"flanc" meaning in French

See flanc in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /flɑ̃/ Audio: Fr-flanc.ogg , LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-flanc.wav [France, Vosges], LL-Q150 (fra)-Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick-flanc.wav [France] (note: Somain) Forms: flancs [plural]
Etymology: Inherited from Middle French and Old French flanc, from Frankish *hlanku. Cognate with Italian fianco. Etymology templates: {{dercat|fr|gem|frk|gmw-pro|gem-pro|ine-pro}}, {{ety|fr|:inh|frm:flanc<ety:inh<fro:flanc>>}} [Appendix:Glossary#loanword|Borrowed]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Frankish", "term" : "*hlanku", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "frk" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "Old French", "term" : "flanc", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "fro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Middle French", "term" : "flanc", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "frm" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "French", "term" : "flanc", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "fr" }" data-lang="fr" data-title="flanc">, {{yesno||i|I}} I, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|frm|-|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Middle French, {{inh+|fr|frm|-}} Inherited from Middle French, {{inh|fr|fro|flanc}} Old French flanc, {{der|fr|frk|*hlanku}} Frankish *hlanku, {{cog|it|fianco}} Italian fianco Head templates: {{fr-noun|m}} flanc m (plural flancs)
  1. side (of person); side, flank (of animal) Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-flanc-fr-noun-2cu~BalX Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 19 34 7 40
  2. (military) flank Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-flanc-fr-noun-j-yIJofJ Categories (other): Military, French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 19 34 7 40 Topics: government, military, politics, war
  3. side, slope (of mountain etc.) Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-flanc-fr-noun-kB17R2PH
  4. (heraldry) flaunch Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-flanc-fr-noun-5XA9Xk9J Categories (other): Heraldic charges, Pages with 6 entries, Pages with entries, French entries with etymon, French entries with incorrect language header, Pages using etymon with no ID, Pages with etymon Disambiguation of Pages with 6 entries: 11 13 16 7 13 9 30 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 7 16 19 5 9 6 38 Disambiguation of French entries with etymon: 13 28 9 50 Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 19 34 7 40 Disambiguation of Pages using etymon with no ID: 10 19 12 58 Disambiguation of Pages with etymon: 10 19 12 58 Topics: government, heraldry, hobbies, lifestyle, monarchy, nobility, politics
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: prêter le flanc, tirer au flanc Related terms: flanquer

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable French dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-07-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-07-06 using wiktextract (e62056b and e7887d5). 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.