béton
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
béton m (plural bétons)
Descendants
- Estonian: betoon
- Finnish: betoni
- German: Beton m
- Greek: μπετόν n (betón)
- Hungarian: beton
- Luxembourgish: Bëtong m
- Macedonian: бетон m (beton)
- Norwegian Bokmål: betong m
- Norwegian Nynorsk: betong m
- Romanian: beton n
- Russian: бетон m (beton)
- Serbo-Croatian: beton m / бетон m
- Swedish: betong c
- Vietnamese: bê tông
Etymology 2
Verlan form of tomber (“to fall, to drop”)
Verb
béton
- (Verlan, back slang) to drop
Usage notes
This verb is only used in the infinitive, and almost exclusively as part of the phrase laisser béton, which can be translated as “drop it” or “forget it”
Anagrams
Further reading
- “béton”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.