)


bigarade

→ English: bigarade

From Occitan or Provençal bigarrada, bigarrat, related to the origin of bigarrer (“to variegate”).

Citrus aurantium
Citrus aurantium#Translingual

bitter orange (fruit of Citrus aurantium)


corme

From Latin curmus (“beer”) from Gaulish curmi (“beer”); influenced by Latin cornum.


ive

Ajuga chamaepitys
Ajuga chamaepitys#Translingual

Teucrium chamaepitys
Teucrium chamaepitys

Synonym of bugle petit-pin (“yellow bugle”) (Ajuga chamaepitys)


Chaouch

Le Chaouch est répandu sur toutes les côtes de la Méditerranée, depuis l’Algérie et l’Égypte jusqu’à l’Adriatique, mais il est le plus particulièrement cultivé en Turquie d’Europe, en Turquie d’Asie, en Grèce et en Crimée.

1901, Étienne Salomon, R. Salomon, “Chaouch”, in Pierre Viala, editor, Ampélographie, Traité général de viticulture, volume 2, Paris: Masson et cie, →OCLC, page 200:

(agriculture) Chaouch (“a cultivar of vinifera grape”)


colombard

Comme ce vin, par exemple, issu de trois cépages typiques de la région, colombard, sauvignon et gros manseng.

2015 September 16, “Notre sélection de vins du Sud-Ouest 3,40 à 8,99 euros”, in Le Monde:

a white grape variety from Charentes; a wine made from these grapes


chervis

Inherited from Middle French chervis, eschervis, from late Old French, from Andalusian Arabic / Arabic كَرَاوِيَا (karāwiyā, “caraway”). Doublet of carvi.


aubin

Inherited from Middle French aubin, hobin, hobi, from Old French hobi, *haubi, haubby, hobin (“a nag, hobby”), from Old French hober, ober (“to stir, move”), from Old Dutch hobben (“to toss, move up and down”); or from North Germanic origin related to Danish hoppe (“a mare”), Old Swedish hoppa (“a young mare”), North Frisian hoppe (“horse”); both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *huppōną (“to hop”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewb- (“to bend; a bend, joint”). More at hobby, hop, hobble.


potimarron

Blend of potiron (“winter squash”) + marron (“chestnut”)

blend

Cucurbita maxima
Cucurbita maxima#Translingual

red kuri squash (cultivar of species Cucurbita maxima)


calament

Inherited from Old French calament~calamente, borrowed from Medieval Latin calamentum, from Latin calaminthe, from Ancient Greek καλαμίνθη (kalamínthē, “an odoriferous plant”), of uncertain origin (either by haplology from *καλαμο-μίνθη (*kalamo-mínthē) or a loanword, which Beekes considers most likely to be from Pre-Greek). First attested in the twelfth century.

der

calamint (of the genera Acinos or Calamintha)


chenette

Teucrium chamaedrys
Teucrium chamaedrys#Translingual


farigoule

Borrowed from Occitan ferigoulo, farigoulo, from Old Occitan farigola, from Vulgar Latin *fericula < ferus. OR from Medieval Latin *ferricula < fer, influenced by auricula, lenticula, sanicula as well as ferraria.

(regional) Synonym of thym (aromatic herb used in cooking)


germandrée

From Latin chamaedrys, from Ancient Greek χαμαίδρῡς (khamaídrūs, “ground oak”), from χαμαί (khamaí, “on the ground”) + δρῦς (drûs, “oak”).


éleusine

any of several grasses in the genus Eleusine, particularly the cereal finger millet


safou

LL-Q150 (fra)-Mathieu Denel WMFr-safou.wav


longane

LL-Q150 (fra)-Mathieu Denel WMFr-longane.wav

Borrowed from Cantonese 龍眼／龙眼 (lung4 ngaan5).


piment de Cayenne

fr-noun

piment de Cayenne m (plural piments de Cayenne)

Capsicum frutescens
Capsicum frutescens#Translingual


consoude

Inherited from Old French consoude, consoulde, consolde, from Latin cōnsolida.


cataire

cataires (plural)
chataire (alternative)

Nepeta cataria
Nepeta cataria#Translingual


apiacée

umbellifer (plant of the family Apiaceae)


œuf miroir

œufs miroir (plural)
œuf au miroir (alternative)


œuf sur le plat

œuf sur le plat m (plural œufs sur le plat)

LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-œuf sur le plat.wav


piment enragé

piment enragé m (plural piments enragés)


sébeste

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin sebesten, from Arabic سِبِسْتَان (sibistān), from Persian سگپستان (sag-pestân, from سگ (sag, “dog”) + پستان (pestân, “teat”), literally “dog teat”).


pouliot

Mentha pulegium
Mentha pulegium#Translingual


atoca

LL-Q150 (fra)-Mathieu Denel WMFr-atoca.wav

Derived from the Iroquoian word for the fruit.


manoque

époularder

to pull apart the tobacco leaves from the roll to cleanse them

manoquage

manoquer (“to put the tobacco into rolls”)


chou rouge

Coordinate term: chou vert


chou chinois

fr-noun

chou chinois m (usually uncountable, plural choux chinois)

Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis
Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis

bok choy (Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis)

Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis
Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis

napa cabbage (Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis)


créquier

créquiers (plural)
crecquier (alternative)
criquier (alternative)

From Middle French crequier, from Old French crekere, equivalent to crèque + -ier.

