diction

Borrowed from Latin dictiōnem, from dictus, past participle of dicere (“to speak”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to show, point out”).


tableau

Haitian Creole: tablo

→ English: tableau

→ German: Tableau

→ Greek: ταμπλό (tampló)

→ Romanian: tablou

→ Russian: табло́ (tabló)

→ Turkish: tablo

→ Ukrainian: табло́ (tabló)


spot

(cinematography, theater) spotlight, spot


piste

→ Catalan: pista

→ Dutch: piste

→ English: piste

→ German: Piste

→ Greek: πίστα (písta)

→ Persian: پیست (pist)

→ Turkish: pist

Borrowed from Italian pista, variant of pesta (“footprint”).


clown

fr-noun

clown m (plural clowns, feminine clownesse)


dramaturge

dramaturge m or f by sense (plural dramaturges)

dramatij

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek δραματουργός (dramatourgós).

lbor

δραματουργός

(theater) playwright (writer of plays for the theatre)


motif

→ Danish: motiv

→ English: motif

→ German: Motiv
→ Romanian: motiv

→ Norwegian Bokmål: motiv

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: motiv

→ Swedish: motiv

→ Turkish: motif

Learned borrowing from Late Latin mōtivus.

lbor+

pour des motifs qui échappent à tout le monde, à toute logique, à notre appréciation

for motives that escape everyone, all logic, our appreciation

Pour un motif qui m’échappe, un certain merdeux s’est mis à feindre de s’intéresser à mon bien-etre.

For some motive that escapes me, some shit started pretending to be interested in my well-being.

Bien que la faim et le dénûment nous tourmentassent quelquefois, et même à peu près toujours, rien ne nous causait autant de tourment que d’être témoins des cruautés inouïes que mon maître exerçait sur les chrétiens. Chaque jour il en faisait pendre quelqu’un ; on empalait celui-là, on coupait les oreilles à celui-ci, et cela pour si peu de chose, ou plutôt tellement sans motif, que les Turcs eux-mêmes reconnaissaient qu’il ne faisait le mal que pour le faire, et parce que son humeur naturelle le portait à être le meurtrier de tout le genre humain.

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

Even though hunger and destitution tormented us sometime, and even almost always, nothing caused us as much torment as being witnesses to the unheard-of cruelties that my master exercised on the Christians. Every day, he made someone hang; they impaled that one, they cut off this one's ears, and this for so little stuff, or rather so much without motive, that the Turks themselves recognized that he only did harm for the sake of it, and because his natural temperament brought him to be the murderer of the whole human race.


loge

→ Catalan: llotja
→ Portuguese: loja

→ German: Loge

→ Dutch: loge

→ Macedonian: ложа (loža)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: losje

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: losje

→ Polish: loża

→ Russian: ло́жа (lóža)

→ Swedish: loge

→ Ukrainian: ло́жа (lóža)

From Old French, from Frankish *laubijā (“arbour, protective roof, shelter made of foliage”). The Masonic sense developed under influence from English lodge.

der

(theater, television) dressing room (a room in a theatre or other performance venue in which performers may change costumes and apply makeup)


farce

→ Catalan: farsa

→ Danish: fars

→ German: Farce

→ Italian: farsa

→ Russian: фарш (farš)

→ Spanish: farsa

→ Swedish: fars

Dictionnaire de la langue française
Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch
Émile Littré

Inherited from Old French farse, from Medieval Latin farsa, feminine perfect passive participle from farcīre, from farciō (“to stuff”). The theatre sense alludes to the pleasant and varied character of certain stuffed food items.


soubrette

(theater) maid (female servant (role) in a theatrical performance)


cirque

→ Arabic: سِيرْك (sīrk)

→ English: cirque

→ Turkish: sirk


acteur

fr-noun

acteur m (plural acteurs, feminine actrice)

→ German: Akteur

→ Romanian: actor

→ Ottoman Turkish: آقتور (aktör)

Turkish: aktör

Inherited from Middle French acteur, from Latin actor.


catharsis

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κάθαρσις (kátharsis).


merde

Inherited from Middle French merde, from Old French merde, from Latin merda.


vaudeville

→ Armenian: վոդևիլ (vodewil)

→ Belarusian: вадэвіль (vadevilʹ)

