cul

Inherited from Middle French cul, from Old French cul, from Latin cūlus, from Proto-Indo-European *kuH-l-, zero-grade without s-mobile form of *(s)kewH- (“to cover”).

le beurre, l’argent du beurre et le cul de la crémière

Ils ont du cul.

(informal, France) good luck or good fortune


raisin

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


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


kif

Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic كيف (kīf), from Arabic كَيْف (kayf, “opiate”).


tabac

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.


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”).


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)


viognier

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”).


pétard

→ Italian: petardo

→ Spanish: petardo

(attributive, of colors) bright; shiny; eyecatching


dature

Alternative form of datura (“datura”) (Datura)


datura

Dictionnaire de la langue française
Littré
Émile Littré

Borrowed from Portuguese, ultimately from Sanskrit धत्तूर (dhattūra). Littré's Dictionnaire de la langue française states it comes from Arabic and ultimately from Persian.


stramonium

(botany) Alternative form of stramoine (“stramonium”)


tamien

Mental de charbonneur, j’me fais un gros tamien, et j’me poste à 10 heures

2022 August 15, “Vida” (1:57 from the start), Zitoune (lyrics):

Mindset of a coaler, I make myself a big spliff, then I stand myself up for 10 hours


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


stramoine

Datura stramonium
Datura stramonium#Translingual


manoque

époularder

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

manoquage

manoquer (“to put the tobacco into rolls”)


herbe du diable

herbe du diable f (plural herbes du diable)

Synonym of stramoine (“jimsonweed”) (Datura stramonium)


double cloche

double cloche f (plural doubles cloches)


pomme épineuse

pomme épineuse f (plural pommes épineuses)


pomme épineuse d'Égypte

pomme épineuse d’Égypte f (plural pommes épineuses d’Égypte)

pomme épineuse d’ Égypte (canonical feminine)
pommes épineuses d’Égypte (plural)


datura fastueux

datura fastueux m (plural daturas fastueux)


double-cloche

double-cloche f (plural doubles-cloches)


herbe au diable

herbe au diable f (plural herbes au diable)


pétou

J’rallume le pétou en pacha (pas ça)

2023 July 14, Larry (lyrics and music), “EN PÉPÉ 5”, 0:42:


dature inoffensive

dature inoffensive f (plural datures inoffensives)

Datura innoxia
Datura innoxia#Translingual

Delachaux et Niestlé
w:fr:Delachaux et Niestlé


herbe à Sitarane

herbe à Sitarane f (plural herbes à Sitarane)

After Sitarane, a famous thief and murderer from Réunion.

dature inoffensive
dature inoffensive#French

Synonym of dature inoffensive (Datura innoxia Mill.)