See couscous in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "couscous"
},
{
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "couscous"
}
],
"etymology_links": [
[
"كُسْكُس",
"كسكس#Arabic"
]
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "ar",
"3": "كُسْكُس"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Arabic كُسْكُس (kuskus)",
"name": "bor+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "ber"
},
"expansion": "Berber",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Arabic كُسْكُس (kuskus), from a Berber language.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "cous-cous",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "couscoussou",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "kesksou",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m"
},
"expansion": "couscous m (invariable)",
"name": "fr-noun"
}
],
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 5 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "couscousserie"
},
{
"word": "couscoussier"
},
{
"word": "couscoussière"
}
],
"glosses": [
"couscous"
],
"id": "en-couscous-fr-noun-Q4KSQzuc",
"links": [
[
"couscous",
"couscous#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"invariable",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/kus.kus/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-couscous.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/53/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Lepticed7-couscous.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Lepticed7-couscous.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/53/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Lepticed7-couscous.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Lepticed7-couscous.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"France",
"Toulouse"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-couscous.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/84/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-couscous.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-couscous.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/84/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-couscous.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-couscous.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"France",
"Vosges"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-couscous.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/07/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Poslovitch-couscous.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Poslovitch-couscous.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/07/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Poslovitch-couscous.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Poslovitch-couscous.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"France",
"Vosges"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-couscous.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3f/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-couscous.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-couscous.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3f/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-couscous.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-couscous.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"France",
"Lyon"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-us"
}
],
"word": "couscous"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "couscousserie"
},
{
"word": "couscoussier"
},
{
"word": "couscoussière"
}
],
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "couscous"
},
{
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "couscous"
}
],
"etymology_links": [
[
"كُسْكُس",
"كسكس#Arabic"
]
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "ar",
"3": "كُسْكُس"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Arabic كُسْكُس (kuskus)",
"name": "bor+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "ber"
},
"expansion": "Berber",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Arabic كُسْكُس (kuskus), from a Berber language.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "cous-cous",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "couscoussou",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "kesksou",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m"
},
"expansion": "couscous m (invariable)",
"name": "fr-noun"
}
],
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"French 2-syllable words",
"French countable nouns",
"French entries with incorrect language header",
"French indeclinable nouns",
"French lemmas",
"French masculine nouns",
"French nouns",
"French terms borrowed from Arabic",
"French terms derived from Arabic",
"French terms derived from Berber languages",
"French terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:French/us",
"Rhymes:French/us/2 syllables"
],
"glosses": [
"couscous"
],
"links": [
[
"couscous",
"couscous#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"invariable",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/kus.kus/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-couscous.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/53/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Lepticed7-couscous.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Lepticed7-couscous.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/53/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Lepticed7-couscous.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Lepticed7-couscous.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"France",
"Toulouse"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-couscous.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/84/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-couscous.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-couscous.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/84/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-couscous.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-couscous.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"France",
"Vosges"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-couscous.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/07/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Poslovitch-couscous.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Poslovitch-couscous.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/07/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Poslovitch-couscous.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Poslovitch-couscous.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"France",
"Vosges"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-couscous.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3f/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-couscous.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-couscous.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3f/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-couscous.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-couscous.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"France",
"Lyon"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-us"
}
],
"word": "couscous"
}
Download raw JSONL data for couscous meaning in French (3.2kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable French dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (1a05e46 and e3d6d4e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.