→ Bulgarian: водевил (vodevil)

→ Catalan: vodevil

→ Danish: vaudeville

desctree

→ English: vaudeville
→ Tagalog: bodabil

→ Georgian: ვოდევილი (vodevili)

→ German: Vaudeville

→ Greek: βοντβίλ (vontvíl)

→ Hebrew: ווֹדְווִיל (vodevil)

→ Hindi: वडेविल (vaḍevil)

→ Japanese: ヴォードヴィル (vōdoviru)

→ Korean: 보더빌 (bodeobil)

→ Latvian: vodeviļa

→ Lithuanian: vodevilis

→ Macedonian: водвиль

→ Polish: wodewil

→ Portuguese: vaudeville

→ Romanian: vodevil

→ Russian: водеви́ль (vodevílʹ)

→ Serbo-Croatian: во̀двӣљ (vòdvīlj)

→ Spanish: vodevil

→ Swedish: vådevill

→ Ottoman Turkish: وودویل (vodvil)

Turkish: vodvil

→ Ukrainian: водеві́ль (vodevílʹ)

Unclear. Possibly a corruption of voix de ville (“voice of the city”), or vallée de Vire (“valley of the (river) Vire”).

À ses moments perdus, Fernand écrivait, avec ses camarades de bureau, un tiers ou un sixième de vaudeville .

1858, Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail, L'Héritage mystérieux:

"In his idle moments Fernand would write a scene or two of vaudeville with his colleagues from the office."


Marianne

a female given name, a combination of Marie and Anne


scène

Inherited from Middle French scene (first attested in 1486), borrowed from Latin scaena, scena, from Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ, “scene, stage”).

der

La scène est dans un jardin.

scene (all senses)
location of a play's plot

la scène politique nationale

Les femmes ont longtemps été totalement absentes de l’histoire des relations internationales et de la scène diplomatique. A cet égard, le siècle qui s’achève ne marque, au mieux, que l’infléchissement tardif d’un phénomène qui connut, au XIXe siècle, une sorte d’apogée.

2000, Françoise Gaspard, “Les femmes dans les relations internationales [Women in international relations]”, in Politique étrangère, volume 65, numbers 3—4, page 731:

Women have long been totally absent from the history of international relations and from the diplomatic scene. In this regard, the century which now comes to an end merely marks, at best, a belated change from a phenomenon which reached a certain apogee in the nineteenth century.

location, literal or figurative, of any event

la troisième scène du quatrième acte

scene (all senses)
section of an act in a play

Il était ému par la scène.

une scène qui la bouleversa

scene, sight; sequence of (dramatic or interesting) events

Elle lui a fait une scène terrible à propos de cette décision, prise sans son accord.

She made a terrible scene towards him about this decision he had taken without her agreement.

scene; display of strong (negative) emotion; fight, quarrel

Corneille, Racine, Molière, Voltaire ont illustré la scène française.
Corneille, Racine, Molière, Voltaire have glorified French theater.


coulisse

→ Catalan: colís

→ Dutch: coulisse

→ English: coulisse

→ German: Kulisse

→ Polish: kulisa

→ Crimean Tatar: kulisa

→ Hungarian: kulissza

→ Spanish: colisa

→ Swedish: kuliss


héros

fr-noun

héros m (plural héros, feminine héroïne)

14th century, borrowed from Latin hērōs, from Ancient Greek ἥρως (hḗrōs). The aspiration is secondary and originated in the desire to avoid les héros sounding like les zéros. The related words remain unaspirated.

le héros de notre temps

mourir en héros


burlesque

→ English: burlesque

→ German: burlesk

→ Romanian: burlesc

→ Turkish: burlesk

Borrowed from Italian burlesco (“parodic”).