Prunus spinosa
Prunus spinosa#Translingual

bullace tree (Prunus domestica ssp. insititia)

hence, Prunus × fruticans, a natural hybrid of the two aforementioned difficult to distinguish from the blackthorn

(heraldry) a créquier, a stylized tree or thornbush resembling a chandelier


crèque

Inherited from Old French creke, creque, from Middle Dutch crieke, of unknown origin, see German Krieche for more.

unknown

unknown

fruit of any tree that is described under créquier


amélanche

From Southeastern Occitan amelanca, rebracketing with the article from melanco, containing an Ancient Ligurian suffix attached to a word for black cognate to Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas, “black”) and Latvian melns (“black”), calling the fruits by their colour.

fruit of any tree that is described under amélanchier (serviceberry).


groseille rouge

fr-noun

groseille rouge f (plural groseilles rouges)


poirée

Inherited from Old French poiree, from a variant of which also French poireau (“leek”).


cheval de course

cheval de course m (plural chevaux de course)


belosse

sloe; fruit of blackthorn (Prunus spinosa)


panicaut de Bourgat

panicaut de Bourgat m (plural panicauts de Bourgat)

Calque from New Latin Eryngium bourgatii.

Mediterranean sea holly (Eryngium bourgatii Gouan)


chardon bleu des Pyrénées

chardon bleu des Pyrénées m (plural chardons bleus des Pyrénées)


ail des ours

ail des ours m (plural ails des ours or aulx des ours)

ails des ours (plural)
aulx des ours (plural)

Calque of Latin Allium ursinum (literally “bear garlic”).

calque

Allium ursinum
Allium ursinum#Translingual


ail sauvage

ramsons (Allium ursinum, a wild relative of chives)


crapaudine à feuilles d'hysope

fr-noun

crapaudine à feuilles d’hysope f (plural crapaudine à feuilles d’hysope)

crapaudine à feuilles d’hysope (canonical feminine)
crapaudine à feuilles d’hysope (plural)

hyssop-leaved mountain ironwort
hyssop-leaved mountain ironwort

hyssop-leaved mountain ironwort (Sideritis hyssopifolia)


brunelle à feuilles hastées

brunelle à feuilles hastées f (plural brunelles à feuilles hastées)

hyssop-leaved mountain ironwort (Prunella hastifolia Brot.)


au grand galop

LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-au grand galop.wav


arnica des montagnes

arnica des montagnes m (plural arnicas des montagnes)

LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-arnica des montagnes.wav

Arnica montana
Arnica montana#Translingual


fenouil de montagne

fenouil de montagne m (plural fenouils de montagne)

Meum athamanticum
Meum athamanticum#Translingual

(botany) baldmoney (Meum athamanticum Jacq.)


cerfeuil des Alpes

cerfeuil des Alpes m (plural cerfeuils des Alpes)


angélique des Pyrénées

angélique des Pyrénées f (plural angéliques des Pyrénées)


sélin des Pyrénées

sélin des Pyrénées m (plural sélins des Pyrénées)


antennaire dioïque

antennaire dioïque f (plural antennaires dioïques)

Calque of translingual Antennaria dioica.

calque

Antennaria dioica
Antennaria dioica#Translingual

(botany) mountain cudweed (Antennaria dioica) (L.) Gaertn.


pied de chat dioïque

fr-noun

pied de chat dioïque f (plural pieds de chats dioïques)


grande éclaire

grande éclaire f (plural grandes éclaires)

Chelidonium majus
Chelidonium majus#Translingual

(botany) greater celandine (Chelidonium majus)


grande chélidoine

grande chélidoine f (plural grandes chélidoines)


chrysanthème comestible

chrysanthème comestible m (plural chrysanthèmes comestibles)

garland chrysanthemum
garland chrysanthemum

Glebionis coronaria
Glebionis coronaria#Translingual

(botany) garland chrysanthemum, chrysanthemum greens, edible chrysanthemum, crowndaisy chrysanthemum (Glebionis coronaria (L.) Cass.)


chrysanthème des jardins

chrysanthème des jardins m (plural chrysanthèmes des jardins)

