baleine
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See also: baleiné
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Paris, standard French) IPA(key): /ba.lɛn/
- (Meridional French) IPA(key): /ba.ˈlɛ.nə/
- (Montréal, Western Quebec, Ontario) IPA(key): /ba.lɛːn/
- (Québec, Eastern Quebec) IPA(key): /ba.lɛn/
Audio (France); “une baleine” [yn bäˈlɛn]: (file) Audio (Quebec, Estrie); [baˈlɛ̃ɪ̯̃nə̆]: (file) Audio (Canada (Shawinigan)): (file) Audio (Switzerland (Valais)): (file) Audio (France (Toulouse)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Saint-Étienne)): (file) Audio (France (Lyon)): (file) Audio (France (Somain)): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛn
- Homophones: baleinent, baleines
Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Old French baleine, borrowed from Latin bālaena, from Ancient Greek φάλαινα (phálaina).
Noun
[edit]baleine f (plural baleines)
- whale (mammal)
- whalebone, bone; stay (prop for clothing, in particular corsets)
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, chapter 1, in Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, first part:
- Ovoïde et renflée de baleines, elle commençait par trois boudins circulaires ; puis s’alternaient, séparés par une bande rouge, des losanges de velours et de poils de lapin ; venait ensuite une façon de sac qui se terminait par un polygone cartonné, couvert d’une broderie en soutache compliquée, et d’où pendait au bout d’un long cordon trop mince, un petit croisillon de fils d’or, en manière de gland.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (informal, offensive) landwhale
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]baleine
- inflection of baleiner:
Further reading
[edit]- “baleine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Anagrams
[edit]Old French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Latin bālaena, from Ancient Greek φάλαινα (phálaina)
Noun
[edit]baleine oblique singular, f (oblique plural baleines, nominative singular baleine, nominative plural baleines)
- whale (mammal)
Descendants
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