charger

charger (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
chargeant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
chargé (participle past)
charge (first-person indicative present singular)
charges (indicative present second-person singular)
charge (indicative present singular third-person)
chargeons (first-person indicative plural present)
chargez (indicative plural present second-person)
chargent (indicative plural present third-person)
chargeais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
chargeais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
chargeait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
chargions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
chargiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
chargeaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
chargeai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
chargeas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
chargea (historic indicative past singular third-person)
chargeâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
chargeâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
chargèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
chargerai (first-person future indicative singular)
chargeras (future indicative second-person singular)
chargera (future indicative singular third-person)
chargerons (first-person future indicative plural)
chargerez (future indicative plural second-person)
chargeront (future indicative plural third-person)
chargerais (conditional first-person singular)
chargerais (conditional second-person singular)
chargerait (conditional singular third-person)
chargerions (conditional first-person plural)
chargeriez (conditional plural second-person)
chargeraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
charge (first-person present singular subjunctive)
charges (present second-person singular subjunctive)
charge (present singular subjunctive third-person)
chargions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
chargiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
chargent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
chargeasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
chargeasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
chargeât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
chargeassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
chargeassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
chargeassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
charge (imperative second-person singular)
chargeons (first-person imperative plural)
chargez (imperative plural second-person)

Esperanto: ŝarĝi

Persian: شارژ کردن (šârž kardan)

Inherited from Old French chargier, from Late Latin carricāre, from Latin carrus (“four-wheeled baggage wagon”). Compare Spanish cargar.


macaque

Haitian Creole: makak

→ Bulgarian: макак (makak)

→ English: macaque

→ German: Makake

→ Romanian: macac

Borrowed from Portuguese macaco, of uncertain origin (see macaco for more).


régisseur

fr-noun

régisseur m (plural régisseurs, feminine régisseuse)

régisseurs (plural)
régisseuse (feminine)

→ Danish: regissør

desctree

→ Dutch: regisseur
⇒ Afrikaans: regisseur
→ Indonesian: regisur

→ German: Regisseur

→ Norwegian Bokmål: regissør

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: regissør

→ Polish: reżyser

→ Russian: режиссёр (režissjór)
→ Armenian: ռեժիսոր (ṙežisor)
→ Azerbaijani: rejissor
→ Estonian: režissöör
→ Georgian: რეჟისორი (režisori)
→ Kazakh: режиссёр (rejisser)

→ Swedish: regissör

→ Turkish: rejisör


échasse

Inherited from Middle French eschesse, from Old French eschace (“crutch, stilt”), from Frankish *skakkjā, from Proto-Germanic *skakaną.

(ornithology) One of a number of stilt birds, not always directly corresponding to English stilt


parterre

→ Dutch: parterre

→ English: parterre

→ Greek: παρτέρι (partéri)

→ Polish: parter

→ Romanian: parter

→ Spanish: parterre

Inherited from Middle French [Term?]. Equivalent to par + terre.

the part of a theater between the stalls and the rear

(by extension) the members of a theater audience seated in the parterre


cheminée

→ German: Cheminée

→ Persian: شومینه (šomine)

→ Romanian: șemineu

→ Turkish: şömine

From Old French cheminee, from Late Latin [camera] camīnāta, from Latin camīnus (“furnace”), from Ancient Greek κάμῑνος (kámīnos).

(theater) large pipe containing ropes that serves to control theater backdrops


dénouement

→ English: dénouement (learned)

From dénouer (“to unknot”) + -ment, from Middle French desnouement, from the Old French verb desnoer (“to unknot”) + -ment, from the noun neu (“knot”), itself from Latin nōdus.


aparté

(theater) aside, stage whisper, soliloquy


parodie

Turkish: parodi


figurant

fr-noun

figurant m (plural figurants, feminine figurante)

→ Dutch: figurant


Pierrot

→ Japanese: ピエロ (piero)

→ Korean: 피에로 (piero)

From Pierre (“Peter”) + -ot (diminutive suffix).

af

a character from French pantomime; a buffoon in a loose white outfit


didascalie

Borrowed from Ancient Greek διδασκαλία (didaskalía).


comparse

fr-noun

comparse m or f by sense (plural comparses)

→ Czech: komparz


protagoniste

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πρωταγωνιστής (prōtagōnistḗs).

bor+

πρωταγωνιστής


bouffon

fr-noun

bouffon m (plural bouffons, feminine bouffonne)

Inherited from Middle French boufon, from Italian buffone.


drame

Borrowed from Latin drama, from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma).

drama (something entertaining or action-packed)

Quel drame épouvantable ce matin à Laval. Il n’y a rien de pire que d’avoir peur pour son enfant. Je pense aux enfants, aux parents et aux employés.