(botany) Garland chrysanthemum, chrysanthemum greens, edible chrysanthemum, crowndaisy chrysanthemum (Glebionis coronaria (L.) Cass.)


anémone hépatique

anémone hépatique f (plural anémones hépatiques)

Calque of translingual Anemone hepatica.


hépatique à trois lobes

hépatique à trois lobes f (plural hépatiques à trois lobes)

Calque of translingual Hepatica triloba Chaix.

common hepatica (Hepatica nobilis Mill.)


rabiole

From a diminutive of Latin rāpum (“turnip”).


prendre le mors aux dents

LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-prendre le mors aux dents.wav

LL-Q150 (fra)-Lyokoï-prendre le mors aux dents.wav

LL-Q150 (fra)-Tsaag Valren-prendre le mors aux dents.wav

Literally, “to take the bit to the teeth”.


encens d'eau

encens d’eau (canonical masculine)
encens d’eau (plural)


pomme de cajou

fr-noun

pomme de cajou f (plural pommes de cajou)

LL-Q150 (fra)-Mecanautes-pomme de cajou.wav

Comeronym: noix de cajou

cashew apple (the fruit of the cashew tree)


estragon du Mexique

estragon du Mexique m (plural estragons du Mexique)

(botany) Mexican tarragon (Tagetes lucida)


haricot d'Espagne

haricot d’Espagne m (plural haricots d’Espagne)

haricot d’ Espagne (canonical masculine)
haricots d’Espagne (plural)

Phaseolus coccineus
Phaseolus coccineus#Translingual


haricot de Lima

haricot de Lima m (plural haricots de Lima)

Phaseolus lunatus
Phaseolus lunatus#Translingual


haricot du Tonkin

haricot du Tonkin m (plural haricots du Tonkin)

(obsolete) Synonym of haricot de Lima (“lima bean”)


haricot de Baria

haricot de Baria m (plural haricots de Baria)


chaudeau

→ Czech: šodó

Inherited from Latin *caldellum, from calidus.


ferré à glace

fr-adj

ferré à glace (feminine ferrée à glace, masculine plural ferrés à glace, feminine plural ferrées à glace)

ferrée à glace (feminine)
ferrés à glace (masculine plural)
ferrées à glace (feminine plural)

(equestrianism, of a horse) equipped with spiked horseshoes so as to be able to walk on ice


œuf au plat

→ Vietnamese: trứng ốp la

LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-œuf au plat.wav


menthe poivrée

peppermint (hybrid herb of the mint family, formed by crossing watermint and spearmint, which has a high menthol content and a sharp flavor and is used in cooking, especially in herb teas and in confections)


chakchouka

fr-noun

chakchouka f (countable and uncountable, plural chakchoukas)

Borrowed from Arabic شَكْشُوكَة (šakšūka).

bor+

shakshuka (dish of eggs simmered in a mixture of vegetables and spices)


févi

Potentially related to Gun fevi (“okra”).


pomme de Goa

Literally, “apple from Goa”, the state in India from which France obtained the fruit.

Mais non ! la fraîche carambole ou la pomme de Goa, stellaire à cinq branches, n’est pas une étoile de mer.

2021, Gil Pen, Vers entortillés et Rimes masquées, Librinova, →ISBN:

Et puis comment ne pas citer la carambole ou pomme de Goa (Averrhoa carambola), ce fruit en forme d’étoile employé dans la décoration de desserts.

2022, Claude Joseph, C'est naturel, ça ne peut pas faire de mal, Editions Ex Aequo, →ISBN:

Averrhoa carambola
Averrhoa carambola#Translingual

(dated, rare) star fruit (Averrhoa carambola)


laitue romaine

fr-noun

laitue romaine f (plural laitues romaines)

desc

→ English: romaine lettuce (partial calque)


sauge blanche

fr-noun

sauge blanche f (plural sauges blanches)


sauge du Texas

sauge du Texas f (plural sauges du Texas)

Delachaux et Niestlé
w:fr:Delachaux et Niestlé

blood sage (Salvia coccinea Buc'hoz ex Etl.)


porto flip

porto flips (plural)
porto-flip (alternative)


briochin

fr-adj

briochin (feminine briochine, masculine plural briochins, feminine plural briochines)

briochine (feminine)
briochins (masculine plural)
briochines (feminine plural)


gattilier

Vitex agnus-castus
Vitex agnus-castus#Translingual


oreille d'ours

fr-noun

oreille d’ours m (plural oreilles d’ours)

oreille d’ ours (canonical masculine)
oreilles d’ours (plural)

primevère auricule
primevère auricule#French

Synonym of primevère auricule (“mountain cowslip”) (Primula auricula (L.)


