flanc

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈflaŋ]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈflaŋk]

flanc m (plural flancs)

1. flank

• flanquejar

• “flanc”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “flanc”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “flanc” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “flanc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• flans pl (Old Beaujolais)
• flan (Savoyard)
• flan (Valdôtain)

flanc (ORB, narrow)

1. alternative form of fllanc (“side”)

• Stich, Dominique (2001) Francoprovençal: Proposition d'une orthographe supra-dialectale standardisée (Thesis)‎^[1], University of Paris, page 587

Inherited from Middle French and Old French flanc, from Frankish *hlanka, from Proto-Germanic *hlankō. Cognate with Italian fianco.

• IPA^(key): /flɑ̃/

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flanc m (plural flancs)

1. side (of person); side, flank (of animal)
2. (military) flank
3. side, slope (of mountain etc.)
4. (heraldry) flaunch

• prêter le flanc
• tirer au flanc

• flanquer

• → Catalan: flanc
• → Dutch: flank
• → German: Flanke
• → Portuguese: flanco
• → Romanian: flanc
• → Spanish: flanco

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

From Frankish *hlanka, from Proto-Germanic *hlankō. More at English flank.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflank/
• Rhymes: -ank

flanc oblique singular, m (oblique plural flans, nominative singular flans, nominative plural flanc)

1. side; flank (anatomy, side of a person)
   • 12^th Century, Unknown, Raoul de Cambrai:

     El flanc senestre li a l'espié bagnié

     He bathed this sword in his left side

• Middle French: flanc
  • French: flanc (see there for further descendants)
  • Jersey Norman: flianc
• → Franco-Provençal: fllanc, hlyon, lyon, hyan, flian, flanc, flans, flan, flan
• → Italian: fianco
• → Middle English: flanc, flanke, flaunke
  • English: flank
  • Scots: flank

Borrowed from French flanc.

flanc n (plural flancuri)

1. flank