2023 February 8, François Legault, Twitter:

What a terrifying tragedy this morning at Laval. There's nothing worse than worrying for your child. My thoughts go out to the children, the parents, and the employees.


blaguer

blaguer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
blaguant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
blagué (participle past)
blague (first-person indicative present singular)
blagues (indicative present second-person singular)
blague (indicative present singular third-person)
blaguons (first-person indicative plural present)
blaguez (indicative plural present second-person)
blaguent (indicative plural present third-person)
blaguais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
blaguais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
blaguait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
blaguions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
blaguiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
blaguaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
blaguai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
blaguas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
blagua (historic indicative past singular third-person)
blaguâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
blaguâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
blaguèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
blaguerai (first-person future indicative singular)
blagueras (future indicative second-person singular)
blaguera (future indicative singular third-person)
blaguerons (first-person future indicative plural)
blaguerez (future indicative plural second-person)
blagueront (future indicative plural third-person)
blaguerais (conditional first-person singular)
blaguerais (conditional second-person singular)
blaguerait (conditional singular third-person)
blaguerions (conditional first-person plural)
blagueriez (conditional plural second-person)
blagueraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
blague (first-person present singular subjunctive)
blagues (present second-person singular subjunctive)
blague (present singular subjunctive third-person)
blaguions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
blaguiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
blaguent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
blaguasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
blaguasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
blaguât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
blaguassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
blaguassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
blaguassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
blague (imperative second-person singular)
blaguons (first-person imperative plural)
blaguez (imperative plural second-person)


blague

18th century, from Dutch balg. The sense “joke” (ca. 1800) from the notion of something puffed up, hence vain, fanciful.


antagoniste

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀνταγωνιστής (antagōnistḗs).

lbor

ἀνταγωνιστής


tragédie

→ Turkish: trajedi


accessoire

→ Bulgarian: аксесоар (aksesoar)

→ Dutch: accessoire

→ German: Accessoire

→ Greek: αξεσουάρ (axesouár)

→ Luxembourgish: Accessoire

desc

→ Norwegian Bokmål: accessoir, aksessoar

→ Russian: аксессуа́р (aksessuár)

→ Turkish: aksesuar

From Medieval Latin accessorius, as in the phrase accessorium sequitur principale (“the accessory follows the principal”). Possibly influenced by accidens (“falling down, something unfortunate happening”).


mème

Borrowed from English meme, shortened from mimeme, coined from Ancient Greek μῑμέομαι (mīméomai).

Son avenir, le duo le voit d’ailleurs plutôt sur Instagram que sur Facebook, la plate-forme d’échange d’images étant devenue le nouvel eldorado du mème.

2020 October 7, Corentin Lamy, “« Mèmes décentralisés », ou l’humour Web qui se moque autant de Paris que de la province”, in Le Monde:

Incidentally, the pair think it has more of a future on Instagram than on Facebook, the image-sharing platform having become the new El Dorado of the meme.


continuité

From continu + -ité, or borrowed from Latin continuitātem.


trapèze

→ English: trapeze

→ Romanian: trapez

→ Turkish: trapez


scénario

fr-noun

scénario m (plural scénarios or scénarii)

→ Bulgarian: сцена́рий (scenárij)

→ Romanian: scenariu

→ Turkish: senaryo

Borrowed from Italian scenario, with an acute accent to indicate the pronunciation.


opéra comique

opéra comique m (plural opéras comiques)


souffleur

souffleur m (plural souffleurs, feminine souffleuse)

souffleurs (plural)
souffleuse (feminine)

→ Czech: suflér

→ Dutch: souffleur

→ Polish: sufler

→ Romanian: sufleor

→ Russian: суфлёр (sufljór)

→ Turkish: suflör


opéra

Borrowed from Italian opera, from Latin opera. Doublet of œuvre and opus.


