faubourg

English

WOTD – 13 May 2011

Etymology

Borrowed from French faubourg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfəʊbʊəɡ/ (or as French, below)

Noun

faubourg (plural faubourgs)

1. An outlying part of a city or town, beyond the walls; a suburb, especially of Paris.
   • 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me. (Penguin 2001, page 81:

     By the time that I was quite clear of the city's unlovely faubourgs and purlieus I needed petrol: the Silver Ghost is a lovely car but its best friend would have to admit that its m.'s per g. are few.

Translations

an outlying part of a city or town

• Bulgarian: предградие (bg) n (predgradie)
• Finnish: esikaupunki (fi)
• French:

  Middle French: fauxbourg m, forsbourg m

  Old French: forsborc m

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• Polish: przedmieście (pl) n
• Russian: предме́стье (ru) n (predméstʹje), при́город (ru) m (prígorod)
• Spanish: extramuros

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French fors bourg (“settlement outside the ramparts”), from Old French fors (“outside”) + bourg (“town”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fo.buʁ/

Noun

faubourg m (plural faubourgs)

1. suburb

Further reading

• “faubourg”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.