épiaire laineuse

épiaire laineuse f (plural épiaires laineuses)

épiaires laineuses (plural)
épiaire laineux (alternative)


épiaire de Byzance

épiaire de Byzance f (plural épiaires de Byzance)

Calque of translingual Stachys byzantina.


stachide

fr-noun

stachide f (usually uncountable, plural stachides)


panicaut de mer

panicaut de mer m (plural panicauts de mer)

Eryngium maritimum
Eryngium maritimum#Translingual

Guillaume Eyssartier
w:fr:Guillaume Eyssartier


bugle petit-pin

bugle petit-pin f (plural bugles petit-pins)

Calque of translingual Ajuga chamaepitys.

calque

Ajuga chamaepitys
Ajuga chamaepitys#Translingual


ivette

Synonym of bugle petit-pin (“yellow bugle”) (Ajuga chamaepitys)


yvette

Alternative spelling of ivette (“yellow bugle”) (Ajuga chamaepitys)


panicaut maritime

fr-noun

panicaut maritime m (plural panicauts maritimes)

Calque of translingual Eryngium maritimum.


micocoule

From micocoulier or borrowed from Occitan micocola.

Fruit of the hackberry (tree of the genus Celtis)


sauge clandestine

fr-noun

sauge clandestine f (plural sauges clandestines)

Calque of translingual Salvia clandestina.

calque

(Salvia verbenaca subsp. clandestina (L.) Batt.)


thé d'Aubrac

thé d’ Aubrac (canonical masculine)
thés d’Aubrac (plural)

large-flowered calamint
large-flowered calamint

Clinopodium grandiflorum
Clinopodium grandiflorum

large-flowered calamint (Clinopodium grandiflorum (L.) Kuntze)


ballote faux-dictame

fr-noun

ballote faux-dictame m (plural ballotes faux-dictames)

Calque of translingual Ballota pseudodictamnus.

calque

false dittany (Ballota pseudodictamnus (L.) Benth.)


sauge de Jérusalem

fr-noun

sauge de Jérusalem f (plural sauges de Jérusalem)


phlomis de Turquie

phlomis de Turquie m (plural phlomis de Turquie)

Turkish sage (Phlomis russeliana) (Sims.) Benth.


phlomis de Russell

phlomis de Russell m (plural phlomis de Russell)

Calque of translingual Phlomis russeliana.


sauge de Turquie

fr-noun

sauge de Turquie f (plural sauges de Turquie)


toque blanchâtre

toque blanchâtre f (plural toques blanchâtres)


scutellaire blanchâtre

scutellaire blanchâtre f (plural scutellaires blanchâtres)

Calque of translingual Scutellaria incana.


agastache fenouil

fr-noun

agastache fenouil f (plural agastaches fenouil)

Calque of translingual Agastache foeniculum.

calque

anise hyssop (Agastache foeniculum) (Pursh.) Kuntze


clochette d'Irlande

fr-noun

clochette d’Irlande f (plural clochettes d’Irlande)

clochette d’ Irlande (canonical feminine)
clochettes d’Irlande (plural)


tabac marron

earleaf nightshade (Solanum mauritianum)


bois de joli cœur

bois de joli cœur m (plural bois de joli cœur)

From its traditional use as an aphrodisiac.


joli cœur

jolis cœurs (plural)
joli-cœur (alternative)

bois de joli cœur
bois de joli cœur#French

(Réunion) Synonym of bois de joli cœur (Pittosporum senacia Putt.)


bois de mangue marron

bois de mangue marron m (plural bois de mangue marron)


tisaneur

tisaneur m (plural tisaneurs, feminine tisaneuse)

Borrowed from Réunion Creole French tizanèr. By surface analysis, tisane + -eur.


sauge écarlate

fr-noun

sauge écarlate f (plural sauges écarlates)

(France, Réunion) blood sage (Salvia coccinea Buc'hoz ex Etl.)


plante efferalgan

plante efferalgan f (plural plantes efferalgan)

plante + Efferalgan. So named because the plant is used as a febrifuge.

(Réunion) blue coleus (Coleus neochilus (Schltr.) Codd)


gros thym

(Antilles) Indian borage (Coleus amboinicus)


gros baume

(Réunion) Synonym of gros thym (“Indian borage”) (Coleus amboinicus)


ti baume

ti baumes (plural)
ti-baume (alternative)


grosse menthe

grosse menthe f (plural grosses menthes)

(Antilles) Synonym of gros thym (“Indian borage”) (Coleus amboinicus)


tenir la corde

LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-tenir la corde.wav

(equestrianism) to be in the inside lane, to stay in the inside lane


fruit à pain

LL-Q150 (fra)-Mecanautes-fruit à pain.wav

Artocarpus altilis
Artocarpus altilis#Translingual

breadfruit (the large round fruit of the tree Artocarpus altilis)