échassier

any of a number of wading birds. (Note that this does not always directly correspond to English wading bird.)


décor

desctree

→ Dutch: decor
Afrikaans: dekor
→ Indonesian: dekor

→ English: decor, décor

→ German: Dekor
→ Polish: dekor

→ Greek: ντεκόρ (ntekór)

→ Italian: decoro

→ Norwegian Bokmål: dekor

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: dekor

→ Romanian: decor

→ Russian: декор (dekor)

→ Turkish: dekor


il était une fois

LL-Q150 (fra)-Lyokoï-il était une fois.wav

there was once…; once upon a time, there was… (traditional beginning of children’s stories, especially fairy tales)


Faucheuse

Grim Reaper (a personification of Death as a cloaked old man or a skeleton, usually carrying a scythe)


incarner

incarner (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
incarnant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
incarné (participle past)
incarne (first-person indicative present singular)
incarnes (indicative present second-person singular)
incarne (indicative present singular third-person)
incarnons (first-person indicative plural present)
incarnez (indicative plural present second-person)
incarnent (indicative plural present third-person)
incarnais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
incarnais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
incarnait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
incarnions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
incarniez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
incarnaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
incarnai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
incarnas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
incarna (historic indicative past singular third-person)
incarnâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
incarnâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
incarnèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
incarnerai (first-person future indicative singular)
incarneras (future indicative second-person singular)
incarnera (future indicative singular third-person)
incarnerons (first-person future indicative plural)
incarnerez (future indicative plural second-person)
incarneront (future indicative plural third-person)
incarnerais (conditional first-person singular)
incarnerais (conditional second-person singular)
incarnerait (conditional singular third-person)
incarnerions (conditional first-person plural)
incarneriez (conditional plural second-person)
incarneraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
incarne (first-person present singular subjunctive)
incarnes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
incarne (present singular subjunctive third-person)
incarnions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
incarniez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
incarnent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
incarnasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
incarnasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
incarnât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
incarnassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
incarnassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
incarnassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
incarne (imperative second-person singular)
incarnons (first-person imperative plural)
incarnez (imperative plural second-person)

→ Turkish: enkarne (via past participle)

Inherited from Middle French incarner, borrowed (1372) from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin incarnāre, from Latin carō. Cf. also the Old French form encharner.

(theater) to play (act as a certain character)


contorsionniste

fr-noun

contorsionniste m or f by sense (plural contorsionnistes)


réplique

→ Finnish: repliikki

→ German: Replik
→ Czech: replika

→ Indonesian: replik

→ Swedish: replik

→ Turkish: replik


nô

nô m (countable and uncountable, plural nôs)

(uncountable) noh (Japanese theatrical genre)


péripétie

From Ancient Greek περιπέτεια (peripéteia).

peripeteia (sudden change in circumstances)


soliloque

soliloquy (act of a character speaking to himself)


trapéziste

trapéziste m or f by sense (plural trapézistes)


narrateur

narrateur m (plural narrateurs, feminine narratrice)

narrateurs (plural)
narratrice (feminine)


comédie de situation

comédie de situation f (plural comédies de situation)

LL-Q150 (fra)-Lyokoï-comédie de situation.wav

sitcom, situation comedy (episodic comedy television program)


funambulisme

tightrope walking (acrobatic feat of walking on a tightrope)


funambule

funambule m or f by sense (plural funambules)

tightrope walker (acrobat who practices tightrope walking)


amphithéâtre

Learned borrowing from Latin amphitheātrum, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀμφιθέᾱτρον (amphithéātron).


entracte

→ English: entr'acte

desctree

→ Russian: антракт (antrakt)
→ Azerbaijani: antrakt
→ Georgian: ანტრაქტი (anṭrakṭi)

→ Turkish: antrakt


rebondissement

fr-noun

rebondissement m (plural rebondissements)


toile de fond

(theater) backdrop, background, backcloth (painted scenery at the back of a stage)


cothurne

Learned borrowing from Latin cothurnus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek κόθορνος (kóthornos).

Coordinate term: socque

(theater, Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece) cothurnus


fil de fer

fil de fer m (countable and uncountable, plural fils de fer)


fil-de-fériste

fil-de-fériste m or f by sense (plural fil-de-féristes)

From fil de fer (“wirewalking”) + -iste.


opérette

→ Arabic: أوبريت (ʔōberēt)

→ Persian: اپرت (operet)

→ Turkish: operet


Charlot

From Charlie + -ot, after Charlie Chaplin.

[…] il était travesti en Charlot et tenait à la main une petite moustache noire qu’il enduisait de colle.

[…] he was dressed up as Charlie Chaplin and holding a small black moustache, which he was coating with glue.

