baleine

Inherited from Old French baleine, borrowed from Latin bālaena, from Ancient Greek φάλαινα (phálaina).

• IPA^(key): /ba.lɛ(ː)n/

  • Audio (France); “une baleine” [yn bäˈlɛn]:

    (file)

  • (Eastern Quebec) IPA^(key): [baˈlɛn]
  • (Western Quebec) IPA^(key): [baˈlẽɪ̯̃n], [-læ̃ɪ̯̃n], [-lãɪ̯̃n]

  • Audio (Quebec, Estrie); [baˈlɛ̃ɪ̯̃nə̆]:

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛn
• Homophones: baleinent, baleines

baleine f (plural baleines)

1. whale (mammal)
2. whalebone
3. (informal, offensive) landwhale

baleine

1. inflection of baleiner:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

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

• abélien

• balaine

Latin bālaena, from Ancient Greek φάλαινα (phálaina)

baleine oblique singular, f (oblique plural baleines, nominative singular baleine, nominative plural baleines)

1. whale (mammal)

• French: baleine
• → Middle English: baleyne, balena
  • English: baleen