(theater, film) the Tramp (character portrayed by Charlie Chaplin)


socque

Coordinate term: cothurne

(theater, Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece) sock


comédie musicale

comédie musicale f (plural comédies musicales)

desc

کمدی موزیکال

→ Persian: کمدی موزیکال (komedi muzikâl)


Azraël

Borrowed from Arabic عِزْرَائِيل (ʕizrāʔīl).

bor+

1963, Nicolas Bouvier, L'Usage du Monde, 2005 ed., Payot & Rivages, p. 166; translated 1992 by Robyn Marsack as The Way of the World, 2011 ed., Eland

Kurds who had trespassed into the town ran great risk of being placed on the ground with their faces in the earth instead of being put upright in the grave with their faces towards Mecca, as custom required. Azriel, the Angel of Death, would take offence at their unseemly position and refuse them entrance to Paradise.

Les Kurdes trépassés dans la ville couraient grand risque d’être enterrés à plat et face contre terre, au lieu d’être installés dans la fosse, le visage tourné contre La Mecque, comme l’exige la coutume. Ainsi Azraël, l’ange de la mort, blessé par cette posture inconvenante, leur refuserait l’accès au paradis.


circassien

fr-adj

circassien (feminine circassienne, masculine plural circassiens, feminine plural circassiennes)

circassienne (feminine)
circassiens (masculine plural)
circassiennes (feminine plural)

From the 1970s, due to a resemblance with the word cirque.


avant-scène

→ Bulgarian: ава́нсце́на (avánscéna)

→ Romanian: avanscenă

→ Polish: awanscena

→ Ukrainian: авансце́на (avanscéna)


funambuler

funambuler (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
funambulant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
funambulé (participle past)
funambule (first-person indicative present singular)
funambules (indicative present second-person singular)
funambule (indicative present singular third-person)
funambulons (first-person indicative plural present)
funambulez (indicative plural present second-person)
funambulent (indicative plural present third-person)
funambulais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
funambulais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
funambulait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
funambulions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
funambuliez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
funambulaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
funambulai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
funambulas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
funambula (historic indicative past singular third-person)
funambulâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
funambulâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
funambulèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
funambulerai (first-person future indicative singular)
funambuleras (future indicative second-person singular)
funambulera (future indicative singular third-person)
funambulerons (first-person future indicative plural)
funambulerez (future indicative plural second-person)
funambuleront (future indicative plural third-person)
funambulerais (conditional first-person singular)
funambulerais (conditional second-person singular)
funambulerait (conditional singular third-person)
funambulerions (conditional first-person plural)
funambuleriez (conditional plural second-person)
funambuleraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
funambule (first-person present singular subjunctive)
funambules (present second-person singular subjunctive)
funambule (present singular subjunctive third-person)
funambulions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
funambuliez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
funambulent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
funambulasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
funambulasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
funambulât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
funambulassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
funambulassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
funambulassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
funambule (imperative second-person singular)
funambulons (first-person imperative plural)
funambulez (imperative plural second-person)


diégétique

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek διηγητικός (diēgētikós).


je te dis merde

(vulgar, theater, slang, idiomatic) break a leg! good luck!


diégèse

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek διήγησις (diḗgēsis).


discours direct

fr-noun

discours direct m (usually uncountable, plural discours directs)


discours indirect

discours indirect m (usually uncountable, plural discours indirects)

(grammar, narratology) reported speech, indirect speech


cracheur de feu

cracheur de feu m (plural cracheurs de feu)

fire-breather (performer pretending to beltch out fire)


antihéroïque

From anti- + héroïque or antihéros + -ique.


fil conducteur

fil conducteur m (plural fils conducteurs)

(figuratively) throughline, common thread, central theme


fr-phrase

ils vécurent heureux et eurent beaucoup d'enfants

ils vécurent heureux et eurent beaucoup d’enfants

/il ve.ky.ʁ(ə).t‿ø.ʁø e yʁ bo.ku d‿ɑ̃.fɑ̃/

Literally, “they lived happily and had many children”.

lit

they lived happily ever after (used at the end of fairy tales)


entrée des artistes

fr-noun

entrée des artistes f (plural entrées des artistes)


planter le décor

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fil rouge

Literally “red thread.” Probably a calque of German roter Faden (literally “red thread”).

calque

(figuratively) common thread, central theme, governing principle


discours indirect libre

free indirect speech
free indirect speech


baisser de rideau

fr-noun

baisser de rideau m (plural baissers de rideau)

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(theater) final curtain (the last time the curtain is lowered, after a performance and any curtain calls)


jeune premier

jeune premier m (plural jeunes premiers)

→ English: jeune premier

→ Romanian: june prim (calque)

→ Turkish: jönprömiye

(theater) young actor playing young-lover roles


monter sur les planches

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(figuratively, theater) to perform in a theatrical play, to tread the boards


solution de continuité

solution de continuité f (plural solutions de continuité)

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The word solution must be understood in its first meaning of "dissolution, rupture"; hence "rupture of continuity".
Cognate with Spanish solución de continuidad.

(formal) gap, break, interruption, discontinuity


faire son entrée

to enter, to make one's entrance, to make an entrance


opéra-féerie

desc

опера-феерия

→ Russian: опера-феерия (opera-fejerija)


blague de cul

(informal, slightly vulgar) dirty joke, sexual joke


entrer en scène

/ɑ̃.tʁe.ʁ‿ɑ̃ sɛn/

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(theater) to come on (to appear on a stage)


unité de lieu

(theater, literature) unity of place (the principle, in classical theater, that the entirety of a play should take place in only one setting)


unité de temps

fr-noun

unité de temps f (countable and uncountable, plural unités de temps)

(theater, literature, uncountable) unity of time (classical unity that states that the action of a play should take place over no more than 24 hours)


Molière

Alternative form: molière

Le comédien reprend, à compter du 21 juin au théâtre Marigny à Paris, son seul en scène « Un soir de gala », qui lui a valu un Molière de l’humour.

2022 June 16, Clément Ghys, “Vincent Dedienne : « On se sent bien quand on fait rire les gens »”, in Le Monde.fr:

(theater, France) A Molière award, the highest honour for theater productions in France.


faire le pitre

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Dans sa famille, ils étaient coincés et strictes, mais lui avait malgré décidé de danser et faire le pitre dans la vie.

2016, Gaël Faye, Petit Pays [Small Country]:

In his family, they were all stuck up and strict, but despite that he decided to dance and clown around in his life.


discours rapporté

discours rapporté m (usually uncountable, plural discours rapportés)


avaleur de sabre

avaleur de sabre m (plural avaleurs de sabre, feminine avaleuse de sabre)

avaleurs de sabre (plural)
avaleuse de sabre (feminine)


unité d'action

(theater, literature) unity of action (the rule, in classical theater, according to which a play should have one action that it follows, with minimal subplots)


narrateur omniscient

narrateur omniscient m (plural narrateurs omniscients)


lever de rideau

lever de rideau m (plural levers de rideau)

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Guignol

Guignol m (countable and uncountable, plural Guignols)

Originated in Lyon, from guigner (“to wink”) + -ol; also the name of the main character.

Gendarme et Guignol.

(theater) the name of a puppet character


demi-caractère

→ English: demi-caractère

→ English: demicharacter (calque)

demi- (“demi-”) + caractère (“character”)

af

D’ailleurs porterez-vous Carmen à l’Opéra, sans reconnaître que tout l’en éloigne, ses proportions et son style, même quand il s’élève le plus ? Tous les chefs-d’œuvres ne sont pas de la même taille, et Carmen serait trop au large dans le cadre de Guillaume Tell ou des Huguenots. Voyons donc l’opéra comique de Bizet tel qu’il est : œuvre de demi-caractère et de juste milieu, faite à la mesure et pour la gloire du théâtre où elle est née.

1886, Camille Bellaigue, “Un siècle de musique française”, in Revue des deux mondes, page 193:

By the way, would you take [Bizet's opera] Carmen to the [Paris] Opera, without acknowledging that everything keeps it away from it, its proportions and its style, even when it elevates itself the most? All masterworks are not of the same size, and Carmen would be too much at large in the frame of Guillaume Tell or of Les Huguenots. Let us look at Bizet's comic opera as it is: a work of demi-caractère and just middle, made to the measure and for the glory of [the Opéra-Comique] where it was born.


premier rôle

Coordinate term: second rôle


seul en scène

(chiefly theater) one-man show, solo performance